Press releases in 2004

Amnesty International said: “The kidnapping and killing of civilians are recognised international crimes and violate people’s most basic rights. There can be no justification for these acts.”...

The organisation is calling for a massive increase in monitors and for them to be deployed in every region of Darfur because the government’s so-called 'safe areas' provide no real security. Amnesty...

Amnesty International said: “There are worrying reports about the mounting casualties amongst civilians who find themselves caught in the battle between American troops and insurgents. “It is time...

The conviction and sentencing today of Kenneth Barrett, a former loyalist paramilitary, for the murder of Patrick Finucane has removed any purported justification on the part of the authorities to...

Since 1990 the USA has executed 19 child offenders (those convicted of offences committed when they were aged below 18), and Iran 10 - including three this year, most recently a 16-year-old girl...

The reports, which include video evidence and witness testimony, say that the four girls and one boy, who were aged between 13 and 16 years old and part of an ethnic Hmong rebel group, were killed...

Amnesty International has finally been granted access to the region where over a million people have been forced from their homes, more than 50,000 people have been killed, thousands of Women's rights...

The human rights organisation considers the two men to be prisoners of conscience and urges the authorities to release them immediately and unconditionally. Valery Levonevsky, the president of the...

Attacks on civilians can never be justified and are prohibited by international law. Amnesty International calls for the perpetrators to be brought promptly to justice in proceedings that meet...

Human Rights Centre “Memorial”, Moscow Helsinki Group, All-Russia Movement for Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)...