Press Releases

President Bush, currently holidaying in Texas, is being urged by the organisation to intervene to prevent an execution which is forbidden under international law and now unknown in nearly every other...

Since the announcement, there have been daily reports of violations, including extrajudicial killings, by the Macedonian police forces, while the ethnic Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA) has...

'Police are being urged to use whatever means necessary to deal with crime and are often allowed to use torture as a substitute for investigations, while action is rarely taken against the...

'Intimidation, harassment and violent attacks against indigenous communities are frequent occurrences in countries including Honduras, Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico and Venezuela,' the...

After the attack another armed group, Hamas, announced that there would be more such suicide attacks in the future. A spokesperson for the Israeli Government said that there would be a response to...

'Week-in-week-out human rights defenders struggle against a campaign of concerted pressure aimed at wearing them down. This campaign has assumed various forms, sometimes very crude, and has included...

'The verdict represents a significant contribution in achieving justice for the thousands of victims of summary executions in Srebrenica and their relatives,' Amnesty International said. This verdict...

The Israeli Air Force killed yesterday eight people, including two Children's rights and two journalists and wounded 15 others, including a human rights defender as they shot two missiles from an...

The organisation wrote to Italy's Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, expressing concern about the alleged human rights violations committed in the context of the G8 policing operation and asking for...

Amnesty International today called on Liberian government forces and Liberian armed opposition groups to immediately end widespread and gross abuses against unarmed civilians in Lofa County. In a...