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The organisation raised a number of concerns about the Zimbabwean government's failure to condemn clearly and publicly acts of violence allegedly perpetrated by government supporters, which are having...

Victor Bourne was fatally shot by two members of the Quick Reaction Group* at his home in Rasville, Roxanne Burnham Gardens, Georgetown, on June 19 1998 (see Amnesty International's Annual Report for...

'We appeal to the leaders of the Abu Sayyaf group not to use innocent Children's rights and other civilians as pawns in their month long stand-off with the government. The taking and killing of...

On 31 March the Presidium of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan reversed the death sentence passed last year on a young musician named Arsen Arutyunyan, citing mitigating factors and replacing it with a...

Amnesty International has recorded 44 ' disappearances ' since the beginning of 1998 alone - 18 of which occurred during 1999 - and there is evidence that detainees have been held incommunicado in...

'The decision on the part of the authorities to try the men in a group of such a size not only risks infringing their right to a fair trial as individuals but also to the presumption of innocence,'...

44 year-old Robert Glen Coe - who has a long history of mental illness and suffered a childhood marked by his father's sexual and physical violence - is scheduled to be executed at 1.00a.m. local time...

Amnesty International stressed that the figures released today only include cases known to the organisation. 'It is impossible to give a complete total because many countries deliberately keep the...

According to the Rivers State authorities in Port Harcourt, the state capital, police went to the village of K-Dere, Gokana local government area, in the early hours of 11 April to quell inter...

At least six of those currently detained are reported to have been assaulted and denied medical treatment. One detainee who appeared in court today told the magistrate that he had been beaten on the...