Press releases in 2006

As the Policing Board reveal the Chief Constable of PSNI's plans for the introduction of electro-shock ‘Tasers’, Amnesty International issued the following briefing detailing its concerns that Tasers...

Amnesty International members around the world are writing to the US government asking it to not to derail the creation of an effective new UN Human Rights Council at the UN this week. The proposed...

Amnesty International has today (6 March) called for an end to the internment of thousands of detainees in Iraq by the Multinational Forces, as it released a new report showing that approximately 14...

Reacting to the news of the South Wales police raids on brothels in Swansea, Cardiff and Bridgend during the night of Thursday 2nd March 2006, Amnesty International Wales Director Eleanor White says:...

Drive-by thieves who use violence may now face the death penalty, according to an alarming announcement by the Guangdong provincial authorities. The Vice-President of the Guangdong High People’s Court...

Amnesty International welcomes the move by the authorities to bring to justice perpetrators of a massacre during the Gujarat communal violence in 2002. A Mumbai special court has now sentenced nine...

Amnesty International is to stage a powerful photographic exhibition in more than 50 libraries to coincide with International Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s Day (March...