Press releases in 2000

'If all states which signed up to human rights treaties took the same view as Prime Minister John Howard, then we might as well tear them up,'Amnesty International said. 'The Prime Minister's blunt...

A Life in the Balance - The case of Mumia Abu-Jamal , a new Amnesty International report, highlights inadequate legal representation, legal proceedings that fail to reach minimum international...

'This case has great international significance and any doubts that the proceedings were influenced by political considerations had to be dispelled,' the human rights organisation said. 'In seeking...

'The case of Hafez Abu Sa'ada, General Secretary of the Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR), clearly suggests that the Egyptian authorities are trying to muzzle human rights defenders in...

The human rights organisation has decided to make public its submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee, submitted in October last year, in view of the government's...

In a new report, Amnesty International lists a chilling catalogue of violations, by both the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) (Maoist) and security forces since the CPN launched its 'people's war' four...

The regional Belarusian Social Democratic Party leader Gennady Garusev was yesterday sentenced to seven days' imprisonment for his part in a peaceful protest in January in the town of Borisov...

Ö Thousands of people deliberately and systematically killed, including thousands of ethnic Hazara civilians killed by Taleban guards in Mazar-e Sharif in 1998 Ö Thousands of civilians taken...

Amnesty International urges President Laurent-D»sir» Kabila to grant a presidential pardon sparing the lives of the 61 prisoners on death row and to impose an immediate and binding moratorium on any...

Russian television broadcast a video tape of a message from Babitsky on 8 February which stated that he was 'ok' but that he wanted to return home. The date and place of the message remain a mystery...