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Archive for: 01/2006

  • Reaction to Europe’s report on renditions

    Publication of the Council of Europe's interim report on the issue of extraordinary renditions and secret detention centres in Europe is a step towards uncovering the truth about the extent to which US agents are carrying out renditions and related practices in Europe. However it makes clear that serious questions still need to be answered by a number of European governments.

  • Rwanda: Freedom of expression under attack

    Amnesty International today expressed concerns for the safety of Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, the editor of the independent fortnightly newspaper, Umuco.

  • Turkey: Court drops case against novelist Orhan Pamuk

    Amnesty International welcomes reports on 23 January that the case against Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk has been dropped

  • Sudan: AI representative detained and activists harassed

    Amnesty International today expressed serious concern about the safety of human rights defenders in Sudan, following the detention of delegates, including an Amnesty International representative, at a non-governmental organization forum being held in Khartoum.

  • Swaziland: Persistent failure to call police to account

    Amnesty International today renewed its call on the government of Swaziland to take immediate and visible steps to prevent the torture and unlawful killing of crime suspects and political opponents by the police.

  • Liberia: New president must act now on Taylor

    Liberias new president, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, should take prompt action to ensure that former Liberian President Charles Taylor is surrendered to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Campaign Against Impunity said in an open letter to President Johnson-Sirleaf.

  • Albania: a step forward for justice for women

    Amnesty International welcomes recent initiatives to introduce legislation in Albania to prevent violence against the family and to protect victims of such violence.

  • Australia: Papuans seek asylum

    On 18 January 2006 a boat carrying 43 asylum seekers reached the Australian mainland at Cape York.

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina: Widespread discrimination blocking refugee return

    Discrimination in employment continues to be one of the most serious obstacles to the return of refugees and internally displaced people to their homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Amnesty International said today.

  • Nigeria: Forced evictions in Lagos make thousands homeless

    Hundreds of Nigerians are still sleeping out in the open nearly nine months after bulldozers and armed police arrived in the Makoko community of Lagos, demolishing homes, churches, a mosque and a medical clinic. After three days of destruction, the community was obliterated, leaving about 3,000 residents - many already destitute - homeless.

  • Beirut NGO meeting rejects flawed deals on detainee transfers

    A gathering of human rights organizations convened by Amnesty International in Beirut ended yesterday by reaching broad agreement that flawed deals on detainee transfers should be rejected.

  • Nepal: Mass arrests spark fear of violence

    The Nepali government arrested more than 100 political leaders and civil society activists today, raising fears that violence and human rights abuses could spiral out of control.

  • India: Excessive use of force against adivasi protestors in Orissa

    Amnesty International is gravely concerned by reports of excessive use of force by police officials during a protest, on 2 January 2006, by indigenous people (adivasis) at Kalinga Nagar in Jajpur district, Orissa. At least twelve adivasis, including three women and a 12-year-old boy, were reportedly killed in the police firing and one policeman was reportedly killed by the adivasis.

  • Afghanistan: Amnesty International condemns the recent killing of civilians

    Amnesty International condemns the recent wave of killings of civilians in southern Afghanistan, notably the 16 January suicide bomb attack on spectators at a sporting event in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province. According to reports, at least 22 people were killed and 20 injured by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle who blew himself up in a crowd attending a wrestling match.

  • Thailand: Death sentences of Wichai Somkhaoyai and Bualoi Posit

    Amnesty International expressed its concern at the sentencing to death of Wichai Somkhaoyai and Bualoi Posit, convicted today for the rape and murder of UK national Katherine Horton in early January 2005

  • Russian Federation: New law stifles independent civil society

    Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has signed into law the controversial amendments to laws governing civil society organizations in Russia. The law was published by the official government newspaper Rossiiskaia gazeta on 17 January 2006 and will come into force in three months' time.

  • Iran: Amnesty International calls for end to death penalty for child offenders

    Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to take immediate steps to end the use of the death penalty for child offenders. Two new cases have been reported in which child offenders - persons under 18 at the time of the crime - have been sentenced to death by Iranian courts, in breach of Irans obligations under international human rights law.

  • Brazil: recent killings of police in Sao Paulo

    Amnesty International totally repudiates the recent wave of attacks against police officers in Sao Paulo. The last attack, which took place on 12 January, 2006, in Vila Maria, left one officer dead and two injured.

  • Guantanamo: Military commissions

    On 11 January 2005, exactly four years after the first detainees were transferred to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, pre-trial military commission proceedings commenced in the cases of Ali Hamza Ahmed Sulayman Al Bahlul and Omar Khadr.

  • Amnesty International’s appeal to the presidency of the EU

    One of the main challenges for the Austrian Presidency is to reaffirm the primacy of human rights inside and outside EU borders, said Amnesty International in its recommendations to the Austrian Presidency at today's press conference in Vienna.

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