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Iran: New Amnesty web appeal for young woman artist facing execution

Amnesty International UK today (Sunday 15 March) launched a new UK web appeal on behalf of a 20-year-old woman artist facing execution in Iran. The organisation is asking people to go to…

Palestinian Authority: Alan Johnston Abduction - Amnesty appeal, one month on

Palestinian Authority must increase efforts to secure BBC reporter’s release Amnesty International supporters are sending ‘Urgent Action’ appeals on behalf of the abducted BBC television news reporter...

NI: Alan Johnston abduction - Northern Ireland campaigners join Amnesty appeal, one month on

Palestinian Authority must increase efforts to secure BBC reporter’s release Amnesty International supporters in Northern Ireland are sending ‘Urgent Action’ appeals on behalf of the abducted BBC...

Egypt: New report condemns ‘War on Terror’s torture chamber’

UK must abandon attempt to do deals with Egypt on ‘no torture’ assurances Amnesty International has condemned Egypt’s record on torture and illegal detention and called on other countries to abandon...

USA: Guantánamo Bay - New report shows 80% of detainees in solitary confinement

In a new report published today (5 April), Amnesty International says that 80% of detainees at the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are being held in solitary confinement, often in harsh...

West Africa: Chocolate - Amnesty International expresses alarm at continuing child labour in cocoa industry

Voluntary business code fails again as child exploitation continues in the 'chocolate fields' of West Africa With the Easter chocolate consumption frenzy just around the corner, Amnesty International...

UK: Amnesty welcomes Appeals Court decision to grant stay for Darfuri asylum seekers

Amnesty International welcomed today’s decision taken by the Court of Appeal to overturn the Home Office’s plan to forcibly return three rejected Darfuri asylum seekers to the Sudanese capital...

Chad: Government must accept UN forces to protect civilians in East

Amnesty International today (4 April) called on the Chadian government to reverse its refusal to accept a United Nations force into its eastern region bordering Sudan, after at least 25 unarmed...

Zimbabwe: Threat of police beatings and torture for Trade Unionists during ‘stay away’ action

Amnesty International is concerned that activists from the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) who will go on a job stay away action on 3 and 4 April 2007 are at risk of being beaten by police...

Viet Nam: Catholic priest punished with eight year prison sentence for internet activism

Father Nguyen Van Ly, a 60-year-old Catholic priest in View Nam who helped set up an internet petition calling for democratic change, has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment for “conducting...