Press releases in 2001

The ruling came nearly a year and a half after Patrick Genius was killed by police officers in Kingston, Jamaica on 13 December 1999. The autopsy report into his death indicated that he had sustained...

The UK entry in the Amnesty International Report 2001 highlights: * The lack of access to legal advice for 'dispersed' asylum-seekers * The hostile attitudes facing many asylum-seekers * The detention...

Now in his thirties, Ngawang Choephel, who is in urgent need of medical treatment, has been transferred to a prison in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, supposedly to receive hospital treatment. During...

Police claim Vanesa Lorena Ledesma died from a ‘cardiac arrest', though an autopsy reportedly showed she had been tortured, including being beaten while handcuffed, with severe bruising to feet...

Police claim Vanesa Lorena Ledesma died from a ‘cardiac arrest', though an autopsy reportedly showed she had been {tortured}, including being beaten while handcuffed, with severe bruising to feet...

The two men, Gerson Pandie and Fredik Soru, both 34 years old, were sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of Theopilus and Marselina Pingak, and their two adopted Children's rights, Memori and...

'These human rights defenders are being held solely for peacefully carrying out their legitimate human rights work. The Ethiopian government should release them immediately and unconditionally,' the...

'Eye witness accounts -- including from our own observer -- point to the excessive use of tear gas by police against peaceful demonstrators , and the use of plastic bullets,' the organization said...

As the report demonstrates, torture and ill-treatment persisted both under the previous government of the Democratic Party and the present one of the Socialist Party. 'With national elections just a...

On 19 May in 1997 human rights activists Elsa Alvarado and Mario Calderón were killed in their home in Bogotá. Masked gunmen overpowered the doorman, forcibly entered the apartment and killed them...