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UK: New details of CIA rendition flights refuelling at UK airports after prisoner transfers

The information concerns two flights in late 2001 and one in early 2002, where planes that had taken detainees to Jordan and Egypt, landed immediately afterwards at Prestwick airport in Glasgow for...

Burma: New report shows courts used to silence peaceful dissent

As the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) meets, Amnesty International is publishing a new report and sending the Burmese authorities thousands of petitions from across the world urging...

Russia: One woman an hour being killed through domestic violence - new report calls for action

With one woman every hour thought to be killed through domestic violence in Russia (1), Amnesty International is calling for urgent action to combat the crisis as it published a new report on domestic...

UK: Reaction to Mori opinion poll on torture

“These are deeply worrying findings. Let’s be clear what we are talking about here: this is not about whether evidence is useful. This is about whether it is okay to throw someone in a cell and...

USA: Execution of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams a travesty of justice

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had been asked to grant clemency in the case but declined to do so. Former gang leader Stanley Williams was sentenced to death in 1981 for a total of four...

Cymru: Caerdydd macio Diwrnod Hawliau Dynol

Ddydd Sul, 11 Rhagfyr 2005 fe wnaeth Amnest Rhyngwladol Cymru gydweithio â grŵp lleol Amnest yng Nghaerdydd er mwyn marcio Diwrnod Hawliau Dynol (10 Rhagfyr). Am 2.30 fe wnaeth gwirfoddolwyr gyfarfod...

Kenny Richey case: Disappointment at delays in justice

In January 2005 the 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeal in Cincinnati overturned Mr Richey's death sentence, demanding that the state of Ohio either release Richey or re-try his case within 90 days...

USA: Governor Schwarzenegger should halt execution of Stanley 'Tookie' Williams

Former gang leader Stanley Williams is scheduled to be executed in the early hours of Tuesday 13 December. He was sentenced to death in 1981 for a total of four murders carried out during two...

Croatia: Gotovina to go to the Hague

Ante Gotovina, who was arrested yesterday in Spain, is indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Tribunal) in The Hague on seven counts of persecutions, murder -...

UK: Law Lords ruling means UK must uphold ban on torture evidence

The Law Lords have confirmed that evidence obtained through torture is never acceptable except in proceedings against the alleged torturer. The ruling confirms the otherwise absolute inadmissibility...