http://www.amnesty.org/en/adv_search/feed/library Download Documents from Amnesty International Library Search Results en http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/011/2009/en Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/013/2009/en In this open letter, Amnesty International congratulates the Prime Minister on his recent election and uses the opportunity to raise concerns regarding human rights in Japan. In particular the organization expresses its concerns about international development assistance and human rights; the death penalty a Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/005/2009/en The use of the death penalty is in decline globally. Japan is one of the few industrialized countries to continue to use it, hanging a small number of prisoners each year. This report discusses the legal basis for exempting mentally ill prisoners from the death penalty and documents the situation faced by su Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/report/japan-continues-execute-mentally-ill-prisoners-20090910 The government of Japan continues to execute prisoners who are mentally ill, according to a new Amnesty International report. Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/006/2009/en Japan is one of only two industrialized countries that retains the death penalty and uses it. Its use is veiled in secrecy, with prisoners informed of their fate just moments before their execution and relatives are told only after the fact. Amongst those executed have been prisoners affected by serious ment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/japan-stop-execution-mentally-ill-prisoners-20090910 The government of Japan’s continued practice of executing prisoners with mental illness is inhuman and must come to an end, Amnesty International said today with the publication of a new report on the treatment of the mentally ill sentenced to death in Japan. In the report, Hanging by a thread: mental Thu, 10 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/009/2009/en Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/008/2009/en Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA22/007/2009/en Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/pressure-mounts-time-running-out-justice-comfort-women-20090814 Women who faced abuse and sexual slavery at the hand of the JapaneseImperial army during the Second World War, have now been waiting 64 years for an official apologyand adequate reparations. Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International