The de facto Honduran authorities must allow journalists to broadcast as negotiations over the country's political future continue, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty International has called on all states to suspend international
supplies of military and police weaponry, munitions and other equipment
that could be used to commit human rights violations by Guinean
security forces.
Marvin Ortiz, a journalist with Radio Globo in Honduras, talks to Amnesty International about how the station was forcibly and violently shut down in a joint police and military operation.
The Israeli authorities must disclose details of the internal
investigations they have carried out into the conduct of the Israeli
armed forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti urged to rescind a decree
that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all
public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew.
Amnesty International has received continuing reports of numerous
demonstrators being beaten by police and some several hundred detained
across Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.
Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi
Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights
in the name of countering terrorism.
