Press releases in 2000

Amnesty International believes that those arrested in Baroda and other parts of Gujarat in the past 48 hours have been detained solely on the grounds that they are planning to exercise their right to...

In an unprecedented decision, on 19 August the Legislative Assembly of the Federal District unanimously passed an addition to the Penal Code allowing sentences of between 15 and 40 years in prison for...

Amnesty International has long campaigned for the creation of such a court because it will end the effective immunity from prosecution currently enjoyed by people alleged to have committed torture...

'The civilian population is once again being used as an expendable political bargaining tool,' said the human rights organisation, after its latest mission to Burundi. In a continuing escalation of...

The arrest fits into a pattern of arrests of journalists and human rights defenders in Liberia on politically-motivated charges. Mark Lattimer, Amnesty International UK Communications Director, said:...

Amnesty International believes that those arrested in Baroda and other parts of Gujarat in the past 48 hours have been detained solely on the grounds that they are planning to exercise their right to...

'If she is convicted she would be considered to be a prisoner of conscience.' Nadire Mater will stand trial on 24 August and could be sentenced to several years in prison. Her publisher Semih Sökmen...

The organisation expressed concern about the safety of Mrs. Dahlia Allen, attorney representing some twenty inmates at the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre, Spanish Town, who have allegedly...

On Friday 18 August Attorney General Ramesh Maharaj accused the organisation of being involved in a 'political act to destabilise' Caribbean countries and of making 'unfounded and mischievous'...

Bojan Aleksov is a Serb national who has been living in Budapest for two years, working primarily with the Safe-House project for Conscientious Objectors from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY)...