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Sudan: No Peace While Atrocities Continue in the West with 200 Killed this Week

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'Amnesty International is receiving reports of hundreds of civilians who have been killed and their villages destroyed, and thousands of people...

Sudan: 16-year-old Girl to be Flogged for 'Crime' of Adultery

Following the postponement of the punishment from 20 December to 23 January due to the girl's poor health, Amnesty International is also asking people all over the world to write to the Sudanese...

Mexico: Human Rights Defenders Threatened After Highlighting Police Involvement in Murder

An anonymous caller rang the CEFPRODHAC offices in Reynosa and said: 'Shut your mouths, now,' one day after the organisation's president Arturo Solis appeared in regional newspapers calling for a full...

Chile: Threats to Transvestite Human Rights Campaigner

Rodrigo reportedly received an anonymous death threat on 16 December 2003. Two days later, someone one fired a shot at him as he walked on a street in San Felipe, to the west of Santiago. On 20...

Chile: Threats to Transvestite Human Rights Campaigner

Rodrigo reportedly received an anonymous death threat on 16 December 2003. Two days later, someone one fired a shot at him as he walked on a street in San Felipe, to the west of Santiago. On 20...

Morocco: Three-Year Sentence For Satirising Monarchy Could Be Increased

The Moroccan Court of Appeal will examine on Wednesday an appeal lodged by Ali Lmrabet's lawyer to revoke a four-month sentence he received on 21 November 2001. Lmrabet was convicted of 'disseminating...