Press releases
Thursday 1 May 2008
Using the Olympic torch as an excuse to crack down on peaceful critics
is yet another bitter twist in Viet Nam’s pattern of repressing
legitimate and peaceful
Wednesday 30 April 2008
On the eve of May Day demonstrations,
Amnesty International calls upon the Turkish authorities to respect
the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and to ensure
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Tuesday 29 April 2008
In a report published today, Amnesty International revealed the extent of police violence in Mozambique, saying that police are killing and torturing people with near
Monday 28 April 2008
Ahead of a 30 April deadline set by the ruling coalition, Amnesty
International calls on the Pakistan government to reinstate around 60
judges of the higher courts r
Friday 25 April 2008
One year after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two war crimes suspects in Darfur, human rights organizations around the world are lau
Friday 25 April 2008
Amnesty International has just received information that at about 10 am (local time), five police officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Criminal Investiga
Friday 25 April 2008
Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian
government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in
Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the att
Friday 25 April 2008
Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a
man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organization strongly condemns
the execution and calls
Wednesday 23 April 2008
All shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from
China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk
that it may lead to in
Wednesday 23 April 2008
Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release
some 41 children held after a raid on Mogadishu’s Al Hidya mosque on 19
April 2008, whi
