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09 June 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who work for California-based Internet broadcaster Current TV, were both convicted of an unspecified “grave crime” against the nat
09 June 2009
Nine demonstrators and 24 police officers were confirmed killed during
protests by Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon town of
Bagua.
09 June 2009
The Iranian presidential elections are to be held this month on 12
June. The candidates are: the incumbent President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;
Mohsen Rezaei, a former co
08 June 2009
Five families in the West Bank hamlet of Hadidiya are under threat of immediate eviction.
08 June 2009
Amnesty International's Secretary General kicked off her first high
level mission in Kenya with visits to two informal settlements in
Nairobi – a city in which
05 June 2009
The UN is urged to reject calls to block prosecutions of persons charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes in Sudan, including President Omar al-Bashir.
05 June 2009
Iran's tenth presidential election on 12 June, will take place against a backdrop of discrimination, worsening repression of dissent and violent unrest.
04 June 2009
The Lithuanian parliament has voted in favour of a measure that would
prohibit the discussion of homosexuality in schools and ban any
reference to it in public infor
04 June 2009
US President Barack Obama met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in
Cairo on Thursday as he continued his trip to the Middle East.
04 June 2009
Plans to kill Marcelo Freixo and his aide were found during a
long-term police operation against militia groups controlling over a hundred shantytowns in Rio de Janei
03 June 2009
The harassment of activists and lawyers continues and web sites like Hotmail and Twitter are shut down as censorship escalates.
03 June 2009
Terry Lee Hankins was the 16th person to be executed in Texas this year, out of a national total of 30.
03 June 2009
US President Barack Obama begins his trip to the Middle East with a visit to Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
02 June 2009
Hundreds of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the crackdown and a number of people are still in prison for their involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy p
01 June 2009
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention in Myanmar puts the human
rights spotlight on a country that has denied both economic rights and
freedom of expression to
01 June 2009
An "horrific" public execution and crucifixion of a man in Saudi Arabia has been condemned by Amnesty International.
01 June 2009
An "horrific" public execution and crucifixion of a man in Saudi Arabia has been condemned by Amnesty International.
28 May 2009
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
28 May 2009
More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
27 May 2009
A new Amnesty International campaign will empower "prisoners of poverty" as previous
campaigns empowered prisoners of conscience.
