Press releases
Wednesday 18 March 2009
The Cuban government should immediately release the 57 prisoners of conscience who have been held for over six years and respect the right to freedom expression and as
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Amnesty International today revealed that up to 1,000 people in The Gambia have been kidnapped from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret dete
Mexico: Charges against four Indigenous prisoners of conscience dropped, but one still unfairly held
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Amnesty International today welcomed the decision to drop the charges
against four Indigenous human rights defenders, who have been
imprisoned for nearly a year in G
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Amnesty International today urged Pope Benedict XVI to express the importance of eradicating discrimination based on sexual orientation, as he visits Cameroon on his f
Friday 13 March 2009
The Malaysian government should stop persecuting six bloggers charged today for comments criticizing a Malaysian Sultan, Amnesty International said today. One of the b
Thursday 12 March 2009
By continuing to hold five indigenous human rights defenders on fabricated charges, the Mexican authorities are disregarding the human rights commitments made to the U
Thursday 12 March 2009
Amnesty International today called for the immediate intervention of Iraq’s Justice Minister to stop the execution of 128 prisoners on death row, amid reports th
Thursday 12 March 2009
Freedom of expression in Afghanistan faces increasing threats from the government as well as anti-government forces, Amnesty International warned today.
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Human rights activists in the Middle East and North Africa still face imprisonment, torture, persecution and repression for seeking to uphold the rights of others, mor
Monday 9 March 2009
Amnesty International today called on the Chinese government to immediately open Tibet to human rights monitors and the media and to end its “Strike Hard”
