Press releases in 2002

'The need for watchfulness has intensified' Amnesty International said, 'Safeguards critical to upholding human rights protection - proved weak elsewhere in the Philippines - have come under...

President Musharraf had indicated in his speech to the nation on 12 January that sectarian violence had undermined the writ of the government and needed to be brought to an end. He said that in the...

The laws were promulgated by royal decree after 11 September, without passing through the Jordanian parliament. They are part of a worrying trend and came on the heels of additional new laws...

'The charges on which Saad Eddin Ibrahim and the other human rights defenders were convicted and imprisoned in May 2001 are a pretext to punish them for criticizing government policies. They should be...

Hamma Hammami, Abdeljabbar Madouri and Samir Taamallah appeared before the court on Saturday for a retrial after four years of living in hiding. In July 1999 they had been sentenced in absentia to...

'The taking of hostages is a grave human rights abuse and is totally unacceptable. It is an act which threatens the fundamental right to life, personal integrity and liberty, and is expressly...

Victims of the latest wave of harassment include Fernando Gomes, founder and former president of the Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos, (LGDH), Guinea-Bissau Human Rights League, and currently...

The Memorandum, An opportunity to confront torture and impunity , was submitted to the new authorities in late December. Despite the ongoing human rights crisis, the transitional government has yet to...

Visitors to detention facilities are reporting that prisons are dangerously overcrowded and that prisoners lack adequate food and medicine and are not sheltered from severe winter conditions. Under...