The USA must grant all detainees held in US custody at the Bagram
airbase in Afghanistan access to US courts and legal counsel, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty International has repeated its call for Malaysia to stop using the penalty of caning altogether, after another person has been sentenced to six strokes of the cane for drinking alcohol.
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.
As a court in Khartoum prepares to resume its trial of
Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein for wearing trousers, Amnesty
International has called on the government to withdraw the
charges and repeal the law used to justify the flogging of
women for wearing 'indecent' clothing.
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the
agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted
opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.
JS Tissainayagam was convicted of writing and publishing articles that criticized the government's treatment of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians affected by the war.
Muslim Kartika Sari Devvi Shukarno was sentenced to six strokes of the cane for drinking beer in public in December 2007. Postponed for Ramadan, her sentence is now under review by the Shariah Court of Appeal.
