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Amnesty International fears that several hundred Addis Ababa University students, who were arrested during demonstrations earlier this week, are being held incommunicado without charge, and are being...
Currently the same former Belmarsh detainees are subject to control orders under the Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 - the same measures that were so roundly criticised by the CoE Commissioner for...
According to the Guatemalan authorities, 1,188 Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and girls were murdered between 2001 and 2004. Many of the victims have been raped or sexually...
Benjamin Zephaniah said: "For many years Jamaica was associated with freedom fighters and liberators, so it hurts when I see that the home of my parents is now associated with the persecution of...
At the meeting, the Secretary General pledged the organisation's full support for the McCartney family's call for justice and not revenge for the murder of Robert McCartney. The McCartney family's...
Amnesty International fears that several hundred Addis Ababa University students, who were arrested during demonstrations earlier this week, are being held incommunicado without charge, and are being...
In a report released today, Equatorial Guinea - A trial with too many flaws , Amnesty International exposes in detail the series of human rights violations seen throughout the uncovering and...
The Security Council is preparing to consider reports on the implementation of the "completion strategy". To date only 37 people have received a final sentence for their crimes in the Yugoslav wars...
Kolawole Olaniyan, Director of Amnesty International’s Africa Programme, "This announcement brings hope for justice and accountability for the victims of killings, massive forced displacement and...
The organisation also called for the release of those imprisoned in 1989 or jailed since for seeking a reassessment of events at Tiananmen. Amnesty highlighted the case of Shi Tao, a writer and...