Press releases in 2008

All political leaders in Lebanon must clearly instruct their supporters to refrain from recklessly carrying out attacks in heavily-populated areas that endanger civilians uninvolved in the clashes...

Former Guantánamo detainee Murat Kurnaz launches his powerful book 'Five Years of My Life: an Innocent Man in Guantánamo' at an Amnesty International event in the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival...

Leaders of Amnesty International in the Asia Pacific region, who are meeting in Hong Kong, have called on their governments to use every means possible to pressure the Burmese authorities to focus on...

Amnesty appeals to authorities to provide protection to prospective witnesses Amnesty International UK today expressed disappointment that despite six months of investigation, the United Kingdom...

Aditi Gaddam’s poem named You Can’t Jail Minds the Midlands regional winner St Clare’s School pupil Aditi Gaddam, 16, has been named as the Key Stage 4 regional winner for the Midlands in Amnesty...

Junta must ensure help goes to all victims irrespective of race, colour or creed Following the impact of Cyclone Nargis on Burma, which killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around a...

Amnesty International has launched an urgent appeal for a university professor in Saudi Arabia who has been sentenced to 150 lashes and eight months’ imprisonment for meeting a woman in a coffee shop...

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...