Press releases in 2001

The organisation will be sending an observer to the trial of Colonel Ubiratan Guimarnes, who led the Military Police shock troops into the Casa da Detencao prison (popularly known as Carandiru) on 2...

'The continuing protests during President Bush's European visit show how the USA's use of the death penalty is tarnishing the country's international image,' the organization added, noting how this...

'Unless action is taken now to protect freedom of movement and allow civilians fleeing the fighting to seek safety, the human rights crisis will deteriorate,' Amnesty International said. According to...

Diana Moukalled 'Confessions of Jordanians guilty of honour killings…' Al-Wasat Cilina Nasser 'To kill or not to kill: Lebanon reconsiders who is subject to capital punishment'…

With Juan Raul Garza due to be executed under US federal government law next week*, Amnesty International calls on the Swedish Presidency of the EU to underline the EU's strong opposition to the death...

While on patrol, Burmese troops seize villagers for forced labour and steal livestock, rice, money and personal possessions. Soldiers frequently torture or kill people for assumed links with the armed...

'During the last US Navy exercises in late April, dozens of people reported being subjected to unnecessary force and ill-treatment by Navy personnel,' the organization added, urging the US Navy to...

'Lethal force should never be used when lives are not in danger,' Amnesty International said. 'Only if full investigations are made into every killing will human life once again be given a value in...

'The weeks since the announcement of the election results on 27 May 2001 have been marked by a pattern of government harassment and repression of the opposition,' Amnesty International said. As the...

The organization deeply regrets this failure of human rights leadership at the highest levels of government in the USA. 'President George W. Bush's record on the death penalty is well-known across the...