Press releases in 2012

31 types of torture - including ‘crucifixion’-type beatings, electric shocks, use of pincers on flesh, male rape with broken bottle or metal skewer

Hundreds of people languish in arbitrary, illegal and often incommunicado detention in Sri Lanka, vulnerable to torture and extrajudicial execution, despite the end of the country’s long conflict...

International forces in Afghanistan need to ensure greater accountability for civilian casualties, Amnesty International said in the wake of the killing of 16 people, among them nine Children's rights...

The British government has proposed changes to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) which would reverse progress towards access to justice for individuals challenging state...

Human rights organisations across Ethiopia are being forced to close offices and lay off staff because of a ‘crippling’ law, said Amnesty International today in a new report. Amnesty’s report...

Decision is ‘travesty of justice’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui The acquittal of an Egyptian military doctor accused of carrying out forced "virginity tests" on Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's...

‘The “virginity tests” trial is a rare opportunity for Egypt’s military to signal that torture by the army does not go unpunished’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui The final session of the trial of an Egyptian...

‘It is time for the authorities to come clean about who is being held for acts of protest and on what basis’ - Philip Luther A year after the planned "Day of Rage" demonstration in Riyadh, at least...

Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa: only a half a revolution? Four leading Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s human rights activists from the Middle East and North...

The arrest of Joseph Kony, a prominent leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), must be carried out in accordance with human rights standards, Amnesty International said today following the massive...