The prisoners, who include 17 women, are said to have had their death
sentences ratified by the Presidential Council, the final step before
executions are carried out.
A European Court of Human Rights’ judgement said that Kamel Daoudi’s expulsion would put him at risk of incommunicado detention and torture and would be a human rights violation.
China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China, Amnesty Inte
An Amnesty International delegation also found cases of over 40 people whose whereabouts are still unknown. These human rights violations follow a massacre during a political protest in September.
Amnesty International's delegation
has documented many cases of abuse including killings following excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests of
demonstrators by security forces and indiscriminate, unnecessary
use of tear gas.
Amnesty International has called for a
clear, credible mechanism to investigate civilian casualties of military operations, as the US prepares to send in 30,000 more troops.
The Peruvian authorities must conduct investigations
into the deaths of all those killed during violence at a road blockade
led by Amazon Indigenous peoples in June.
