Press releases in 2006

Impunity and attacks on freedom of expression are threatening the upcoming Congressional and Presidential elections in Colombia, says Amnesty International, in the run-up to a visit by the Andean...

Responding to new broadcast images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq’s Abu Ghraib jail in 2003, Amnesty International today called for a full investigation, extending beyond the Baghdad...

Amnesty International has learned that on Saturday 11 February 2006 at approximately 12pm local time, armed police and security forces arrived in 15 cars at Juba University in Bahri, Khartoum at the...

NIO Minister David Hanson has told campaigners that he is to meet soon with Northern Ireland’s main political parties in an effort to move forward on establishing a Bill of Rights. The news came this...

Amnesty International UK and Global Witness have today (10 February) launched a new, glossy, simple guide which tells shoppers what they need to know when they shop for diamond jewellery if they want...

Responding to an article in today's New York Times about an ongoing hunger strike at the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International has issued a call for international medical...

Amnesty International has urged the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo to protect civilians against the armed insurgent groups who have carried out rape, murder and the burning and looting...

Death threats and attacks against journalists, candidates and public officials are undermining the rule of law in Colombia and could raise doubts about the fairness of the elections, said Amnesty...

Amnesty International has expressed deep concern about the deteriorating security situation in the Central African Republic (CAR). In recent months members of the security forces and armed gangs out...

Amnesty International said today that while leaders of armed insurgent groups in the Katanga and North-Kivu provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) must be held to account for serious...