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Sudan: 16-year-old Girl to be Flogged for 'Crime' of Adultery

Following the postponement of the punishment from 20 December to 23 January due to the girl's poor health, Amnesty International is also asking people all over the world to write to the Sudanese...

Sudan: No Peace While Atrocities Continue in the West with 200 Killed this Week

Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said: 'Amnesty International is receiving reports of hundreds of civilians who have been killed and their villages destroyed, and thousands of people...

Viet Nam: Death Penalty Made a State Secret? What Has Viet Nam got to Hide?

Amnesty International Media Director Lesley Warner said: 'Hiding behind draconian decrees protecting so-called 'state secrets' the Vietnamese authorities are flouting international human rights...

Chile: Threats to Transvestite Human Rights Campaigner

Rodrigo reportedly received an anonymous death threat on 16 December 2003. Two days later, someone one fired a shot at him as he walked on a street in San Felipe, to the west of Santiago. On 20...

Chile: Threats to Transvestite Human Rights Campaigner

Rodrigo reportedly received an anonymous death threat on 16 December 2003. Two days later, someone one fired a shot at him as he walked on a street in San Felipe, to the west of Santiago. On 20...

Morocco: Three-Year Sentence For Satirising Monarchy Could Be Increased

The Moroccan Court of Appeal will examine on Wednesday an appeal lodged by Ali Lmrabet's lawyer to revoke a four-month sentence he received on 21 November 2001. Lmrabet was convicted of 'disseminating...

Burma: Amnesty Finds Human Rights Deteriorating, Calls for Action Not Words

During the 17-day visit Amnesty International met with government officials and interviewed 35 political prisoners but was denied access to National League for Democracy (NLD) leader, Aung San Suu Kyi...

USA: Federal Court Challenges to 'Enemy Combatant' Detentions Must Be Heeded

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled in the case of Jose Padilla that the US government had no inherent constitutional authority to detain a US citizen as an 'enemy combatant' on US...

Liberia: Atrocities Continue as the World Turns a Blind Eye

The call follows a recent Amnesty International visit to Liberia which found that men, Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights and Children's rights in areas where UN peace-keeping...

Sudan: Peace Agreement Must Include Darfur

A recent Amnesty International mission to the Sudan-Chad border region found that villages in Darfur have been bombed by government planes and during 2003 militia groups supported by the government...