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Afghanistan: No impunity for war criminals
9 February 2010, 09:44AM
The governemnt of Afghanistan should immediately suspend legislation that will give immunity from prosecution for serious violations of human rights.
Arrest of Sri Lankan opposition leader escalates post-election repression
9 February 2010, 08:12AM
Sarath Fonseka arrested on charges that he revealed military secrets and plotted the assassination of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Pakistan must give courts information on disappearances
6 February 2010, 08:00AM
We call on Pakistan to comply with recent judicial orders to resolve the country’s crisis of enforced disappearances.
Impartial police investigation needed in PNG
5 February 2010, 07:41AM
We call for any investigation into forced evictions in Porgera, PNG, to be impartial, following comments by PNG's Police Commissioner that he may launch an investigation with the predetermined objective of clearing the police of misconduct.
Investigate police violence, illegal evictions near PNG gold mine
3 February 2010, 10:21AM
The government of Papua New Guinea must investigate the conduct of police who burnt down homes and threatened people with guns, while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the biggest gold mines in the country.
Sri Lanka: End post-election clampdown on dissent
2 February 2010, 08:58AM
Opposition supporters, journalists and trade unionists have been arrested, harassed and recieved death threats since last weeke's presidential election.
Bangladesh: Transparency needed over hasty executions
2 February 2010, 08:51AM
Amnesty International condemns last week’s execution in Bangladesh, less that twenty four hours after their conviction was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Malaysia: Opposition leader Anwar faces ‘show trial’
30 January 2010, 06:32AM
Malaysia's judiciary should throw out charges against the country's opposition leader.
India: Government of Manipur must release Irom Sharmila Chanu
29 January 2010, 08:47AM
Irom Sharmila has been on an indefinite hunger-strike since November 2000, protesting against the imposition of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act in the Indian state of Manipur
Afghanistan: Human rights must be guaranteed during Taliban talks
27 January 2010, 12:51PM
Human rights must not be traded away in reconciliation talks with the Taliban.
Political activists in Sri Lanka attacked ahead of election
23 January 2010, 08:26AM
Amnesty International calls on Sri Lankan political leaders to investigate attacks on activists during one of the most violent presidential elections in the last 20 years.
Fiji intensifies repression in 2010
21 January 2010, 11:29AM
The military regime in Fiji has started the new year with renewed attacks against people's right to freedom of expression and on the independence of the judiciary, through threats, intimidation, discrimination, and use of the law as a tool of oppression.
Vietnamese dissidents’ trial a mockery of justice
21 January 2010, 11:12AM
Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of four Vietnamese prisoners of conscience jailed for their peaceful pro-democracy activism.
Rights agenda for Sri Lanka presidential candidates
19 January 2010, 11:13AM
Candidates in Sri Lanka’s Presidential elections on 26 January must end widespread human rights violations and the culture of impunity. Amnesty International has issued a 10-point Human Rights Agenda for all candidates.
Mongolia moratorium on executions welcomed
14 January 2010, 05:25PM
In a bold move for the protection of human rights, Mongolia has declared an official moratorium on executions. We welcome this important development as a key step toward full abolition of the death penalty.
Comfort women mark 900th ‘Wednesday demonstration’
14 January 2010, 02:13PM
As we mark the 900th 'Wednesday demonstration' in Seoul, South Korea, we call on the government of Japan to apologise fully and unequivocally to the survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery system.
Freedom of expression in Thailand under threat
14 January 2010, 11:04AM
Thailand should reverse its recent backward slide in respect for freedom of expression, as illustrated by the sharp increase over the past ten months in cases under the lese majeste law.
China’s censorship of the internet must stop
14 January 2010, 10:01AM
Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet after online firm, Google, raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists’ email accounts.
India: Chhattisgarh authorities must release witness to extrajudicial executions
7 January 2010, 09:45AM
Amnesty International urges authorities in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh to immediately free Sodi Sambo, an adivasi woman and eyewitness to the extrajudicial executions of nine adivasis in Gompad village on 1 October 2009.
Mentally ill Briton executed in China
29 December 2009, 09:33PM
British man Akmal Shaikh has been executed in China, despite arguments that he suffered from a bipolar disorder and was tricked into carrying heroin in his luggage.
A policeman's job is to protect all citizens, even those he or she doesn't like. I'd have thought that a pretty basic concept.
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