Press releases in 2007

Amnesty International today warned that today’s Law Lords ruling may only lead to the government persisting with a watered-down Control Order regime that remains fundamentally unfair. The organisation...

Amnesty International highlights two cases of severe human rights abuses in Saudi Arabia As King Abdullah begins his second day of his UK state visit, Amnesty International has urged the UK Government...

Amnesty international UK Director Kate Allen said: “Gordon Brown should use this meeting with the Saudi King to make absolutely clear that the extent and severity of human rights abuses in King...

Human rights organisation expresses disappointment with Constitutional Court ruling Amnesty International is deeply disappointed with today’s Indonesian Constitutional Court ruling to uphold the death...

From 29 to 31 October the highest court in the UK, the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords, will be hearing the case of R (Hilal Abdul Razzaq Ali Al-Jedda) v Secretary of State for Defence...

Gays rights conference attacked by smoke bombs after rally was banned Amnesty International is deeply concerned by yesterday’s attacks on the gay community in Vilnius, which saw the mayor ban a rally...

A senior colleague of the jailed Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will attend First Minister’s Questions at the Scottish Parliament on Thursday 25th October and be welcomed by the First...

On the eve of the European Union-Russia summit in Portugal on 26 October, Amnesty International is warning the Russian authorities not to repeat mistakes previously made in Chechnya in the...

Security forces ‘guilty’ of detention, torture and murder of political opponents The government of President Joseph Kabila must launch an urgent and independent investigation into the systematic...

Sein Win to face Northern Ireland politicians in historic meeting The head of Burma’s elected “government-in-exile” will make a historic visit to Belfast later today (25 October 2007) to call on the...