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Govinda Prasad Mainali, who was charged with murder in March 1997 and has since been in detention, had his acquittal on 14 April 2000 by the Tokyo District Court overturned by the Tokyo High Court. On...

The two, members of the Internal Dissidents' Working Group for the Analysis of the Cuban Socio-Economic Situation, were arrested in July 1997 along with two other group members, Vladimiro Roca...

The Committee highlighted areas of concern including torture and ill-treatment by police and prison guards - much of it racially motivated; the sexual abuse of female prisoners by guards; prisoner...

'The comments of the Attorney General, as reported in the press, are grossly inaccurate and misleading,' the organisation's Secretary General, Pierre Sané, added. 'This appears to be an attempt to...

{UN} troops must be adequate to fulfil their mandate to protect civilians. This requires the diplomatic commitment of the international community, in which the UK's role is crucial. That commitment...

{UN} troops must be adequate to fulfil their mandate to protect civilians. This requires the diplomatic commitment of the international community, in which the UK's role is crucial. That commitment...

UN troops must be adequate to fulfil their mandate to protect civilians. This requires the diplomatic commitment of the international community, in which the UK's role is crucial. That commitment must...

'Any peace initiative will be judged by its effectiveness in stopping the daily killings, ' disappearances ', torture and arbitrary arrest of ordinary people in Aceh for which both sides have been...

Amnesty International noted that 'Despite repeated assurances by the authorities that the accused are being given a fair trial, proceedings in this closed trial fall far short of international...

This follows recent public comments by the Minister for National Security, K D Knight, and the Reverend Irving Townsend who misrepresented those defending human rights , claiming they care little for...