Press releases in 2008

[Amnesty Burma expert available for interview] Amnesty International welcomes the release of U Win Tin, a 78-year-old Burmese journalist who has been the subject of the organisation's Edinburgh...

Amnesty International welcomes the release of at least seven prisoners of conscience in Burma, including 78-year-old journalist and prominent dissident U Win Tin who had been imprisoned for 19 years...

Call for an international Arms Treaty ahead of key UN meeting in October Weapons transfers that fuelled the military crackdown in Burma and the ongoing conflict ravaging the Darfur region of Sudan may...

As the world waits to see the details of the agreement reached by leaders in Zimbabwe to end the political impasse since the March elections, Amnesty International today said the agreement’s validity...

Clemency board urged to act in case where witness statements included one from illiterate man who couldn’t read his own signed statement Amnesty International is calling on the state authorities in...

Tens of thousands at risk as government tells aid agencies to leave war-torn Wanni The Sri Lankan government’s decision to tell United Nations (UN) and non-governmental aid workers to leave the war...

More than 130 crew members of at least nine ships are being held hostage by pirates off the coast of Puntland, in north-eastern Somalia. A number of the hostages are reported to have been injured...

Amnesty International has issued a call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mohamed Erraji, the 29-year-old blogger sentenced this week to two years imprisonment reportedly for “lack of...

Concert on what would have been 30th birthday for artist who died tragically young Amnesty International and the United Nations Children's rights’s Fund (UNICEF) are to be the joint beneficiaries of a...

Amnesty International demands restoration of fundamental right The Thai government should remove restrictions on free speech contained in today’s emergency decree, Amnesty International said. Benjamin...