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20 January 2010
President Obama's administration has failed to match its words with concrete action when it comes to accountability and remedy for human rights violations committed in the name of 'countering terrorism'.
11 January 2010
Leading human rights organizations have urged more European states to accept detainees held at the US detention centre at Guantánamo who cannot be returned to their countries of origin.
11 December 2009
People living on the land in Chihuahua State, northern Mexico, have been intimidated and attacked for six years. Last week, a woman was shot and injured at her home.
09 December 2009
Tunisian nationals Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Nasseri are suspected of having committed terrorism-related crimes in Italy prior to being held at the US detention centre.
07 December 2009
Leonor Martínez has been subjected to violence and received death threats for her work with a civil society group.
03 December 2009
Amnesty International's delegation
has documented many cases of abuse including killings following excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests of
demonstrators by security forces and indiscriminate, unnecessary
use of tear gas.
18 November 2009
President Barack Obama has acknowledged that his administration will not meet his deadline for the closure of the military facility in Cuba.
05 November 2009
US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in the
abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar).
04 November 2009
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.
28 October 2009
Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation.
23 October 2009
The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal to
decriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnant
as a result of rape or incest.
20 October 2009
A law in Uruguay that has allowed the police and military to get away with torture and murder should be annulled.
01 October 2009
The three men were part of a group of seven undocumented migrants from El Salvador
and Ecuador who where shot at by Mexican security forces as they
crossed into the state of Chiapas.
16 September 2009
Muntadhar al-Zaidi has been released after nine months in prison for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush. He has said that he was tortured by Iraqi security services.
03 September 2009
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the
agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted
opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.
27 August 2009
US Attorney General Eric Holder has
ordered a "preliminary review" into the secret detention programme operated by the CIA after
the attacks of 11 September 2001. It's a welcome first step but it's not enough, says Amnesty International.
14 August 2009
Santiago Omar Riveros, who ran a detention centre, was found guilty of torturing and beating to
death a 15 year old boy. He is also accused of over 40 crimes against humanity involving victims of the era's so-called "disappeared".
24 June 2009
Former detainees held by the USA at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan have
told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) how they were subjected
to abuse while in cust
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.
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
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