Press releases in 2005

Prison guards reportedly stamped on the neck of Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, causing him to pass out during a beating last November while he was handcuffed. Another man, Luis Enrique Ferrer Garcia, was...

Amnesty International said: "This proposition undermines the confidence many countries, including Nigeria, have put in the ICC as the institution to judge the worst crimes committed in the world....

But the organisation noted with scepticism the timing of the release, on medical parole: the same day, the US announced it will not seek to sponsor a resolution on China at the ongoing UN Human Rights...

During a research trip to Zimbabwe last month, Amnesty International delegates gathered evidence of continued government intimidation and arbitrary arrest of opposition candidates and supporters...

Amnesty’s latest research shows that harassment and imprisonment of activists defending civil, political and economic rights in China is on the increase with cases reported in just the past few...

The EU Council decided not to begin accession talks on 17 March, as originally scheduled. These will be opened only after it is established that Croatia is fully cooperating with the International...

Jack Straw confirmed the UK government's commitment to work for an international Arms Treaty. "I announced last September that the UK would work for such a treaty. I want to set out today some more...

She urged the UK to press for a strong resolution at the UN Commission on Human Rights, meeting in Geneva 14 March – 22 April, to ensure that the UN sends an investigator to Nepal to report on the...

Sumi Khan has been in the UK (1 March) to collect an Index on Censorship award for "outstanding commitment to journalistic integrity in defence of freedom of expression". The letter to Sumi Khan told...

But the organisation said that there is still a pressing need for a public enquiry into non-combat deaths at Deepcut and other army barracks. Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Stephen Bowen...