Press releases in 2008

Former Irish President Mary Robinson is to tell a packed Elmwood Hall that, sixty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, there is still much to be done to make rights an everyday...

UPDATE 20 OCTOBER 2008: A senior judicial official in Iran has said that the judicial execution of juvenile offenders convicted of murder will continue in the country. Hossein Zabhi, the Assistant...

Amnesty International activists take part in global events on 17 October People living in poverty are far too frequently excluded from discussions about how to improve their lives, said Amnesty...

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)...