Press releases
Tuesday 21 October 2008
(Abuja) Amnesty International today said that hundreds of those awaiting execution on Nigeria’s death rows did not have a fair trial and may therefore be innocen
Tuesday 21 October 2008
Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh should be freed immediately as there have never
been legal grounds for his conviction or sentence, Amnesty
International said today, in respon
Friday 17 October 2008
Amnesty International, the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Human Rights Watch called upon authorities
in Bosnia and Herzegovina no
Thursday 16 October 2008
Media advisory: People living in poverty are far too frequently excluded from discussions about how to improve their lives, Amnesty International said
Thursday 16 October 2008
Amnesty International calls on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary to apply with immediate effect today’s announcement that it will end the death penalty for thos
Wednesday 15 October 2008
A decade after the arrest of former Chilean President Augusto Pinochet
in London sent a powerful warning to human rights abusers around the
world, the rule of univer
Tuesday 14 October 2008
For the second time in one month Turkish law enforcement officials have
expelled the same group of Uzbekistani refugees into Iranian territory
in flagrant disregard
Friday 10 October 2008
With Asia executing more people each year than any other part of the world, Amnesty International called today, on World Day Against the Death Penalty, for India, Sout
Friday 10 October 2008
The Saudi Arabian government continues to execute people at an average of more than two a week, Amnesty International said in a new report today. Almost half of them -
Friday 10 October 2008
Amnesty International calls for a prompt, independent and impartial
investigation into the circumstances of the death of 29 year old Engin
Ceber who died today after
