Timor-Leste

Human Rights in DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TIMOR-LESTE

Allegations of police killings in Guatemala must be investigated ...
15 December 2009

In a new report, Amnesty International says that killings by police officers, often of young people who have eithera criminal record or are suspected of involvement ...

Report Abstract      

China: Risk of torture for 17-year old in China
15 December 2009

Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western ...

Urgent Action       ASA 17/071/2009

Cambodia: Open letter on Uighur asylum seekers in Cambodia
15 December 2009

Document       ASA 23/023/2009

Nepal: Further information: Police fail to arrest Nepalese army ...
15 December 2009

Army Major Niranjan Basnet has not been arrested on his return to Nepal. Despite instructions from the Prime Minister that he be arrested, military police escorted ...

Urgent Action       ASA 31/012/2009

Trial of Kurds in Syria likely to be a 'parody of justice' ...
15 December 2009

The trial of five men accused of belonging to an unauthorized political party resumes at the Supreme State Security Court this week. The court does not operate ...

Story      

Honduras must launch full investigation into death of human rights ...
15 December 2009

Walter Trochez was shot in the chest by a drive-by gunman on Sunday night while walking home through the centre of Tegucigalpa.

Story      

Turkey criticized for closing pro-Kurdish political party ...
14 December 2009

Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Democratic Society Party has been closed and 37 of its members have been banned from politics for five years ...

Story      

Turkey: Constitutional Court rules in favour of closure of pro ...
14 December 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 44/007/2009. 14 December 2009. Turkey: Constitutional Court rules in favour of ...

Document       EUR 44/007/2009

Honduras: Full and prompt investigation needed into death of human ...
14 December 2009

Honduran authorities must launch an urgent and independent investigation into the murder of human rights defender Walter Trochez who was killed late on Sunday night ...

Press Release      

Saudi Arabia: Further information: Flogging of elderly woman may ...
14 December 2009

According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior has ordered that sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a 75 ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/037/2009