Amnesty International has condemned the use of apparently toxic
pesticides to intimidate an indigenous community after they resisted
being forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands.
Following the execution of eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese individual, charged with offences committed during the July riots, the authorities have prosecuted a further 20 suspects.
Ehsan Fattahian is to be executed on Wednesday, for his alleged membership of an illegal opposition group. Two other Iranian Kurdish men are also feared to be at imminent risk of execution.
On the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Amnesty International has called for urgent action to tackle abuses against migrants, asylum seekers, detainees and minorities.
The vote adopting key recommendations of the report on the
conflict in Gaza and southern Israel earlier this year, is vitally
important for ensuring that those who committed war
crimes will be held accountable, said Amnesty International.
Scores of Nigerians lost their homes on Friday morning when Rivers
state authorities began bulldozing buildings in Port Harcourt, Amnesty
International has learned.
Amnesty International is aware of at least 137 people currently on death row in Saudi Arabia, of which 106 are foreign nationals. The true figures are believed to be much higher.
Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme
Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal
laws on abortion which entered into force in 2008.
Amnesty International has welcomed the decision of a Côte d’Ivoire court not to transfer $45 million in compensation owed to victims of the toxic waste dumping in Abidjan in 2006 to the account of an organization which was falsely claiming to represent all 30,000 of them.
