Press releases in 2000

Leading human rights activist Akin Birdal has been sentenced to two one-year prison terms for speeches he gave on World Peace Day in 1995 and 1996. Just two days before he is due to go to prison again...

'Efforts to overcome the legacies of the past and to promote greater respect for human rights must continue, and past gains must be safeguarded,'the organisation said. 'Much remains to be done in the...

'Once more, human beings are being killed to score political points', Amnesty International said. 'The conflict in Kashmir has cost too many lives already. All sides, the government and the armed...

'African human rights defenders play a vital role in promoting and developing a greater awareness of human rights among regional intergovernmental organisations, governments and civil society,'...

The prisoners, including many prisoners of conscience , Ç who were detained at the beginning of 1998 and sentenced to prison terms in May after an unfair military trial for alleged involvement in...

After more than two years in pre-trial detention, Andrey Klimov, the 41-year-old member of parliament and businessman, started the first official day of his six-year sentence. After a controversial...

In a 7 February ruling in favour of two Zimbabwean human rights groups, the court ordered the President to release the reports of the 1982 and 1984 Commissions of Enquiry into thousands of cases of...

Amnesty International is urging the Government of Iran to immediately stop the forced return of Afghans from Iran without giving them the chance to apply for voluntary repatriation or have their...

Joseph Green is the 87th condemned prisoner since 1973 to be freed from death row after evidence of their innocence emerged. He had been convicted of murder and sentenced to die in Florida in 1993...

At a press conference today, Amnesty International renewed its call to the UN Commission on Human Rights to create a post of Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders This Special Rapporteur would...