Press releases in 2007

NGOs welcome new policy on interpreters, but call for UK action on wider crisis The UK government’s decision to reconsider its refusal to grant special asylum arrangements for Iraqi interpreters...

The level of threats, intimidation, attacks and killings of activists in Honduras and Guatemala who campaign to defend the rights of marginalised communities is reaching ‘worrying proportions’ said...

‘Travesty of justice’ condemned and UK urged to speak out Responding to today’s news that the UK government will make representations for the return to Britain of five UK residents imprisoned at the...

UK Working Group on Arms Press Release The UK Working Group on Arms (1) today welcomes the Quadripartite Committee’s report which warns that UK legislation is struggling to deal with an increasingly...

Amnesty International Scotland today (7 August) stepped up its campaign for imprisoned Chinese journalist and poet Shi Tao, as it published a new China report marking ‘one year to go’ until the...

Launch of ‘Human Rights for China’ campaign Amnesty International has today (7 August) warned that human rights abuses in China are blighting the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as it...

Amnesty International has made an appeal for all Taleban-held hostages in Afghanistan to be immediately and unconditionally released after the organisation made direct contact with members of the...