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Freedom of Assembly under increasing threat

Different rallies were held by both opposition and ruling party members of the Parliament and others who are critical of the government. On 26 November 2000, at the Tumsifu Centre in Kisumu, Western...

FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE REPORT ON CHINA WELCOME

The human rights organisation welcomed today's publication of the Foreign Affairs Committee report on the Government's policies towards China. Mark Lattimer, Communications Director of Amnesty...

Concerns about risk of isolation in Turkish prisons

Amnesty International is concerned about reports that solitary confinement and small group isolation are being practised in Kartal Special Type Prisons. The organisation believes that these regimes...

GUINEA BISSAU: Freedom of expression is under attack in the aftermath of an army rebellion.

Several opposition politicians were arrested between 24 and 26 November 2000 in the capital, Bissau, accused of supporting the rebellion led by General Ansumane Mané, the former leader of the...

Torturers of Fatma Tokmak and her son go free

On 9 December 1996 Fatma Tokmak, a Kurdish woman who does not speak Turkish, was detained on suspicion that she and her husband were affiliated with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). She was held in...

Deaths of 80 people in custody must be investigated by independent experts

Although the authorities have said the bodies showed no signs of violence, the deaths on the night of 21-22 November occurred in suspicious circumstances. The Mozambican authorities have reportedly...

Amnesty International calls for deployment of human rights observers

'Various measures have been proposed by United Nations bodies, as well as the United States, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), to end the violence and human rights abuses that...

RUSSIAN FEDARATION: Continued pressure on Grigory Pasko

The human rights organization considers this court ruling as a sign of increasing pressure on environmental activists in the Russian Federation. Grigory Pasko was arrested in 1997 for treason and...

Another human rights defender killed

T. Puroshottam, Joint Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Civil Liberties Committee (APCLC), was attacked by a group of unidentified men wielding knives when he went to a local shop to buy soap this...

'THE MAN WHO CRIED' RECEIVES AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL GALA SCREENING

Sally Potter ('Orlando', 'The Tango Lesson') will personally introduce the film, a moving depiction of refugees uprooted in 1920s Soviet Union and the threats to minority groups posed by fascism in...