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Tunisian journalist freed

22 July 2008

A Tunisian journalist has been released eight months after he was arrested.

Arrest of Radovan Karadžic a major step towards justice

22 July 2008

The former Bosnian Serb leader could be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands either this weekend or early ne

President of Sudan could face arrest over Darfur war crimes

18 July 2008

Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has applied for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Omar El Bashir for 10 counts of genocide, crimes against humanity and wa

Children’s choir director still wanted for terrorist propaganda

18 July 2008

Duygu Ozge Bayar is still wanted by the Turkish authorities after she and members of her choir were accused of spreading propaganda for an outlawed separatist group.

Olympics promises for human rights – the China Debate

17 July 2008

Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to have their say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown to the Beijing Olympics.

ICC in difficulty ten years after the Rome Statute

17 July 2008

Thursday 17 July marks the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute, the treaty that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

Japan must respect rights of detained Greenpeace activists

15 July 2008

Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the prime minister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, wh

Fifteen officials found guilty of abusing Genoa G8 protesters

15 July 2008

Amnesty International welcomes the fact that the Italian magistrates have held individuals accountable for the brutalities that occurred in the Bolzaneto detention f

Omar Khadr must be immediately repatriated to Canada

15 July 2008

Reacting to the release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International

UK Ministry of Defence agrees to compensate Iraqi torture victims

14 July 2008

The family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured over a period of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra, Iraq, will be paid compensati

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