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Press releases in 2006

Lebanon and Israel: Amnesty urges immediate ceasefire as War Crimes continue

Call for war crimes investigation The devastating attack on Qana makes clear that an immediate and full ceasefire is urgently needed. Measures taken by Israel to temporarily suspend air-strikes over...

Scotland: Health concerns as Kenny Richey is due to celebrate his birthday

Amnesty International Scotland today (31 July) raised its concerns for the health and well being of Kenny Richey, the Scot on Death Row in Ohio. After nineteen and a half years awaiting execution...

USA: UN expert body critical of USA human rights record

Responding to the UN Human Rights Committee conclusions regarding the USA’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Amnesty International said that the United...

UK: Amnesty writes to Margaret Beckett urging end to arms exports

Amnesty International has written to UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett expressing its grave concern about the continuing transfer of weapons from the US, via the UK, to arm the conflict in Israel...

Iran: Urgent appeals as woman faces death by stoning

Ashraf Kolhari, a mother of four Children's rights between the ages of nine and nineteen, is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery. She has received the order for the implementation of...

Scotland: Amnesty calls for suspension of arms transfers to Israel and Hizbullah

Following the allegations in The Daily Telegraph (UK airport used to fly bombs to Israel 26.7.06) that Prestwick Airport has been used as a staging post to transport UK ‘bunker-busting bombs’, Amnesty...

Lebanon/Israel crisis: Amnesty open letter to foreign ministers meeting in Rome

Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan has today published an Open Letter addressed to foreign ministers meeting in Rome to discuss the crisis in Lebanon and Israel. The letter calls on...

Latvia: Amnesty condemns authorities’ failure to protect LGBT community

Amnesty International today condemned the Latvian authorities’ failure to protect the physical security of the LGBTI (LGBT) community as it celebrated “Riga Pride 2006” on Saturday (22 July). Anders...

Jordan: Renditions - New report says Jordan is key hub in secret CIA programme

Country’s notorious security agency’s use of torture instrumental in ‘war on terror’ Jordan is a key “hub” in the USA’s secret “renditions” programme, said Amnesty International today (24 July), as it...

Wales: Amnesty accuses Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google of hypocrisy in China and urges Welsh users to take action against them

Amnesty International Wales has urged users of Yahoo!, Microsoft and Google to use their power as consumers to help end corporate complicity in suppression of the internet in China. The call to action...