Press releases in 2003

The promise was made by the government in its recently published Common Minimum Program. However, in an address to new trainee police recruits on 5th January, Chief Minister Mohammad Sayeed reportedly...

'He has been transferred from prison to police custody where he will be interrogated for seven days in yet another politically motivated allegation of criminal activity brought against him by the...

'While the Guyanese authorities have the right - and the duty - to protect society from the threat of violence and crime, fundamental human rights cannot be traded in for increased security,' the...

'The defendants clearly did not receive a fair trial, and to execute them in these circumstances would be in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which the DRC is a...

'There can be no justification for the deliberate targeting of unarmed civilians. This act is a violation of the basic requirements of international humanitarian law, in particular those protecting...

Colonel Budanov, commander of a tank regiment in the Russian army in Chechnya, was on trial in the southern town of Rostov-on-Don for abducting and murdering an 18-year-old Chechen girl Kheda Kungaeva...