With Asia executing more people each year than any other part of the world, Amnesty International called today, on World Day Against the Death Penalty, for India, South Korea and Taiwan to join the global trend and establish a moratorium on the death penalty immediately.
Amnesty International calls for a prompt, independent and impartial
investigation into the circumstances of the death of 29 year old Engin
Ceber who died today after alleged torture by police, prison officers
and gendarmerie
The Sri Lankan Parliament should reject, through a vote of no confidence, the membership of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan, otherwise known as Karuna, who is alleged to have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Amnesty International today said that those displaced by May’s xenophobic violence in South Africa face serious threats to their safety, as the last remaining camps for the displaced are closing and their asylum-claims are overwhelmingly rejected.
South Korean police used excessive force in some instances against demonstrators protesting earlier this year against the government’s decision to resume beef imports from the US, Amnesty International concluded in a report released today.
Recent attacks on independent journalists and human rights activists
illustrate the risks under which they work in Russia, Amnesty
International said on the eve of the second anniversary of Anna
Politkovskaya’s murder
Tens of thousands of civilians require immediate international humanitarian assistance as a result of escalating fighting on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border since the beginning of August, Amnesty International said today.
Forty years after one of the worst incidents of mass killing in Mexico’s history, the Mexican government still hasn’t given answers to questions surrounding the massacre that took place in Mexico City, said Amnesty International.
Ongoing
security concerns, unexploded ordnance from the Georgia-Russia conflict and the large scale destruction of property in
some parts of the conflict area coentinue to undermine the right of tens
of thousands of people to return to their homes
For every two children released, five are taken and forced to be child soldiers, said Amnesty International, in a new report released today on the ongoing conflict in the province of North Kivu, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
