Press releases in 2008

The execution of José Ernesto Medellín Rojas by the state of Texas is a violation of international law, said Amnesty International today. "It undermines the authority of the International Court of...

Amnesty International has welcomed the announcement by the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary that execution by stoning has been suspended, as a result of which several Women's rights's rightss rights...

The conviction of Salim Hamdan under procedures that do not meet international fair trial standards compounds the injustice of his more than five years' unlawful detention in Guantánamo, said Amnesty...

In response to reports that an attack on a police station in Kashgar city, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, killed 16 police officers, Amnesty International called on the Chinese authorities to...

Responding to reports that an Edinburgh man has been detained by the Chinese authorities after taking part in a protest near the main Olympics stadium in Beijing, Amnesty International's Scottish...

Amnesty urges United Nations to stop accepting Burma’s ‘hollow promises’ and backs London demonstration Twenty years after the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in Burma that were violently...

Amnesty International Scotland DIARY NOTICE and PHOTO-OPPORTUNITY: Friday 8 August, 12.30-1.00pm EDINBURGH: BURMA DEMO TO MARK 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF UPRISING Campaigners to hold aloft saffron ribbon in...

Amnesty International today welcomed the unblocking of its website in the Olympics media venues and reportedly in other parts of Beijing. But it insisted that the promise of ‘complete media freedom’...

Thousands of Mexican Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights who survive violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take...

Amnesty International today condemned the Chinese authorities’ blocking of certain websites for foreign journalists covering the Olympic Games. The organisation called on the International Olympic...