Press releases in 2000

Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Yeni Musavat, was arrested on 22 August 2000 at his home in Baku after police claimed to have found an illegally-held 'Makarov' pistol in the apartment...

However, Amnesty International is still concerned about these latest attacks on freedom of the news media in Liberia. The human rights group warned that human rights defenders and journalists in the...

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...