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No moving backwards for Myanmar

8 August 2008

Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar, however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering under repressive rule.

Hamdan sentenced by military commission

8 August 2008

Convicted of  “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in prison at the first US milita

Anwar Ibrahim continues campaign despite questionable charges

8 August 2008

Malaysian opposition leader has declared that sodomy charges will not stop his campaign for a parliamentary seat.

Syrian prisoner of conscience freed

8 August 2008

The Syrian authorities unexpectedly released Dr. Aref Dalilah on Thursday following a presidential amnesty.

Mexican national executed in Texas

7 August 2008

José Medellín was put to death in violation of the USA’s international legal obligations and despite worldwide appeals for the execution to be st

Observing Guantánamo's military commission hearings (Part 2)

6 August 2008

Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo.

Hamdan convicted at Guantánamo

6 August 2008

Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of six US military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", but acquitted of &q

Video: Observing Guantánamo's hearings

6 August 2008

Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, observed the first trial to take place before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay. 

Observing Guantánamo's military commission hearings

5 August 2008

Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer atthe recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like

Women in Mexico let down by failures in justice system

1 August 2008

Thousands of Mexican women who face violence in their homes are being put at risk of further abuse by a justice system that often fails to take their safety seriously.

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