Five Indigenous communities in eastern Paraguay are in imminent danger of eviction from their ancestral lands: 150 families would be left homeless with no access ...
In this open letter Amnesty International raises recent concerns regarding a new Indonesian bylaw in Aceh, the Islamic Criminal Code (Qanun Hukum Jinayat), which ...
A decision by Lebanese judicial authorities is an encouraging first step toward recognizing the right of families of victims of enforced disappearances during the ...
Government representatives meeting in Addis Ababa have been urged by Amnesty International to clearly state they would prevent anyofficials accused of genocide, ...
In February 2003, Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (known as Abu Omar) was on his way to a local mosque when he was abducted from a street in Milan. He was subsequently ...
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. 3 November 2009. AI Index: EUR 64/002/2009. Croatia urged to end impunity for war crimes and to defend journalists. ...
Yong Vui Kong was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in January 2009. He had exhausted his appeals by October, and can now escape execution only if the president ...
Amnesty International has welcomed the government's efforts to bring the killers to justice but has said that it deplores the use of the death penalty.