Press releases in 2012

The convictions of nine health professionals sentenced to prison terms for their role in last year’s pro-democracy uprising in Bahrain must be quashed, Amnesty International has said, responding to a...

The Tunisian authorities must drop indecency charges against a woman who was summoned to court yesterday after she had complained that police officers raped her earlier this month, Amnesty...

Victims of sexual violence in Colombia’s decades-long armed conflict face little hope of ever getting justice, Amnesty International said in a new report today. The Colombian authorities have...

The Swedish authorities should issue assurances to the UK and to Julian Assange that if he leaves Ecuador’s London embassy and agrees to go to Sweden to face sexual assault claims, he will not be...

Fears of a new wave of executions in Japan increased after two death row inmates were hanged earlier today. Sachiko Eto, 65, and Yukinori Matsuda, 39, were hanged this morning in Sendai and Fukuoka...

More than 500 prisoners kept in isolation for over 10 years Amnesty International has called on the US state of California to end “shocking” conditions in its prison isolation units, as the...

The powers of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate the deaths of 44 people near Lonmin’s Marikana mine last month must be clarified to ensure justice and redress for all those affected...

Trafigura, the multinational company behind the 2006 dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, resulting in over 100,000 people seeking medical assistance, must be criminally investigated in...

The harsh prison sentences handed down to three bloggers accused of spreading anti-state propaganda in Viet Nam are nothing short of a shameful attempt to silence dissent in the country, Amnesty...

A spate of human rights violations targeting opposition supporters and journalists in Belarus is nothing more than a clumsy attempt to suppress opposition voices ahead of elections on Sunday 23...