Press releases in 2006

Amnesty International today expressed concern for the safety of Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, the editor of the independent fortnightly Rwandan newspaper, Umuco, who has recently been the target of...

Hundreds of Nigerians are still sleeping out in the open nearly nine months after bulldozers and armed police arrived in the Makoko community of Lagos, demolishing homes, churches, a mosque and a...

Prisoner of conscience Zheng Enchong has allegedly been beaten at Tilanqiao Prison in Shanghai, where he is currently serving a three-year sentence. Amnesty International fears he is at risk of...

Crackdown on civil society ahead of elections - joint statement by Amnesty International, International Commission of Jurists and Human Rights Watch The Nepali government arrested more than 100...

Human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has survived an apparent attempt on his life which he believes was instigated by the authorities, Amnesty International said yesterday (10 January). In recent months...

Amnesty International expressed its concern at the sentencing to death in Thailand today of Wichai Somkhaoyai and Bualoi Posit for the rape and murder of the British national Katherine Horton on New...

There's a chance to raise money for Amnesty International and Young Concert Artists Trust (YCAT) while enjoying world-class musicians in a concert to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth...

Amnesty International is calling on California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to a seriously ill man with possible brain damage facing execution on Tuesday 17 January, the day after...

Amnesty International is appealing to all parties to halt the killings, abductions and "disappearances" being reported daily from the north and east of Sri Lanka. Over one hundred people including...

(Brussels/Vienna, 13 January 2006) One of the main challenges for the Austrian Presidency is to reaffirm the primacy of human rights inside and outside EU borders, said Amnesty International in its...