February 2006

In February 2006, young people from Hackney Borough took part in a unique project with Brazilian performers Afro Reggae and Amnesty International UK. Posted: 28 Feb 2006

The recent spate of killings of civilians is a serious and deliberate breach of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today in response to reports of killings of civilians attributed to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC), in the departments of Caquetá and Huila. Posted: 28 Feb 2006

Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of a police officer from the Jamaican Constabulary Force of the murder of a 25 year old man in November 2000 - the first conviction of a Jamaican police officer for murder committed while on duty since October 1999. The organisation, however, expressed concern that there continues to be insufficient will on the part of the security and justice systems in Jamaica to effectively tackle impunity for police killings. Posted: 24 Feb 2006

Amnesty International today (23 February) released a damning 83-page report exposing the damaging effect of the UK's anti-terrorism policies on human rights. Posted: 23 Feb 2006

After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still imprisoned in connection with the crackdown on the 1989 pro-democracy movement to be freed. Posted: 23 Feb 2006

Amnesty International today called on the DRC government to take concrete steps to identify and bring to justice individuals, including state officials, responsible for threatening Congolese human rights activists. The organization is concerned about several threats or attacks against human rights defenders across the country in recent months, including an apparently concerted campaign of intimidation against one of the country's foremost independent rights organizations, Journalistes en danger (JED). Posted: 22 Feb 2006

In response to the launch today (21 February) of the new anti-sex trafficking drive Operation Pentameter, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'Amnesty welcomes Operation Pentameter and the new commitment to sending traffickers the message that this vicious trade in women will not be tolerated.' Posted: 21 Feb 2006

Several Chinese activists who have supported or participated in a series of protest hunger-strikes since 4 February have been arrested or gone missing. Amnesty International calls on the authorities to clarify their exact whereabouts, guarantee their safety and free them unless they are charged with a recognisably criminal offence. Posted: 21 Feb 2006

Amnesty International UK is supporting the award-winning play The Exonerated, as it begins a 16-week run at the Riverside Studios theatre in London. Posted: 20 Feb 2006

Responding to the publication today of a United Nations report on the US detention centre in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, Amnesty International echoed the UN's call for the camp to be closed down. Posted: 16 Feb 2006

Impunity and attacks on freedom of expression are threatening the upcoming Congressional and Presidential elections in Colombia, says Amnesty International, in the run-up to a visit by the Andean Delegation of the European Parliament. Posted: 15 Feb 2006

Responding to new broadcast images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail in 2003, Amnesty International today called for a full investigation, extending beyond the Baghdad prison. Posted: 15 Feb 2006

Amnesty International has learned that on Saturday 11 February 2006 at approximately 12pm local time, armed police and security forces arrived in 15 cars at Juba University in Bahri, Khartoum at the request of university officials. Without warning, they began beating, with batons, a group of students that were gathered peacefully in front of the Administration building. Posted: 13 Feb 2006

NIO Minister David Hanson has told campaigners that he is to meet soon with Northern Ireland's main political parties in an effort to move forward on establishing a Bill of Rights. Posted: 12 Feb 2006

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