Press Releases
'Many of the provisions of the Convention do not conform with the obligations of member states of the Arab League under the UN Charter and international human rights law, and the Convention fails to...
In his new year address to the nation on 31 December 2001, President Kabila expressed his belief in the fundamental value of freedom. Meanwhile his police and security services continued to...
The statement came in the light of yesterday's verdict in the Patrick Genius case - exempting from trial the police officers who are alleged to have killed him - and of the murder of twelve...
Grigory Pasko was convicted on the basis of a secret military decree in a Vladivostok court in December 2001, and sentenced to four years in a labour camp. The prosecution alleged that he gathered...
Dr Mustafa Barghouti, President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, was arrested on 2 January 2002 after a press conference with the participation of an international delegation...
'Members of the judiciary, like other citizens, have the right to freedom of expression, as guaranteed by international standards on the independence of the judiciary,' Amnesty International said...
Amnesty International calls on the Security Council to take the lead in calling on the international community to provide adequate protection and assistance to internally displaced people in Liberia...
Amnesty International is also calling on the authorities to take immediate steps to guarantee his safety. The human rights organisation is urging an immediate, full and impartial investigation into...
'With the spotlight very much on Afghanistan, we cannot not let the torture, including rape, and killing of Chechen civilians by the Russian military go unnoticed,' said Amnesty International. Amnesty...
Muhammad Muhammad Suleiman Ibrahim El-Zari and Ahmed Hussein Mustafa Kamil Agiza were forcibly returned to Egypt by the Swedish authorities on 18 December. In Egypt both men are at grave risk of...