Press releases in 2002

Alirio Uribe, who works since more than 10 years for the victims of human rights violations, said that this great honor 'belongs foremost to all the human rights defenders (HRDs) in Colombia who...

Little action has been taken over the Mumbai riots and Amnesty International fears that authorities may also fail to bring to justice those responsible for mass killings in Gujarat this year. Though a...

According to the resolution the expanded MONUC will reinforce the existing task force in the disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration process, assist in the destruction of impounded weapons and...

Following Amnesty International's first ever full research mission to the country, this was its conclusion, formed as a result of meetings in various locations around the country with: numerous...

Amnesty International believes that judicial independence is the vital element in any accessible justice system. By refusing to abide by recent rulings of the Court of Appeal, the highest court in the...

Moreover, in view of the massive publicity around this case and the inadequacies of the Russian justice system, there was very little chance that Akhmed Zakayev would have been given a fair trial in...

The statement attributed to the Secretary General of Amnesty International is an extract from a previous statement published by the organisation in September in response to statements and documents...

The group launched an anti death penalty campaign in October and plan to deliver the results of the campaign to the president in early December. Amnesty International welcomed the campaign and urged...

On 22 November the League issued a report, which outlines two draft bills due to be submitted to the next Diet session beginning in January. The bills include: an amendment to the criminal code to...

'The charges on which Saad Eddin Ibrahim and Nadia 'Abd al-Nur were convicted and imprisoned in a retrial in July 2002 are a pretext to punish them for criticising government policies. They should be...