Press releases in 2003

Despite significant progress the PNTL remains a fragile and underdeveloped institution which is not yet adequately trained, equipped, or sufficiently well-supported according to Amnesty International...

The report, one of several on Russia until recently blocked by Russia itself, has been produced by the Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). Russia is the last...

Amnesty International members will be holding protests in Dartmouth (9 July 2003, time tbc) and London (16 July 2003, 12:00 pm, West India Docks, Docklands, Meridian Gate) to voice concern at the ship...

Two of the four Lao nationals who were assisting them were also reported to have been given harsh prison terms today, one reportedly receiving a twenty-year prison sentence. After hearing the verdict...

In a letter to Paul Bremer, the organisation also calls on the US to ensure that detainees are treated humanely and that excessive use of force is investigated, after one detainee was shot dead and...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'The human rights situation in Guatemala is at crisis point. The international community must take urgent steps to halt the cycle of political...

Kate Allen, Amnesty International UK Director, said: 'A public statement on human rights in Chechnya and Russia was conspicuous by its absence, amid all the talk of special relationships, Iraq and...

Today, on United Nations International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture (26 June 2003), Amnesty International issued a fresh call for an end to torture, as it launched a new manual to help...

Lesley Warner, Amnesty International UK Media Director said today: 'The recent actions to help bring about police accountability are positive, welcome and give credibility to the government's...

As the human rights organisation issued a new Urgent Action on a Bangladeshi journalist and his family who have received death threats, it said the UK government's policy could send asylum seekers...