Press releases in 2000

'Guatemala should declare a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the {death penalty},' the organisation said. Tomás Cerrate Hernández and Luis Amílcar Cetino Pérez - convicted in...

'Guatemala should declare a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty ,' the organisation said. Tomás Cerrate Hernández and Luis Amílcar Cetino Pérez - convicted in...

Currently under consideration by the Government of India, the Prevention of Terrorism Bill bears many similarities to the former Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA). Amnesty...

The jurisdiction, composition and functioning of a court proposed by the government of Sierra Leone last week to the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General will not meet the need to bring to justice...

The winners are: · PRINT Robert Fisk for his series of articles on NATO bombings in Yugoslavia for The Independent · PERIODICALS Janine di Giovanni - The rape of Kosovo in the Times Magazine ·...

Ignacio Gómez, an investigative journalist from the Colombian newspaper El Espectador and director of the Press Freedom Foundation, has recently had to leave the country fearing for his safety after...

'He has been imprisoned because he has exercised his fundamental right to freedom of expression,' Amnesty International said. 'Wilchcombe's sentencing will have a chilling effect on journalists , who...

In a letter sent to the OAS Secretary General, César Gaviria Trujillo, the organisation expressed concern that human rights have not been a priority during President Fujimori's terms in office....

'Such summary trials , with barely seven minutes spent on each individual, neither allow the innocent to be acquitted nor ensure that those who may be guilty of war crimes will be discovered.' Amnesty...

A recent Amnesty International mission to Zimbabwe documented widespread human rights violations including arbitrary killings, torture and ill-treatment. These are believed to have caused a pervasive...