Press releases in 2000

The guards acquitted last Friday were accused of setting up prison yard fights among rival prison gangs in Corcoran Prison's High Security Unit between 1989 and 1995, and then shooting at them when...

Amnesty International documented thousands of cases of torture across the world in 1999. Throughout Europe, torture and ill-treatment by police often racially motivated, was the most widely reported...

Jesus Maria Pedrosa Urquiza, a member both of the ruling centre-right Popular Party (PP) and of a nationalist trade union, was the fifth person to be killed by ETA since the beginning of the year. He...

'The way a handful of governments have been allowed to hold hostage the review process illustrates the broader reality for Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights : when it comes to...

One of the objectives of the historic meeting between President Kim Dae-jung and Chairman Kim Jong Il to be held in Pyongyang from 12-14 June, is to establish a permanent peace on the Korean peninsula...

After three decades in which Togolese civilians and soldiers have been arrested, tortured , killed or have been 'disappeared' with complete impunity the setting up of an international investigation...

'Some governments are still attempting to backtrack from the Beijing Platform for Action and weaken what was agreed five years ago. It is supposed to be Beijing Plus Five and not Minus Five.' Just a...

A new Amnesty International report, Terror Tactics, examines how killings and torture are being carried out: - with the complicity of the government; - through lack of protection by the police of...

'One of them was an investigator, called Vasiliy. I heard how he ordered: 'Let's do it.' And they began forcing wooden clubs into me... I cried and cried and called for help - I was in so much pain. I...

The organisation was seriously concerned about what appears to have been indiscriminate shelling of a village from a police patrol boat seized by paramilitaries . 'Villagers have reported being...