Press releases in 2005

According to the Guatemalan authorities, 1,188 Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls were murdered between 2001 and 2004. Many of the victims have been raped or sexually...

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...

In a report released today, Equatorial Guinea - A trial with too many flaws , Amnesty International exposes in detail the series of human rights violations seen throughout the uncovering and...

Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme, "This announcement brings hope for justice and accountability for the victims of killings, massive forced displacement and...

The Security Council is preparing to consider reports on the implementation of the "completion strategy". To date only 37 people have received a final sentence for their crimes in the Yugoslav wars...

The organisation also called for the release of those imprisoned in 1989 or jailed since for seeking a reassessment of events at Tiananmen. Amnesty highlighted the case of Shi Tao, a writer and...

Over the past two weeks the Government of Zimbabwe has orchestrated the forced eviction of thousands of informal traders and families living in informal settlements across the country as part of a...

An inquiry under the 2005 Act, railroaded through Parliament on the last possible day before it was dissolved for the election, would lack independence and be largely controlled by the executive, says...

According to information received by Amnesty International, Sheikh Muhammad Ma’shuq al-Khiznawi, 48, died on 30 May, 20 days after he “disappeared”, apparently detained by Syrian Military...