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19 March 2009
The Cuban authorities took action on Tuesday to suppress peaceful
demonstrations marking the 6th anniversary of a crackdown against
dissidents.
18 March 2009
Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their
villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio
18 March 2009
Human rights activists marking the 6-year detention of 57 people
imprisoned in Cuba for expressing their right to freedom of expression
and association are facing on
18 March 2009
Students are being detained for peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and assembly, in what may be an attempt to stifle debate and dissent b
18 March 2009
Authorities in Mexico have dropped the charges against four Indigenous
human rights defenders who have been imprisoned for nearly a year.
17 March 2009
Syrian writer Habib Saleh has been sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the country's government in a series of articles published on the internet.
17 March 2009
Amnesty International has written to the UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights following a meeting between a delegation from the organization
and the Nepalese Presid
17 March 2009
Eight people have been charged with criticizing Malaysia's Sultan of
Perak on the internet, as the authorities stepped up a crackdown on the
country's bloggers.
16 March 2009
A group of 16 of the world's leading war crimes investigators and
judges - backed by Amnesty International - has urged the United Nations
to launch a full inquiry in
16 March 2009
Amnesty International has welcomed the announcement by President Asif
Zardari of Pakistan that Iftikhar Chaudhry will be reinstated as a
Supreme Court judge.
13 March 2009
Reports say that the Iraqi authorities plan to start executing the prisoners in batches of 20 this week. Last year at least 285 people were sentenced to death and at l
13 March 2009
All three are reported to have been beaten and otherwise ill-treated while in detention. Two have already been detained for four years.
13 March 2009
Journalists and media workers now vulnerable to violence and intimidation by both the government and anti-government forces.
12 March 2009
Five members of a Guerrero-based human rights organization are still being held in prison nearly a year after their arrest, despite insufficient evidence against them.
10 March 2009
A US federal judge has ordered the US government to provide updated information on the detainees held in Bagram airbase in Afghanistan by 11 March.
10 March 2009
The Chinese authorities' failure to address the long-standing grievances of the Tibetan people, has fuelled protests that have continued over the past 12 months.
06 March 2009
International Women’s Day is a time to celebrate the historic struggles of women through the centuries to achieve equality and justice.
06 March 2009
At least 330 civilians were reported to have been victims of unlawful
killings by members of the security forces in 2007. The victims, mostly
peasant farmers, were o
06 March 2009
Lawyer and former prisoner of conscience Mohamed Abbou has been denied permission to leave Tunisia for the seventh time since his release from prison in July 2007.
05 March 2009
The expulsions came soon after the International Criminal
Court issued an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al
Bashir, on charges of war crimes and crimes a
