Press releases in 2001

'In many West African countries, human rights defenders are harassed, detained, tortured 'disappeared' forced into exile or killed because of their activities,' Amnesty International asserted in 'Be...

On 22 March 2001, Ibrahim al-Taj Hussain Zaydan, a Sudanese national in his early twenties and an asylum-seeker who had been registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Beirut...

'The Iraqi Government must put an end to the continuing executions of suspected opponents', Amnesty International said. The latest victim known to Amnesty International is 'Abd al-Wahad al-Rifa'i who...

'Despite the many commitments made by governments, serious human rights violations continue in virtually every country in the region, from Canada to the Southern Cone, across the Caribbean and Central...

'Physical and psychological punishments against conscripts of all ages, resulting in both mental and physical harm, are commonplace in the Paraguayan armed forces and police ,' the organization said....

In a statement issued at the end of an Amnesty International fact-finding mission to Guinea, the organization recommended that: 'The present UN force in Sierra Leone, UNAMSIL, or the proposed ECOWAS...

In a report published today the organization is putting forward a series of recommendations to end the complete impunity which has so far shrouded those responsible for thousands of cases of torture...

A homophobic group in Ecuador has announced that in April it will embark upon a campaign of 'social cleansing', directed at the LGBT community which it refers to as 'human garbage'. 'These threats are...

Following several recent reports of rape by security forces in Mannar, Batticaloa, Negombo and Jaffna, the organization reminded President Chandrika Kumaratunga that safeguards to protect Women's...

'Those who had authorised her execution failed to inform her family or lawyers of the execution date. The prison authorities refused access to her on the last day of her life. These acts of deception...