Press releases in 2009

Responding to reports that the Metropolitan Police’s Human Trafficking Team may be disbanded, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “We’re extremely concerned that if the Met’s highly...

New letter to President Medvedev urges action, as attacks continue Human rights activists in Russia and the North Caucasus are facing increasing violence and intimidation three years after the...

The execution of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini in Iran today (5 October) - for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 - must be stopped, Amnesty International warned today. Amnesty...

Amnesty International today (5 October) welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of committing a murder while still a child. Abbas Hosseini...

Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate mounting reports of deliberate killings, rape and other human rights abuses by security forces in Conakry...

Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti must rescind a decree that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew, said Amnesty...

Darfuri refugee Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad...

Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls who were raped during the 1992...

Amnesty International condemns upholding of sentence Amnesty International today condemned the decision by a Shariah Court in Malaysia to uphold the decision to sentence a 32-year-old woman to six...

Richard Hughes, the drummer from best-selling rock band Keane has spoken today of how he was inspired by the strength of man he has visited on death row in Georgia, USA. Richard Hughes, 34, Keane’s...