The Director of the Ministry of Information and Culture in the Maldives has responded to AI's concerns about the arrest and detention of the two men named above ...
Ahamed Shafeeq, a 67-year-old writer and former senior civil servant, and Ali Moosa Didi, a writer and politician, were arrested on 21 April 1995. It is believed ...
Several candidates, dozens of their supporters and two journalists were detained in the Maldives in the weeks before parliamentary elections on 2 December 1994. ...
1. Algeria: Hundreds sentenced to death and more than 20 executed after unfair trials; 2. India: AI concerned about siege of mosque in Jammu and Kashmir; 3. Maldives ...
1. Myanmar: Burmese Nobel prize-winner, a prisoner on her birthday (Aung San Suu Kyi). 2. Maldives: Political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, still ...
This report summarizes concerns about the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, giving illustrative cases, and the unfair trial or detention without trial of ...
Since March 1990 scores of people have been arrested in the Republic of Maldives, many of whom are believed to have been detained for their non- violent criticism ...
1. 1990 a record-breaking year for abolition. 2. Abolition in Hungary - Constitutional Court ruling. 3. Japan: Forum discusses abolition. 4. Messages to the Anti ...
1. Maldives: Government extends death penalty. 2. Bangladesh: Amnesty International urges steps to protect human rights. 3. Rwanda: Amnesty International sends ...