Press releases in 2004

The letter warns of a 'vacuum in the substance of the programme as to how the stated ambition [of ensuring the protection of fundamental rights] is to be realised'. Amnesty International’s Open...

The letter was sent as the Joint Select Committee charged with the Bill’s review prepared to table a report in the House of Representatives on Tuesday recommending substantial changes to the draft...

Neither presidential candidate mentioned the issue in three televised presidential debates. The call came as Amnesty International launched a major new 200-page report - Human Dignity Denied: Torture...

Amnesty International is concerned by reports that members of the youth opposition organization PORA ('It is time') are being subjected to arbitrary arrest and harassment for the legitimate exercise...

The Thai authorities today announced that 78 demonstrators died of suffocation after being taken into custody. They have reportedly acknowledged that at least an additional six died of gunshot wounds...

Many victims, aged six to over seventy years, have been gang raped by up to twenty-five combatants or taken prisoner and used for months or years as sex slaves. The rapes have often been accompanied...

Ryan's mother Pauline will also be present at the event, as will leading British-born death row lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith, who worked on Ryan’s case. Ryan Matthews was sentenced to death in...

For the past two days hundreds of people have been protesting in the centre of Minsk against the results of parliamentary elections and a controversial referendum that lifted restrictions on President...

Amnesty International UK, Reprieve and Amicus have organised a special event bringing together three former death row prisoners from the USA - all since declared innocent - and two anti-death penalty...

The survey, presented to this week’s World Diamond Congress (WDC) in New York, shows that almost two years after the diamond industry agreed to a system of self-regulation to prevent the trade in...