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With Juan Raul Garza due to be executed under US federal government law next week*, Amnesty International calls on the Swedish Presidency of the EU to underline the EU's strong opposition to the death...

'The weeks since the announcement of the election results on 27 May 2001 have been marked by a pattern of government harassment and repression of the opposition,' Amnesty International said. As the...

'Lethal force should never be used when lives are not in danger,' Amnesty International said. 'Only if full investigations are made into every killing will human life once again be given a value in...

'During the last US Navy exercises in late April, dozens of people reported being subjected to unnecessary force and ill-treatment by Navy personnel,' the organization added, urging the US Navy to...

The judgment, by a civilian jury, found three of the four accused guilty of all charges and a fourth guilty of some and not-guilty of others. The trial and conviction of the accused is the latest step...

Throughout the month of June, from Brazil to Uganda and the Philippines, campaigners affiliated to the International Action Network on Small Arms Transfers (IANSA), with the help of Oxfam...

The organization deeply regrets this failure of human rights leadership at the highest levels of government in the USA. 'President George W. Bush's record on the death penalty is well-known across the...

Gopalgonj is 100 km south of the capital Dhaka. It is the home district of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and an Awami League constituency. Baniarchar is one of three Churches in the area. No one has...

On 6 and 7 June 2001 54 men were brought before the public prosecution in Cairo facing accusations of 'immoral behaviour' and 'contempt of religion'. The men remain in detention since their arrest...

'This is a day of hope for Guatemala,' the organization continued. 'Despite the many delays and the attacks, threats and intimidation suffered by judges and witnesses involved in the case, this ruling...