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USA (Guantánamo Bay): Government decision to intervene for UK residents welcomed

‘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: Campaigners broadly welcome report on UK arms legislation

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...

Scotland: Amnesty Scotland steps up festival campaign for Chinese writer as new report marks one year until Beijing Olympics

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...

China: New report shows human rights abuses blighting countdown to Olympics

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...

Afghanistan: Appeal for hostage release as Taleban tell Amnesty they’re ‘trying to resolve’ South Korean kidnap situation

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...

Sudan (Darfur): New Darfur deployment must be immediate and fully resourced

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...

Iran: Kurdish cousins face execution for being ‘at enmity with God’

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”...

UK: Reaction to the judgment by the Court of Appeal in key cases in the global fight against torture

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...

UK: Amnesty Edinburgh festival programme with first in series of 'Behind-the-Fringe' comedy vodcasts

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...

UK: Extension of pre-charge detention amounts to internment

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...