Press releases in 2009

The Turkish authorities are nowhere near bringing to justice all those who bear responsibility for the murder of Hrant Dink, said Amnesty International on the second anniversary of the death of the...

Amnesty International has strongly condemned the murder in Moscow earlier today of lawyer and human rights defender Stanislav Markelov. Mr Markelov was shot dead today in the centre of Moscow as he...

As part of a new "100-day campaign”, Amnesty International in Northern Ireland has today (16 January) launched a powerful new online “viral” film on expectations around the incoming government of...

Amnesty International delegates currently in Gaza have found indisputable evidence of the widespread use of white phosphorus in densely populated residential areas in Gaza City and in the north...

By rejecting a ruling by the Inter American Court of Human Rights and calling on the government to reject the American Convention on Human Rights, the Venezuelan Supreme Court is sending a dangerous...

As part of a new “100-day campaign” , Amnesty has today launched a powerful new online “viral” film on expectations around the incoming government of Barack Obama. The two-minute film (available at...

All those responsible for Engin Çeber’s death must face justice in fair proceedings, Amnesty International said today as the 60 state officials implicated in his death prepare to go on trial on 21...

Amnesty International deplores the execution by stoning of two men – Houshang Khodadadeh and another unidentified man - in Mashhad, north-east Iran, probably on 26 December 2008 and urges the...

Amnesty International is calling for an immediate and independent investigation into the Israeli army's shelling this morning of a United Nations compound in Gaza City, disrupting the distribution of...

Man Who Fled to Vienna Had Accused Chechen President of Torture (Moscow) The Austrian government should act swiftly to bring to justice those responsible for the killing of a Chechen man who had...