Press releases in 2000

Torture of detained Chechens is regular and systematic. Techniques range from savage beatings with hammers to repeated near-suffocation and the rape of both men and Women's rights's rightss rights's...

Human rights violations continue to take place, albeit on a lesser scale than during the period of civil unrest in the mid-1990s. Anti-government protesters or suspected political opponents are...

Adriana Portillo's two young Children's rights and an 18-month-old half sister were kidnapped and ' disappeared ' by the Guatemalan security forces in 1981. Other members of her family were also...

'The impunity that these men have enjoyed for nine years is an insult to the suffering of the victims and their families and an offence to natural justice,' Amnesty International said today. The three...

While welcoming Armenia's willingness to acknowledge problems during this transitional phase in the country's history, Amnesty International strongly urges the government to set about improving its...

Grigory Pasko was arrested by Federal Security Service (FSB) officers in November 1997 for treason and espionage, after he exposed the Russian navy's illegal dumping of nuclear waste off the coast of...

The 15 people include lawyers, physicians, university professors and engineers who have been detained since 1999. They were sentenced between three and five years imprisonment for their non-violent...

'Approximately one million refugees and displaced people are still unable to return to their homes or rebuild their lives elsewhere,' Amnesty International added. Massive human rights violations took...

'For many years Amnesty International has been campaigning for the immediate and unconditional release of prisoners of conscience, fair trials for political prisoners, and investigations into all...

On 14 November, Carsten Jurgensen who works at Amnesty International's International Secretariat in London, visited the polling station of the Khalid Ben al-Walid school in the parliamentary election...