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India: Gujarat Violence Four years On: Amnesty International welcomes due process of justice

Amnesty International welcomes the move by the authorities to bring to justice perpetrators of a massacre during the Gujarat communal violence in 2002. A Mumbai special court has now sentenced nine...

NI: Amnesty stages photo exhibition in over 50 libraries

Amnesty International is to stage a powerful photographic exhibition in more than 50 libraries to coincide with International Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights’s Day (March...

Colombia: Amnesty International Condemns Deliberate Killings of Civilians by FARC Guerrillas

The recent spate of killings of civilians is a serious and deliberate breach of international humanitarian law, Amnesty International said today in response to reports of killings of civilians...

UK: Amnesty goes local with the control arms message

In February 2006, young people from Hackney Borough took part in a unique project with Brazilian performers AfroReggae and Amnesty International UK. Using their inspirational music,dance, acrobatic...

Jamaica: First police officer in six years convicted of murder while on duty

Amnesty International has welcomed the conviction of a police officer from the Jamaican Constabulary Force of the murder of a 25 year old man in November 2000 – the first conviction of a Jamaican...

China: Torture leaves freed Tiananmen dissident mentally ill

After 16 years, Tiananmen dissident Yu Dongyue was finally freed from prison yesterday, but with his mental health impaired. Amnesty International welcomed his release and called for all others still...

UK: Government's

Amnesty International today (23 February) released a damning 83-page report exposing the damaging effect of the UK's anti-terrorism policies on human rights. Irene Khan, Amnesty International's...

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC): Time to end threats against human rights defenders

Amnesty International today called on the DRC government to take concrete steps to identify and bring to justice individuals, including state officials, responsible for threatening Congolese human...

China: Amnesty International fears for missing hunger-strike activists

Several Chinese activists who have supported or participated in a series of protest hunger-strikes since 4 February have been arrested or gone missing. Amnesty International calls on the authorities...

Sex trafficking: Amnesty welcomes Operation Pentameter but calls for protection for trafficking victims

In response to the launch today (21 February) of the new anti-sex trafficking drive Operation Pentameter, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: “Amnesty welcomes Operation Pentameter and...