Press releases in 2002

Amnesty International, which has documented the cases of 195 people still imprisoned after unfair trials, is calling for the Chinese authorities to release all prisoners - including, since June 1989...

'International law respected across the world unequivocally prohibits the use of the death penalty against child offenders - people who were under 18 years old at the time of their crimes,' Amnesty...

In a statement to the organisation on the eve of the anniversary of his death, Signe Modén, Osmo Vallo's mother, said: 'I have been partially vindicated by the authorities' admission that the actions...

Amina Lawal was charged with adultery and sentenced to stoning to death on 22 March 2002 by a Sharia Court in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. Her appeal was originally scheduled for 27 May 2002...

Dermot McShane died shortly after being taken to hospital on the night of 12 July 1996 in Londonderry, Co. Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He had been fatally injured in the course of a major public...

Amnesty International's global survey of human rights in 2001 indicates that a number of governments jumped on the 'anti-terrorism' bandwagon and seized the moment to step up repression, undermine...

Amina Lawal was charged with adultery and sentenced to stoning to death on 22 March 2002 by a Sharia Court in Katsina State in northern Nigeria. 'We have continually asked the Nigerian authorities not...

Napoleon Beazley (now aged 25), who in August 2001 came within hours of execution, is scheduled to die by lethal injection at 6pm Texas time for a crime committed when he was 17 years old, an...

The report 'Mass detention in cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions', documents how detainees were humiliated and detained for days without charge, access to a court, their lawyer or families. 'We...

Amnesty International's findings show that the recent pattern of persecution has included short-term detentions, interrogations, summonses, official warnings, threats, intimidation, evictions, loss of...