Press releases in 2000

Pedro Rax had been convicted of the 1996 murder of his wife and condemned to die by lethal injection. President Portillo yesterday commuted his sentence from death to 30 years' imprisonment. 'Besides...

The organisation emphasized the important principle reflected in international and national law that certain human rights guarantees can never be suspended. Fijian military and police officers will be...

'These incidents - together with the beatings of civilians by soldiers - reflect the fragile political situation following the civil war in 1998 and 1999. The new government's promise to protect and...

Ruggiu, a Belgian citizen who pleaded guilty to inciting genocidal killings of Tutsis in Rwanda through radio broadcasts made on the Radio et Television Libre des Milles Collines (RTLM) in Kigali in...