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Press releases in 2008

Conviction of human rights activist betrays China's Olympic promises, says Amnesty

Hu Jia jailed for three years and six months for speaking out against China’s AIDS programme Amnesty International reacted angrily to today’s news that a human rights defender has been sentenced to...

China: World leaders and IOC should demand release of human rights activist Hu Jia

Amnesty International today condemned the decision by Chinese authorities to convict human rights defender Hu Jia on charges of ‘inciting subversion of state power'. Hu Jia is being punished for...

Jamaica: Poorer communities neglected by government and left to the mercy of gang leaders

Hundreds of thousands of Jamaicans have been condemned to live with violent criminal gangs and abusive policing revealed Amnesty International today in a new report launched at a press conference in...

China: Silence of the International Olympic Committee and world leaders is tacit endorsement of abuse, says Amnesty

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world leaders, including Prime Minister Gordon Brown, must speak out strongly and in public against human rights abuses in Tibet and elsewhere in China or...