Press releases in 2005

G8 weapons have been exported to countries including Sudan, Burma (Burma), the Republic of Congo, Colombia and the Philippines. The report makes a clear case for the G8 to support UK Foreign Secretary...

The organisation suspects that over 25,000 people who have sought asylum in the UK, including Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights, were detained solely...

The human rights organisation said that the decision would fuel worldwide concern over accounts of torture and ill-treatment, religious humiliation and arbitrary detention emerging from the facility...

Presently the UK has already suspended all arms assistance to Nepal but the situation was recently described by the UK government as "under review".(1) The 27-page report, Nepal: Military assistance...

The human rights organisation believes this court cannot provide justice for the crimes committed in Darfur because of the current climate of intimidation, and because an independent and impartial...

Young people from around Scotland debate human rights issues at Amnesty International Conference. 150 school pupils will gather on Tuesday 17th July at St Aloysius' College, Glasgow, for the Amnesty...

Currently the same former Belmarsh detainees are subject to control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 - the same measures that were so roundly criticised by the CoE Commissioner for...

Amnesty International fears that several hundred Addis Ababa University students, who were arrested during demonstrations earlier this week, are being held incommunicado without charge, and are being...

At the meeting, the Secretary General pledged the organisation's full support for the McCartney family's call for justice and not revenge for the murder of Robert McCartney. The McCartney family's...

Benjamin Zephaniah said: "For many years Jamaica was associated with freedom fighters and liberators, so it hurts when I see that the home of my parents is now associated with the persecution of...