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Turkmenistan: Total repression ahead of elections
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 3:03 pm | Amnesty International
Turkmenistan’s authorities have simply paid lip service to reform in a bid to appease the international community said Amnesty International in the run up to parliamentary elections this weekend (15 December). More >>
Asylum seekers held in cruel and prison-like regime
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 8:44 am | Amnesty International
The Australian government is holding more than 1,000 asylum seekers in shameful conditions in a processing centre on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea, said Amnesty International. More >>
India: Top court ruling re-criminalizes homosexual
Thursday, 12 December 2013, 8:19 am | Amnesty International
A ruling by India’s Supreme Court making consensual same-sex conduct between adults a criminal offence marks a black day for freedom in India, Amnesty International India said today. More >>
Russia: Bolotnaya - A Political Show Trial
Wednesday, 11 December 2013, 8:42 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is calling for the mass riot charges to be dropped against all Bolotnaya defendants. The organization considers Moscow’s ongoing Bolotnaya Square trial as a purely political attempt to paint the protesters as intent on mass ... More >>
AI brings claim against UK over State surveillance
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 11:51 am | Amnesty International
Amnesty International has today announced it has issued a claim against the UK over concerns that the organisation’s communications have been unlawfully accessed by the UK intelligence services. More >>
Central African Republic population in need of protection
Tuesday, 10 December 2013, 10:57 am | Amnesty International
The civilian population of the Central African Republic is in urgent need of protection, Amnesty International said today from the capital Bangui, four days into the worst spate of violence in the conflict to date. More >>
Mali must urgently identify bodies found in mass grave
Friday, 6 December 2013, 3:46 pm | Amnesty International
Authorities in Mali must urgently identify the 21 bodies found in a mass grave last night, believed to belong to soldiers abducted in May 2012, Amnesty International said. More >>
Central African Republic: Escalating bloodshed
Friday, 6 December 2013, 3:11 pm | Amnesty International
Revenge killings are being reported across Bangui and other parts of the Central African Republic today in the aftermath of the military clashes that happened in the early hours of the morning, Amnesty International said today. More >>
Human rights movement owes “a debt of gratitude” to Mandela
Friday, 6 December 2013, 12:55 pm | Amnesty International
Responding to the sad news of Nelson Mandela’s death, Amnesty International paid tribute today to one of the world’s most visionary leaders in the fight to protect and promote human rights. More >>
Movement owes “a debt of gratitude” to Nelson Mandela
Friday, 6 December 2013, 11:56 am | Amnesty International
Responding to the sad news of Nelson Mandela’s death, Amnesty International paid tribute today to one of the world’s most visionary leaders in the fight to protect and promote human rights. More >>
New satellite images show scale of North Korean prison camps
Thursday, 5 December 2013, 1:56 pm | Amnesty International
North Korea’s vast infrastructure of repression is further exposed in new satellite images showing the on-going development of two of the country’s largest political prison camps, Amnesty International discloses today. More >>
Israel: Reject indefinite detention of asylum-seekers
Wednesday, 4 December 2013, 8:38 am | Amnesty International
Israeli lawmakers must reject proposed amendments to the country’s Prevention of Infiltration Law, which would allow thousands of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants to be held indefinitely in a remote desert detention centre, Amnesty International ... More >>
Central African Republic: UN peacekeeping mission needed
Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 4:04 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International Press Release 2 December 2013 Central African Republic: UN peacekeeping mission needed to avoid mass slaughter More >>
UN peacekeeping mission needed to avoid mass slaughter
Monday, 2 December 2013, 3:05 pm | Amnesty International
The UN Security Council has no time to waste to authorise a robust peacekeeping force for deployment to the Central African Republic to protect civilians from the violence and chaos engulfing the country, Amnesty International said today. More >>
Indonesia: Investigate ill-treatment of protesters in Papua
Friday, 29 November 2013, 3:51 pm | Amnesty International
Amnesty International is concerned about allegations that police ill-treated protesters involved in a pro-independence protest in Papua as well as intimidated journalists who were covering it. More >>
Russia: No reason for celebration for Arctic 30
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 3:29 pm | Amnesty International
While it’s welcome news that some members of the Arctic 30 have been released on bail, Amnesty International has said that they should never have been arrested in the first place. More >>
Amnesty: John Key’s performance at CHOGM a failure
Monday, 18 November 2013, 2:26 pm | Amnesty International
Prime Minister John Key’s inaction and failure to take a strong stand on human rights in Sri Lanka is not good enough, Amnesty International said as the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo ended. More >>
Sri Lanka’s misguided attempt to ‘win the world’
Friday, 15 November 2013, 4:03 pm | Amnesty International
Everybody in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, knows all about “CHOGM” – pronounced “choggum”. They speak with enthusiasm, resignation or indignation about the fact that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is taking place here. The streets ... More >>
Crackdown on dissent continues as leaders meet for CHOGM
Thursday, 14 November 2013, 11:39 am | Amnesty International
Commonwealth leaders must use their summit in Colombo this week to pressure the Sri Lankan authorities to end their alarming crackdown on dissent, Amnesty International said. More >>
Call for NZ to stand against Sri Lanka chairing Commonwealth
Monday, 11 November 2013, 3:26 pm | Amnesty International
Prime Minister John Key announced this morning on TVNZ’s Breakfast programme that a decision has not yet been taken about whether NZ will support Sri Lanka’s bid to chair the Commonwealth for the next two years, a term that would run from the ... More >>
