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Fiji: Draconian measures sees state censorship in newsrooms

An Amnesty International fact-finding mission to Fiji has uncovered a rapidly deteriorating human rights situation and a civilian population living in fear as a result of draconian measures...

Zimbabwe: Independence Day - Time for action, not just words

As Zimbabwe prepares to commemorate its Independence Day tomorrow, Amnesty International warned that continuing human rights abuses by elements within the government risk undermining the inclusive...

USA: Torture memo gives 'get out of jail free' card, says Amnesty

Amnesty International today responded to news that the US Department of Justice has released memos that provided the legal framework for the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other illegal interrogation...

Sri Lanka: Medics tell Amnesty that food and medicine running low as casualties keep increasing

Amnesty International today (17 April) called on the government of Sri Lanka and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) to declare an immediate humanitarian truce so an estimated 100,000...

Nigeria: Police 'Disappear' four people in Niger Delta

Amnesty International today (17 April) warned that police in the Niger Delta region are increasingly using illegal and violent means to tackle suspected militants and criminals in the area – including...

Amnesty demo at Iranian Embassy for young woman facing execution by Monday

Amnesty International members will demonstrate outside the Iranian embassy at 9am on Monday (20 April) against the scheduled execution of a young Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's...

Sudan: Director of Darfur torture treatment center in incommunicado detention

Amnesty International today (16 April) expressed concern for the safety of the director of a Darfur torture treatment centre, following his recent arrest by National Intelligence and Security Services...

India: Government has failed victims of 1984 Sikh massacre

‘A national disgrace’ – says Amnesty International Twenty five years after the 1984 massacre of thousands of Sikhs in Delhi and elsewhere immediately after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira...

Sudan: Execution of nine potentially innocent men deplored

Amnesty International has deplored the execution of nine people yesterday in Sudan, saying that the nine men may have been innocent. There are concerns that the nine hanged men were convicted of the...

Iraq/Kurdistan: 'Asayish' security force ' a law unto itself'-New report

* Detainees held without charge or trial for almost a decade * Improving Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s rights blighted by ‘honour killings’ and forced marriage Security...