Press releases in 2002

The lack of progress made by the Georgian government in key areas has been highlighted by the UN Committee as it concluded its current consideration of the country's compliance with the International...

'These six years have been marked by alleged police and judicial incompetence and failures, which resulted in the families of the victims being denied justice,' Amnesty International said. Amnesty...

This renewed call includes the arrest of the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and his supreme Commander Ratko Mladic, both charged with genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the...

The 27-year conflict between the Angolan Government and armed forces of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) gave rise to gross human rights abuses. During the war both...

The procedures for the election of the members of the emergency Loya Jirga, which were announced 1 April 2002, state that those who are elected or selected as members of the Loya Jirga must not have...

'We have already received evidence that ZANU-PF officials in charge of distributing food supplies in many rural areas are discriminating against those believed to be supporters of the MDC,' said...

The report, 'Nepal: A spiralling human rights crisis' , shows that both the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN, Maoist) and government security forces have engaged in 'disappearances', abductions, torture...

Amnesty International groups in Belfast as well as France, Germany, the USA and Norway had all called for Jigme Sangpo's release. The Belfast Amnesty International group had spent two years...

The organisation repeated its call for international human rights monitors to be deployed with the aim of protecting Palestinian and Israeli civilians. Amnesty International first called for human...

While the full facts are not yet known, other inmates have alleged witnessing guards and police officers kicking and stomping on Burgess and beating him with night sticks in a sustained attack during...