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Blog: My son-in-law, the prisoner of conscience - 9 December 2009

Blog written by Talib Yakubov, the father-in-law of prisoner of conscience Azam Farmonov.

Post-election Iran violations among worst in 20 years - 10 December 2009

New report details abuse before, during and after the June election, when authorities deployed the Basij militia and Revolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests against its outcome.

Blog: My husband's place is not in prison - 9 December 2009

Blog written for Amnesty International by Shaimaa, the wife of human rights defender Musaad Suliman Hassan Hussei.

Russia must stop persecution of rights activists - 8 December 2009

The Russian authorities must stop persecuting human rights activists and instead channel their efforts into investigating those responsible for their murders.

Iranian security forces condemned for protest crackdown - 7 December 2009

Amnesty International has condemned the excessive use of force by Iranian security forces that saw scores of protesters beaten and detained during student-led demonstrations.

Blog: My life inside a Chinese labor camp - 7 December 2009

Former prisoner of conscience Bu Dongwei spent over two years in a Chinese Re-education through Labour (RTL) camp until his release in July 2008.

Nicaragua must investigate violent attacks against human rights activist - 7 December 2009

Leonor Martínez has been subjected to violence and received death threats for her work with a civil society group.

Activists in Honduras tell Amnesty International of hidden human rights crisis - 4 December 2009

An Amnesty International delegation in Honduras talked to human rights activists about the hidden crisis affecting the Central American nation.

China must halt death sentences against Uighurs - 3 December 2009

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

Independent investigation needed into Honduras human rights abuses - 3 December 2009

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.