Press releases in 2000

'This is a very exciting step for us -- it offers Amnesty International an opportunity to contribute more fully, here as elsewhere, to the movements in the Middle East actively engaged in building up...

Amnesty International has highlighted a growing catalogue of reported human rights abuses in Chechnya, including the rape of Chechen Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights in areas...

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Amnesty International is alarmed at the sharp increase in the number of executions and amputations that have taken place in Saudi Arabia this year and fears that at least 30 others currently in...

Two former hostages recently revealed that they witnessed the killing of Russian news agency ITAR-TASS photo journalist Vladimir Yatsina, kidnapped in Ingushetia by a Chechen group on 19 July 1999. At...

A Turkish penal court released the two policemen on Friday 3 March, after sentencing them to long prison terms and acquitted 18 others in the trial of the deaths of nine demonstrators, and the injury...

'In a pattern seen in East Timor last year, anyone who reports on the human rights situation is being targetted and driven away to ensure that there are no witnesses to the excesses of the security...

Several hundred political prisoners are being held in Cuba, most of whom were convicted after unfair trials Twenty eight of these have been recognized by Amnesty International as prisoners of...

In a letter sent to the New York City Police Commissioner, Howard Safir, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, the organisation expresses deep concern about the circumstances...

He was convicted on all but one of 20 charges against him and sentenced to 45 years' imprisonment, the highest sentence imposed so far, reflecting the gravity of the crimes committed and the accused's...