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HAKAMADA IWAO - JAPÓN
29 October 2008

HAKAMADA IWAO - JAPÓN

Document       ASA 22/007/2008

Japan: Hakamada Iwao [Global letter-writing marathon 2008]
29 October 2008

Hakamada Iwao is suffering from mental illness after spending over 28 years in solitary confinement and lives with the constant fear of execution. After an unfair ...

Document       ASA 22/007/2008

Two men hanged in Japan | Amnesty International
29 October 2008

The executions of Michitoshi Kuma and Masahiro Takashio were the first approved by Minister of Justice Mori Eisuke sincehe took office in September.

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Worldwide Appeals: October 2008
1 October 2008

1) Japan: Forty years on death row 2) Nigeria: Indefinite detention 3) Saudi Arabia: Executions and floggings may be imminent 4) Turkey: Activist in police shooting ...

Document       NWS 22/002/2008

Japan: Fear of imminent execution: Makino Tadashi (m)
1 October 2008

Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced ...

Urgent Action       ASA 22/010/2008

Japan should adopt death penalty moratorium | Amnesty ...
15 September 2008

Three men were executed in Japan on Thursday 11 September 2008. Amnesty International hascalled for the government to immediately adopt a moratorium onexecutions ...

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Japan: New executions emphasize need for death penalty moratorium ...
11 September 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 11 September 2008. AI Index No: ASA 22/008/2008. Japan: New executions emphasize need for death ...

Document       ASA 22/008/2008

Japan: Amnesty International Submission to the UN Human Rights ...
1 September 2008

Japan. Amnesty International Submission to the UN Human Rights Committee. 94 th session of the UN Human Rights Committee, 13-31 October 2008. September 2008. ...

Document       ASA 22/012/2008

Japan must respect rights of detained Greenpeace activists ...
15 July 2008

Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the primeminister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists,Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, ...

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'Comfort Women': waiting for justice after 62 years | Amnesty ...
5 July 2008

Thousands of women known as ‘comfort women’, were forced into sexual servitude by the Government of Japan for sexual servitude for the armed forces in the.

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