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Patrick Finucane was shot dead on 12 February 1989 by Loyalist paramilitaries; since then, evidence has emerged which strongly suggests that there was official collusion by both the army and the...

On 7 February General Gallardo, a prisoner of conscience detained for over eight years, was released after President Fox ordered that his sentence be reduced to time served. Amnesty International...

'Since 1992, despite Algeria's obligations under domestic law and international human rights standards, successive governments have not only failed to take the necessary measures to ensure that...

Meeting for the first time since 2000, the National Assembly was told by President Issayas Afewerki that eleven former government officials, arrested in September 2001, and who have remained in...

According to MBDHP, the unburied dead bodies were found handcuffed, bullet-ridden and 'thrown to the dogs and vultures'. Reports say the bodies were found throughout the country, in areas such as Bobo...

'We saw both populations, Palestinians and Jews, living in fear. Every Palestinian in the Occupied Territories is affected in a cycle of repression which is bringing people to despair. Israelis are...

Passaic County Jail and the Hudson County Correctional Facility are run by the local county, but have contracts with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) to house INS detainees. Amnesty...

'The charges on which Saad Eddin Ibrahim and the other human rights defenders were convicted and imprisoned in May 2001 are a pretext to punish them for criticizing government policies. They should be...

The laws were promulgated by royal decree after 11 September, without passing through the Jordanian parliament. They are part of a worrying trend and came on the heels of additional new laws...

President Musharraf had indicated in his speech to the nation on 12 January that sectarian violence had undermined the writ of the government and needed to be brought to an end. He said that in the...