Press releases in 2010

The Indonesian government must immediately initiate an independent, effective and impartial inquiry into allegations that a peaceful political activist was repeatedly denied access to adequate medical...

Amnesty International has urged the Indian authorities to carry out an effective investigation into a video clip that appears to show detainees in Kashmir being stripped and humiliated by security...

Amnesty International has urged the French authorities to comply with a European Parliament resolution to suspend its policy of expulsions of Roma from the country. European MPs passed a key...

Amnesty International calls for an end to the harassment of human rights defenders and political activists in Swaziland following the arrest of nearly 50 people at an activists’ gathering in the city...

Amnesty International has urged Mozambique’s police not to use live ammunition to disperse violent demonstrations in the capital Maputo unless lives are at risk. Thirteen people are reported to have...

Amnesty International today strongly condemned recent attacks, one of them fatal, against Israeli civilians in the occupied West Bank and urged the 13 Palestinian armed groups who have issued a...

Amnesty International has written to the UK government urging it to ensure that a promised review of counter-Security with human rights powers will recommend immediate reform of those measures that...

Amnesty International has urged the Saudi Arabian authorities to urgently investigate allegations by a Sri Lankan woman that she was seriously abused while employed as a domestic servant in Saudi...

Amnesty International is calling on the UN General Assembly to adopt a resolution ensuring the urgent establishment of an international commission of inquiry into serious human rights violations...

Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights must be treated as victims of crime not as illegal immigrants Amnesty International has welcomed the police action that has led to the rescue...