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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Scotland: Amnesty warns that Scottish airports are not taking steps to prevent 'torture flights'

Amnesty International today (29 March 2007) warned that Scottish airports are failing to take appropriate steps to ensure that so-called "torture flights" are unable to land on Scottish soil. The move...

USA: Guantánamo Bay - release of UK resident Bisher Al-Rawi welcomed

New call for UK government to act for UK residents at Guantánamo Bay Responding to today’s news that Bisher al-Rawi, a UK resident from Kingston-on Thames, is set to be released from the US military...