Press releases in 2008

A decade after the arrest of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet in London sent a powerful warning to human rights abusers around the world, the rule of universal jurisdiction – under which he...

Poor foreign workers are bearing the brunt of Saudi Arabia’s secretive and unfair death penalty system, said Amnesty International today, as it published a new report showing that a Saudi national is...

Amnesty International has welcomed this evening’s emphatic rejection by the House of Lords of UK government plans to extend periods of pre-charge detention without charge to 42 days. The organisation...

A “ mass sleepwalk ” will take place through the streets of Leeds tonight as Amnesty International launches its new film, ‘Sleepwalk’, heralding the next phase of the organisation’s campaign against...

With Asia executing more people each year than any other part of the world, Amnesty International called today (10 October), on World Day Against the Death Penalty, for India, South Korea and Taiwan...

Amnesty International calls on MPs to remove Colonel Karuna from parliament Amnesty International today called on Sri Lankan MPs to immediately remove from Parliament the alleged war criminal...

Ahead of a new television drama based on the controversial killing in 2004 in Gaza of British national Tom Hurndall (“The Shooting Of Thomas Hurndall”, Channel Four Television, Monday 13 October)...

New report documents violence against US beef import protestors Amnesty International today found the South Korean police guilty of using excessive force earlier this year against demonstrators...

Recent attacks on independent journalists and human rights activists illustrate the risks under which they work in Russia, Amnesty International said on the eve of the second anniversary of Anna...

Amnesty calls for authorities to match words with actions in eastern state of Orissa India should match its words with its actions and ensure that members of the Christian minority community in the...