Press releases in 1999

The imprisonment of Murray Hiebert, the Canadian journalist released today after four weeks in jail, highlights the Malaysian judiciary's failure to uphold and defend the right to freedom of...

Today the EU Council of Ministers will publish a Consolidated Report on the First Annual Review of the EU Code of Conduct on Arms Exports%link% . The UK Working Group on Arms1 welcomes this move but...

I am writing to you now in the light of the serious human rights crisis facing the people of East Timor today. The United Nations%link% í(UN) responsibility for the well-being of the East Timorese...

Systematic, widespread violations of human rights and international humanitarian law

East Timorese%link% pro-independence supporters who have been forced into relocation camps are

The Commonwealth should reinforce the recent recommendations of the United Nations%link% Human Rights Committee and give a clear signal to Cameroon that it must comply with its international human...

Candidates in Guatemalas presidential elections have within their reach a unique opportunity to address the wrongs of the past and strengthen democracy, Amnesty International said today.

Today's announcement by Roland Bartle, Deputy Chief Stipendiary Magistrate, that Augusto Pinochet can be extradited to Spain is the right outcome by human rights principles and by law, Amnesty...

The trial of three people sentenced to life imprisonment -- and some 30 others sentenced to prison terms of up to 20 years -- before a military tribunal in YaoundJ was fundamentally flawed, Amnesty...

As airlifts to Dili begin, Amnesty International warned today that refugees%link% in West Timor indicating their desire to return to East Timor%link% could face intimidation and attacks by militia...