Press releases in 1999

Darwin -- Amnesty International is concerned about reports of lack of co-operation by the Indonesian authorities into on-going investigations of killings in East Timor%link% , including that of...

Amnesty International has written to the Egyptian government to express its concern over the arrest and detention, earlier this month, of 20 Egyptian professionals for their alleged affiliation with...

One of the main architects of the international system of refugee protection is systematically violating the basic rights of asylum-seekers%link% , Amnesty International said today, in a new report...

Wednesday's executions in Saudi Arabia bring the total number of people put to death by the state this year to 100, Amnesty International said today.

Following the adoption of a resolution on East Timor%link% by the Commission on Human Rights at its special session in Geneva , Amnesty International said that it was now the UN%link% Secretary...

'I saw the most terrible thing that will stay in my memory forever. I saw a man being executed. He was a Timorese man.... His back was facing me and I could see that his hands were tied. He was naked...

As the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary on 1 October, many people in China are still being denied their fundamental human rights.

The British authorities have only two legal avenues open to them in the Pinochet

With two days before the East Timorese people are able to make their voices heard, the human rights situation in East Timor has worsened further, threatening not only the lives of the East Timorese...

Today's release of Lim Guan Eng -- a leading opposition figure and former parliamentarian -- after serving two-thirds of an 18 month sentence for 'exciting public disaffection with the administration...