Press releases in 2012

*Racial bias claims have dogged Anthony Haynes case *A judge was reprimanded for assembling guns during jury selection Amnesty International has called on the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and...

Rwanda’s military intelligence department known as “J2” has illegally held scores of civilians in military detention without charge or trial and allegedly tortured them into making false confessions...

Amnesty International has responded to allegations of torture, including waterboarding, by members of the RUC and British Army in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, broadcast today (Sunday 7 October) by...

A new “cybercrime” law in the Philippines poses serious risks to freedom of expression and must be reviewed, Amnesty International said today Under the law, known as the Cybercrime Prevention Act of...

Top-selling artists Rihanna and Shakira were told today in no uncertain terms to open their eyes to the plethora of human rights abuses inflicted on the people of Azerbaijan before they perform in the...

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...

Amnesty International has expressed its fears over the fate of a prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who disappeared along with his friend as they made their way to work earlier this week. According...

ELDERLY VICTIMS NO LONGER FACE EXCLUSION FROM INQUIRY Amnesty International has welcomed proposed changes to the Historic Institutional Abuse Bill at the Northern Ireland Assembly. The proposed...

Amnesty International has denounced the extra-judicial execution by firing squad of a man in Mali yesterday as a horrific and illegal act, and the organisation is calling for those responsible to be...

Today’s decision by Serbian Prime Minister Ivica Dacic to ban Belgrade’s Pride march for the second year in a row is “a victory for prejudice” and puts the country in breach of its own law and...