Press releases in 2010

UN Experts’ Joint Global Study on Secret Detention presented to UN Human Rights Council underscores need for states to end the use of secret detention United Nations human rights experts are scheduled...

Amnesty International has called for Israel to launch an immediate credible and independent investigation into the killing by its armed forces of at least 10 activists on boats protesting the Israeli...

Amnesty International interim Secretary General called for an international inquiry into the deaths caused by the raid on the aid flotilla in international waters outside Gaza today. “Given the...

Amnesty International has called for a thorough investigation into the deaths of dozens of people during the recent security operation in Kingston, Jamaica to arrest an alleged drug dealer. Amnesty...

Amnesty launches Annual Report of human rights worldwide Torture in 111 countries, free speech curbs in 96, unfair trials in 55 The Scottish Government should make the protection of human rights a...

Torture in 111 countries, free speech curbs in 96, unfair trials in 55 A global justice gap is being made worse by power politics despite a landmark year for international justice, said Amnesty...

Torture in 111 countries, free speech curbs in 96, unfair trials in 55, prisoners of conscience in 48 Three deaths of security force members in Northern Ireland, mixed progress on historical public...

An imminent UN Security Council resolution to withdraw peacekeeping troops from eastern Chad will put the safety of thousands of refugees and other vulnerable groups at risk, Amnesty International has...

In response to the announcement by the UK Foreign Secretary, William Hague, confirming that the UK government will hold an inquiry into allegations of UK complicity in torture and other human rights...

The fourteen year sentence imposed on a Malawian couple convicted of “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts” is an outrage, Amnesty International said today. Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga were...