Press releases in 2000

Amnesty International calls on the Immigration authorities to establish an official monitoring mechanism for the private security companies whose staff have been allegedly routinely torturing and ill...

On 26 July, Amnesty International published a report: 'Sierra Leone: Ending impunity, an opportunity not to be missed' which set out the organisation's recommendations for a process which would...

In its comment on the report of the Commission, the human rights organisation said that the government should implement the recommendations from families of the missing and from non-governmental...

'The eyes of the international community will be on the Malaysian police on Friday morning,' the human rights organisation said. 'We urge the authorities to ensure that no one is arrested or brutally...

'The sentencing and the possible imprisonment of former Turkish Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, the former leader of the Islamist Welfare Party (RP), are completlely unacceptable,' Amnesty...

'Political debate and dissent occur in any democratic society and must be allowed as part of the exercise of fundamental rights - it should never take the form of killing innocent civilians who are...

The Federal Security Service (FSB) which has led the investigation, has continuously violated national and international standards of criminal procedure and appears to be more concerned in obtaining...

The program revealed that Zardad had killed unarmed civilians and he and his men have been involved in acts of torture , including rape, and that he allowed his men to carry out these human rights...