Press releases in 2007

‘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...

Amnesty International welcomed UN Security Council resolution for strengthened peacekeeping force into Darfur Amnesty International today (1 August) welcomed last night's unanimous vote by the UN...

Sheffield man appeals for his brother to be spared hanging Amnesty International has today called for death sentences against two Kurdish cousins in Iran to be commuted as it issued an “urgent action”...

On 30 July 2007 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales gave judgment in an important test case concerning the appeals of three Algerian men against their deportation to Algeria on “national security...

Amnesty International announces the launch of its Edinburgh Festival programme today (30 July) with the release of the first in a series of Festival video podcasts (vodcasts) and podcasts. Free to...

Amnesty International today condemned the UK government's proposal to extend the period for which people can be detained by the police under terrorism legislation to 56 days. Nicola Duckworth...