Press releases in 2005

Rathmore Grammar School’s Amnesty International Group have achieved the amazing feat of photographing the entire school to add to Amnesty International’s Million Faces campaign. More than 850 young...

Political leaders have been placed under arrest and communications links within Nepal and with the outside world have been severed. All independent Nepali media have been closed down and state-owned...

"This man’s release only underscores the arbitrariness and secretive nature of the draconian measures currently being used to detain people without charge in this country. "What we need to see now...

The US, China and Russia, in particular, should set aside their reservations about the Court in order to bring justice to the people of Sudan, said the organisation. The report comes from a five...

"Bail conditions are obviously likely to be better than detention without trial but they are still likely to fall a long way short of fairness and basic human rights standards. "Mr Abu Rideh should...

The men were arrested and reportedly tortured in December by members of the Sudanese military and government-backed militia, the ‘janjawid’, who are still guarding the men. A fifth man arrested...

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Charles Clarke announced that detaining foreign "terror" suspects without trial will be replaced by restrictions on movement and communication, in some cases amounting to house arrest. The proposed...

Earlier today the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeal in Cincinnati ruled that Mr Richey's death sentence has been overturned. The federal court has instructed the state of Ohio to release Mr Richey...

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: "The arrival of these men back in Britain after three years of detention should mark the end of all illegal detentions at Guantánamo Bay. "In the...