Press releases in 2008

Amnesty International today released a report revealing the dire human rights and humanitarian crisis facing the people of Somalia. The report contains first-hand testimony from scores of traumatised...

Report calls for halt to all executions amid ‘lethal lottery’ Publishing the first ever large-scale study into India’s use of the death penalty, Amnesty International has revealed a system riddled...

Releases come shortly after new anti-‘waterboarding’ film denounces torture Following the release of nine detainees from the US-run military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International has...

Peaceful protestors held despite being over 1,000 miles away from relay route In yet another bitter twist in Vietnam’s pattern of repressing legitimate and peaceful dissent, the country’s authorities...