Annual Report 2012
The state of the world's human rights

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Human Rights in Islamic Republic of Iran

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Report 2012: No longer business as usual for tyranny and injustice ...
24 May 2012

Amnesty International releases its flagship yearly report documenting the state of the world's human rights.

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Iran: Ahwazi Arabs facing unfair trial, risk torture
18 May 2012

Six members of Iran's Ahwazi Arab minority are due to go on trial in Iran on 20 May. The men were detained without charge for almost a year and all were arrested ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/029/2012

Iran: Trade unionist given six-year prison sentence: Reza Shahabi
9 May 2012

Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi has been sentenced to six years' imprisonment on vaguely worded charges. He is in poor health, and it is not clear whether he ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/027/2012

Iran: 'A duty to inform' | Amnesty International
2 May 2012

Annual Report 2012. The state of the world's human rights. Read it now ...

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World Press Freedom Day: Attacks against journalists around the ...
2 May 2012

Annual Report 2011. The state of the world's human rights. Read it now ...

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World Press Freedom Day: Repression in the digital era | Amnesty ...
1 May 2012

Amnesty International hears from journalists and bloggers across the world who face abuse and even imprisonment while trying to do their job.

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Wire, May/June 2012. Vol. 42, issue 03
1 May 2012

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Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2012

Wire, May/June 2012. Vol. 42, issue 03
1 May 2012

1) Up front: the night-crossing 2) Freedom of expression: China's defiant heart 3) Human rights talk: 'You can't just stand there and not act' 4) World Press Freedom ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2012

Iran: Further information: Human rights defender imprisoned ...
30 April 2012

Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, a mother of two young children, has begun serving a six-year sentence in Tehran's Evin Prison. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/026/2012

Iran: Iranian-Canadian facing execution in Iran: Hamid Ghassemi ...
26 April 2012

A man with dual Iranian-Canadian nationality, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, appears to be at imminent risk of execution. His family were told on 15 April that his death ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/023/2012