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Indonesia: Further information: Shi'as at risk of forced ...
15 January 2013

The authorities have threatened to relocate a Shi'a community by force, in March. The community are living in temporary shelter in East Java, in deteriorating conditions ...

Urgent Action       ASA 21/002/2013

India: Further information: Judges support mercy, president ...
14 January 2013

India's president has rejected a mercy petition from Saibanna Ningappa Natikar, though 14 former judges have told him they believe the death sentence was wrongly ...

Urgent Action       ASA 20/004/2013

India: Manipur authorities should cooperate with Supreme Court ...
11 January 2013

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: ASA 20/003/2013 11 January 2013. India: Manipur authorities should cooperate ...

Public Statement       ASA 20/003/2013

Editor at risk of unjust sentence in Thailand: Somyot ...
11 January 2013

Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, a labour activist and editor of the Voice of Taksin, is a prisoner of conscience. He has been detained since April 2011, having been charged ...

Urgent Action       ASA 39/001/2013

China: Further information: Activist at risk of enforced ...
11 January 2013

Human rights defender Zhu Chengzhi has been subjected to six months' “residential surveillance” at an undisclosed location since 4 January. Having been previously ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/006/2013

Nepal: The search for justice
10 January 2013

Impunity is a longstanding problem in Nepal where lack of political will to account for past and present actions of the politically well-connected is compounded ...

Report       ASA 31/001/2013

India: Amnesty International submission to the Justice Verma ...
4 January 2013

Amnesty International submitted this briefing to the Justice Verma Committee on the reform of laws and criminal justice practices relating to crimes of sexual violence ...

Document       ASA 20/002/2013

Wire, January/February 2013. Vol. 43, issue 01
1 January 2013

1) The Agenda 2) Up front: Kuwait at the crossroads 3) Wrongs and rights in 2012 4) One man in Guantánamo: 10 years of human wrongs 5) Egypt: These walls can speak ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/001/2013

Pakistan: Give tribal areas in Pakistan human rights protections
31 December 2012

Layout 1. President zardari President's Secretariat islamabad Pakistan. Dear President Zardari,. The people of Pakistan's Tribal Areas ...

Postcard       ASA 33/018/2012

Japan: Open letter - Establishing a moratorium on executions in ...
27 December 2012

Company Registration: 01606776 Registered in England and Wales. Dear Minister. OPEN LETTER: ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON EXECUTIONS IN JAPAN. ...

Open Letter       ASA 22/019/2012