Press releases in 2004

The demonstrations have been called by the Awami League to protest against bomb attacks on their leadership last Saturday. The bombings left at least 19 people dead and some 300 wounded. Following the...

These have included attacks on civilians, arrests of people who dare to criticise the government and forced returns of people to villages that are highly unsafe. The human rights organisation, which...

The hearings, scheduled to take place on 23 August, are those of four Guantánamo Bay detainees facing trial by military commission at the US naval base in Cuba. These will be the first military...

Amnesty International said: “This investigation is crucial in order to counter any manipulation of the killings by political and military actors within the region, and to pre-empt any resulting...

All 39 ‘metis’ (male transvestites) are members of the Blue Diamond Society, an organisation in Kathmandu that campaigns for the rights of sexual minorities and provides sexual health advice and...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “The rule of law and human rights have become casualties of the measures taken in the aftermath of 9/11. This judgement is an aberration, morally...

15 men were reportedly arrested following the visit of US Secretary of State Colin Powell to Abu Shawq camp near al-Fasher on 30 June, and five men were arrested at the same camp after a visit by a...

“The meeting was frank and respectful and Amnesty International reaffirmed the importance of continuing the dialogue the organisation has maintained with successive Colombian governments”, Javier...

Amnesty International said: “The death penalty is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. It violates the fundamental right to life, is irrevocable and can be inflicted on the innocent...

The clients, Abdullah Gündogdu, Tahsin Atak and Ihsan Gülmek, had been detained and reportedly tortured - beaten, stripped and sprayed with a high-pressure hose for over two hours. Amnesty...