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Kurdish girls raped and sexually abused in police custody

and sexually abused in police custody over several days earlier this year, demonstrating a continuing cycle of violence against young people in Turkish police stations, Amnesty International warned...

Chechnya: Amnesty International appeals to the OSCE

people, because these are the people mainly left in the town. The fighters never suffer; it's always the peaceful civilians. So many people died and so many people were like me; I am just a drop in...

BANNEDÌ LEG SHACKLES STILL MADE IN ENGLAND -- No progress on export controls expected in QueenÌs Speech

Amnesty International is calling for legislation to prevent UK transfers from contributing to human rights abuses abroad, but despite last yearís White Paper on the issue receiving cross-party...

30 years on -- time for action

At a time when Libya seeks to end its isolation and develop its international diplomatic, cultural and commercial ties, it has yet to take steps to improve its human rights record, Amnesty...

Amnesty International mission reports on serious human rights abuses

(Honiara, Solomon Islands, 30 September 1999) -- A 20-day Amnesty International mission to Guadalcanal and Malaita Provinces has documented serious human rights abuses in the context of the country's...

Civilians dying around the capital while hundreds of thousands are forcibly moved

Amnesty International today expressed concern for the safety of the hundreds of thousands of Burundians who have recently been moved from their homes by the military in the area around the capital...

Pinochet case -- No question now: extradite or prosecute

London -- The case for extradition or prosecution in the UK is now stronger than ever, Amnesty International said, as the hearings to determine whether Augusto Pinochet will be extradited to Spain...

100 executed - time to stop the killing

Wednesday's executions in Saudi Arabia bring the total number of people put to death by the state this year to 100, Amnesty International said today.

Asylum-seekers detained in the USA: a disproportionate and harsh measure

One of the main architects of the international system of refugee protection is systematically violating the basic rights of asylum-seekers%link% , Amnesty International said today, in a new report...

Concern over arrest and detention of possible prisoner of conscience

Amnesty International has written to the Egyptian government to express its concern over the arrest and detention, earlier this month, of 20 Egyptian professionals for their alleged affiliation with...