Press releases in 2007

A shocking nationwide billboard campaign by Amnesty International hits Northern Ireland today, with its sights set on the ‘War on Terror’. While most campaigns ask people to sign up, Unsubscribe...

* Unsubscribe campaign to unite people “online and on the streets” in opposition to terrorism and human rights abuse * New www.unsubscribe-me.org website, billboard…

Amnesty International today called for the immediate and unconditional release of its two delegates and a local journalist who was detained with them in the Gambia. No charges have been brought...

Glasgow and Edinburgh will be two of nearly 70 cities around the world taking part in a Global Day of Action to show support for democracy activists in Burma. The demonstrations in Glasgow and...

Gordon Brown to meet delegation at Downing Street Burmese monks will take centre stage in London today as Amnesty International highlights the crisis in Burma. At noon, the monks will scatter petals...

Amnesty International has condemned the Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde's decision to introduce Tasers in Northern Ireland despite not meeting human rights and equality standards as set down by the...

Paralysed prisoners in ‘chemical straitjackets’ unable to move or cry out during execution Amnesty International has called for doctors and other medical personnel to stop taking part in lethal...

We welcome this crackdown but victims have to be better protected, says Amnesty In response to the launch today (3 October 2007) of Operation Pentameter 2, the new government initiative to crack down...

Responding to the news that an Ohio judge in the United States has set Scotsman Kenny Richey's bail at $10 million, Amnesty International's Scottish Programme Director John Watson said: "Obviously it...

Amnesty International has condemned the Taleban’s hanging of a 15-year-old boy, supposedly for “spying”. The killing, of a boy named Zainullah, occurred on 30 September, when he taken from a bazaar...