Press releases in 2000

The organisation welcomed the accord, through which President Alfonso Portillo accepted state responsibility for two specific massacres and 16 individual executions and ' disappearances ' which...

Defence lawyers present at their first appearances before the State Security Prosecution on 1 July 2000 reported that there were several accusations, including receiving foreign funding without...

'Texas is at the heart of that scandal,' the organisation continued, pointing to the fact that Texas now accounts for 28 of the 58 executions carried out in the USA this year, and 227 of the 656 since...

'The cases of Brian Roberson and Oliver Cruz, facing lethal injection within one hour of each other on the evening of 9 August, are textbook examples of the arbitrary and often discriminatory...

'Unless witnesses are protected and human rights defenders are freed from the threat of legal action many are likely to be discouraged from testifying,' the human rights organisation noted. On 4...

The two reports highlight a disregard for human rights by Romanian law enforcement officials and a lack of legal and institutional reforms on the part of the authorities. The first report, on the...

In letters to the two leaders of the CPN (Maoist), Pushpa Kumar Dahal and Dr Baburam Bhattarai, Amnesty International called for an immediate end to the recruitment of child soldiers and the abduction...

Uruguayan jurist Dr. Alejandro Artucio, Amnesty International's observer at the Supreme Court hearings, said: 'This is a triumph for justice in a case where repeated testimonies gave similar and...

Anwar Ibrahim and Sukma Darmawan were found guilty on charges of sodomy by the High Court in Kuala Lumpur and sentenced to terms of imprisonment of nine and six years respectively. Sukma Darmawan...

Jafar Siddiq Hamzah, head of the US-based non-governmental organisation International Forum for Aceh, failed to keep an appointment for a meeting in Medan on the evening of Saturday 5 August 2000. He...