Press releases in 2003

The men are detained purely for their political and religious beliefs, and there are serious concerns about their conditions of detention and lack of access to medical care. In a special report...

While the jury was considering its sentence during the 1994 trial, the prosecutor argued that because Mr Hartman was gay the sexual abuse he had suffered as a child should not be considered as...

According to her defence lawyer, Amina Lawal was freed from the threat of punishment on the grounds that neither the conviction nor the confession were legally valid. This meant that no offence as...

The report, Yemen: the rule of law sidelined in the name of security , shows that in the months following the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington, Yemen embarked upon mass arrests, extra...

Following public and prisoner protests after deaths of prisoners - the first in the Maldives under the current presidency, over a dozen people have been arrested and there are fears that more arrests...

Amnesty International UK director, Kate Allen, said: 'It's very disturbing that the Malimath Committee report refers quite openly to the need to reform the criminal justice system in order to secure...

The Children's rights - detained for possession of bibles - are being held in unventilated, overcrowded and extremely hot conditions, with inadequate food and medical care. Amnesty International is...

It is alleged that earlier this month Uruguayan MONUC troops arrested Mr Willy Bengwela, a member of Congo's national intelligence service and security adviser to the local government in the eastern...

'Some good Foreign Office human rights work has effectively been overshadowed by an apparent government unwillingness to stand up to the US on key issues like the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo...

The annual Foreign and Commonwealth Office report is likely to summarise the government's view on issues such as the 'war on terrorism', Guantanamo Bay, war in Iraq, the International Criminal Court...