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Human Rights in JAPAN

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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Japan: Environmental activists must be treated in accordance with ...
14 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, ...

Press Release      

'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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Japan: Further Information on Fear of imminent execution: MAKINO ...
27 June 2008

Makino Tadashi, who lost his final appeal on 29 May 2008, was in danger of execution in June. He remains on death row.

Urgent Action       ASA 22/005/2008

Japan: Amnesty International condemns latest round of executions
17 June 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public statement. Index no: ASA 22/004/2008 (Public). 17 June 2008. Japan: Amnesty International condemns latest round of executions. ...

Document       ASA 22/004/2008

Japan: Fear of Imminent Execution: Makino Tadashi
6 June 2008

Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his appeal for clemency rejected, and so is at imminent risk of execution. He is held in Fukuoka Detention Centre ...

Urgent Action       ASA 22/002/2008

Philippines: Open Letter: House Resolution 124 calling on the ...
3 June 2008

In this letter Amnesty International strongly urges the government of Japan to bring House Resolution 124 to a re-vote. This Resolution calls on the Government ...

Document       ASA 35/001/2008

Ejecuciones secretas
1 June 2008

Ejecuciones secretas

Document       ACT 50/008/2008

Death Penalty Toolkit: Secret executions
1 June 2008

As many countries have illustrated, the journey to abolition of the death penalty is fuelled by debate. When the authorities in states that kill suppress this debate ...

Document       ACT 50/008/2008