Press releases in 2002

Based on continuous reports by victims and witnesses, Amnesty International presented a briefing to CEDAW highlighting the climate of impunity where alleged perpetrators are rarely brought to justice...

'Injustice and repression have proved that they cannot stop these attacks,' said Amnesty International delegates leaving for Jerusalem. 'Justice and human rights are the only way forward and we call...

Arban Perlala, at the time a high-school student aged 17, was detained after leaving a demonstration in Athens on 15 January 1999. 'Molotovs' had been thrown at a group of police officers, gravely...

'It is essential that these prisoners are granted access to lawyers and human rights monitors to guarantee that their rights are fully respected,' the organisation said. Drawing on its decades of...

Amnesty International members around the world who have campaigned for Ngawang Choephel's release over the last six years welcomed the news. 'But the fact remains that like other prisoners of...

Although the circumstances surrounding his killing are still unclear, it follows numerous threats and attacks against PT politicians in the state of São Paulo over recent months, in a wider context...

On 17 and 18 January 2002, the Zimbabwe Herald newspaper alleged that Amani Trust has been 'funding covert operations against Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)'; that it is...

In yet a further exacerbation of the situation, a 20-year-old Catholic postal worker, Daniel McColgan, was killed by the Loyalist armed group, the Ulster Defence Association (UDA). He was shot by two...

On 15 January, Nhial Bol, the Khartoum Monitor's Chief Editor, was sentenced to six months imprisonment unless he pays a fine of 5 million Sudanese dinars (about USD 1,905). The newspaper was fined 15...

Amnesty International fears that if these issues are not addressed the credibility and the effectiveness of the Special Court could be at stake and undermine efforts to ensure respect for human rights...