Press releases in 2007

Amnesty International deplores the targeting and killing of at least 69 non-Assamese people living in Upper Assam in North East India over the last six days. The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA...

Two recent US Taser-related deaths raises further cause for concern Amnesty International has expressed concern at the recent decision by Taser International to launch a new electro-shock weapon for...

Amnesty International has expressed concern at the recent decision by Taser International to launch a new electro-shock weapon for the US general public and has renewed its calls for an independent...

Where: US Consulate, Danesfort House, 223 Stranmillis Road, Belfast When: 12.30pm, Thursday 11th January 2007. Amnesty International is to mark the five-year ‘anniversary’ of the first ‘war on terror’...

Amnesty International has expressed concern over the safety of three members of Ethiopia’s prominent teachers trade union – the Ethiopian Teachers’ Association – who are believed to be in detention...

Amnesty International supporters around the world are urgently appealing to the Iraqi authorities to immediately commute the death sentence of three of Saddam Hussein’s aides who are scheduled to be...

Reacting to the news today (3 January) that the Conservative Party has called for the Britain to sign up to the European Convention Against Trafficking, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim...

Reacting to the news today (3 January) that the Conservative Party has called for Britain to sign up to the European Convention Against Trafficking, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Director Tim...

Amnesty International today (3 January) warned the international community that the abhorrent pictures of Saddam Hussein’s execution are just the tip of the iceberg, as Iraq moves back towards a...