Press releases in 2010

Torture, unlawful killings and sexual assault regularly committed by Security Service agents – new Amnesty report Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out a brutal...

Amnesty International is calling on the Singapore authorities to immediately release British author Alan Shadrake, who was arrested for criminal defamation yesterday after he published a book critical...

Cluster bomb components delivered on ships registered and operated by UK companies, in spite of UK commitment to ban the weapons – new Amnesty report States are failing to adequately control the...

‘Peace without justice or human rights is not real peace’ - Sam Zarifi Plans for a peace deal with the Taleban in Afghanistan could seriously jeopardise the rights of the Afghan people, in particular...

Amnesty International UK, Broederlijk Delen, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Christian Aid Ireland, CCFD, Cordaid, Diakonia, FIDH, Finn Church Aid, Handicap International, ICCO, IKV Pax Christi, Medical Aid to...

The disclosure in the High Court on 14 July 2010 of a number of previously secret documents relating to the UK authorities’ knowledge of and involvement in the detention of UK nationals and UK...

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, is still held on death row and could still face execution, warned Amnesty International today (16 July) as it launched a new web appeal on her...

Patients turn to addictive narcotics as tuberculosis makes comeback Amputation and other major surgeries carried out without anaesthesia are just one indication of the dire state of North Korea’s...

Amnesty International has called on the Kenyan authorities to halt the forced evictions in a Nairobi settlement that have left hundreds of families homeless and destitute. A bulldozer from the Nairobi...

Sixteen members of Combatants for Peace - a bi-national movement of Israelis and Palestinians who have put down their guns to engage in dialogue, reconciliation and joint non-violent struggle - will...