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Uganda: Soldiers executed after unfair trial

The executions confirm fears expressed by Amnesty International, following the execution of two other UPDF soldiers in March 2002, that the Ugandan Army has adopted the use of the death penalty as an...

Bosnia-Herzegovina : Time to end impunity for 'disappearances'

It is estimated that over 17,000 persons remain unaccounted for after the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina seven years ago. Many of these people 'disappeared' after having last been sighted in the...

Turkmenistan: President Niazov should keep promise, release imprisoned ecologist

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, the International League for Human Rights, and the Memorial Human Rights Centre called for the...

Turkmenistan: Court should release ecologist Farid Tukhbatullin

The trial against Farid Tukhbatullin will apparently start on 4 March in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat. There are well-founded fears that he might face an unfair trial. Furthermore Farid...

Syria: elections provide opportunity to release independent MPs

Interior Minister Ali Hammud has said: 'Candidacies are open to any citizen who wants to assume his civic responsibilities,' and 'We have taken all steps to make these elections a success by...

Liberia: Contact Group must condemn violations by Government and LURD forces

The international community's commitment to resolve the internal armed conflict and bring peace and security to Liberia must include initiatives to end the serious human rights abuses against...

Russia: Trafficking of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights - Amnesty International UK supports release of new feature film, Lilya 4-Ever

The film, opening in cinemas in the UK on 25 April, is by acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson, and deals with the issue of Women's rights's rightss rights's rights's rights's rights being...

UK: Asylum - Figures show Iraqis need protection and system needs support, not undermining

Despite the possibility of an imminent US/UK-led military attack on Iraq and of the prospect of very large population movements, the UK is still refusing asylum applications from northern Iraq -...

Algeria: Human rights abuses acute as change promised

The Amnesty International delegation, having returned to Algeria for the human rights organisation's first visit to the country for two and half years, concluded a two-week visit today, after...

Cuba: Government must release prisoners of conscience immediately

'All Cuban citizens must be guaranteed their rights to freedom of association, assembly and expression. We are extremely concerned at the mass arrests that took place in February and December 2002...