Government representatives meeting in Addis Ababa have been urged by Amnesty International to clearly state they would prevent any
officials accused of genocide, crimes against humanity or war crimes
from seeking safe haven in their countries.
Amnesty International has urged the Guyanese authorities to charge police officers involved in the torture and ill-treatment of three individuals who were detained in relation to a murder investigation.
Amnesty International has welcomed the government's efforts to bring the killers to justice but has said that it deplores the use of the death penalty.
Hundreds of people have been forced from their homes to make way for a
commercial development in Rivers State, Nigeria, Amnesty International
has learned.
A longstanding travel ban on journalist Emadeddin Baghi, has prevented him from travelling to Switzerland to recieve his Martin Ennals prize in person.
Mohammed Soudani has been detained incommunicado since he met with two
French radio journalists who were covering the presidential and
legislative elections that took place on 25 October.
Judge Richard Goldstone's report on war crimes committed in Gaza and southern Israel is to be debated by the General Assembly this week. Amnesty International has urged the UN to grasp the opportunity to address accountability.
The assault of two independent journalists in Tunisia and the arrest of
a third in the wake of last week's elections must be punished, Amnesty
International said.
Amnesty International has called for a credible and transparent investigation into the 4 September airstrike in
Kunduz that killed scores of people, many of them
civilians.
