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East Timor: Impunity culture to blame for assasination attempts, says Amnesty

Failure to strengthen legal institution has left East Timor trapped in a cycle of violence As more peacekeepers arrive in East Timor under the state of emergency imposed following the shooting of...

Libya: fears for life of 66-year-old prisoner of conscience with diabetes and artery disease

Amnesty International has expressed grave concern for the life of a 66-year-old man being held in Libya who is suffering from diabetes, high blood pressure and coronary artery disease and is being...

USA: Potential Guantanamo executions after torture and unfair trial

The Pentagon’s announcement that it has charged six “high-value” detainees at Guantánamo Bay raises yet more questions about the USA’s conduct in the “war on terror”, said Amnesty International...

Forced evictions in Cambodia: homes razed, lives in ruins

Amnesty International report published today reveals horrors faced by thousands “ I lost my house, rice and belongings like clothes and utensils. All houses were burned down and destroyed by the...

Future of the Arms Treaty in hands of 28 government experts

Talks starting today in the UN offer an historic way forward on conventional arms control, say Control Arms campaigners. Today 28 delegates from every continent will sit on the Group of Governmental...

Poetry competition: Pupils challenged to produce poems without pen and paper

Nationwide competition asks UK’s schoolChildren's rights to imagine life as a detainee Amnesty International today launched a poetry competition for secondary schools across the UK, but with a twist...

Sri Lanka: Amnesty report reveals surge in violence against journalists

Threats to the media and media freedoms have increased dramatically As hostilities in Sri Lanka intensify and human rights abuses increase, threats to the media and media freedoms inside the country...

Chad: Authorities must prevent unlawful killings

Three men allegedly unlawfully executed by members of the Chadian army The Chadian government must prevent extrajudicial killings in the aftermath of clashes between rebel and government forces...

China: Six months countdown marred by repression

Amnesty International fears for human rights activist Amnesty International is gravely concerned that the Chinese authorities are putting pressure on human rights activist Hu Jia to plead guilty to...

China: Six months until the Olympics and human rights have not improved

With tomorrow (8 February) marking six months until the start of the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International today said that it had seen little improvement in human rights in the country, despite...