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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...

Darwin -- Amnesty International is concerned about reports of lack of co-operation by the Indonesian authorities into on-going investigations of killings in East Timor%link% , including that of...

'It is ironic that the East Timorese people, who voted for independence from Indonesia, are now at the mercy of a government that has forced them into its own territory, only to continue terrorizing...

As the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary on 1 October, many people in China are still being denied their fundamental human rights.

'I saw the most terrible thing that will stay in my memory forever. I saw a man being executed. He was a Timorese man.... His back was facing me and I could see that his hands were tied. He was naked...

Following the adoption of a resolution on East Timor%link% by the Commission on Human Rights at its special session in Geneva , Amnesty International said that it was now the UN%link% Secretary...

With two days before the East Timorese people are able to make their voices heard, the human rights situation in East Timor has worsened further, threatening not only the lives of the East Timorese...

The British authorities have only two legal avenues open to them in the Pinochet

The consideration of Cameroon's third periodic report by the United Nations%link% (UN) Human Rights Committee (HRC) on 27 and 28 October in Geneva provides an important opportunity for serious...

Last week was National Non-Violence Week in the USA. This week, five men are scheduled to be executed in five states -- bringing the year's total to 86. 'These two approaches to confronting violence...