Press releases in 2000

Many of the recommendations reflect current debate among legal reformers in China and have been made previously by the Committee. Amnesty International welcomes the Committee's call for the Chinese...

Research conducted this year in Sierra Leone by Amnesty International showed a reduction in mutilations, rapes and killings in areas where UN troops were deployed, although such abuses continued...

Since March a flawed justice system has continued to lead to human rights abuse. Executions have risen by 12 to a total of 25. Amputations have increased by four to a total of nine. Defects in the...

'Since the United States ratified the Convention against Torture in October 1994, its increasingly punitive approach towards offenders has continued to lead to practices which facilitate torture or...

In the context of Israel's proclaimed intention to withdraw by July 2000 from the Israeli-occupied zone of south Lebanon Amnesty International has called on all governments and armed groups in the...

' Torture and ill-treatment are not only carried out behind closed doors. It is inflicted in public as a deliberate humiliation and a warning to others. In recent years officials have even resorted to...

Those recently released were among 25 leaders of the APHC detained last September and October under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act(PSA). Amnesty International has regarded the APHC leaders as...

As the OAU July Summit to be held in Togo approaches, the government's pledge to human rights remains rhetorical as long as attacks against human rights activists and independent media continue...

'Governments around the world are continuing to control and suppress information by violating the human rights of the individuals whose job it is to report it. In some cases authorities are literally...

'The civilian population living in oil fields and surrounding areas has been deliberately targeted for massive human rights abuses - forced displacement, aerial bombardments, strafing villages from...