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ICC in difficulty ten years after the Rome Statute | Amnesty ...
17 July 2008

Thursday 17 July marks the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute, the treaty that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.

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Olympics promises for human rights – the China Debate | Amnesty ...
17 July 2008

Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to havetheir say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown tothe Beijing Olympics.

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USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: José Ernesto ...
17 July 2008

Mexican national José Medellín is due to be executed in Texas on 5 August 2008. He was sentenced to death in 1994 for his part in the murders of two girls, 14-year ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/081/2008

USA (Mississippi): Death penalty / Legal concern: Dale Leo Bishop ...
17 July 2008

Dale Bishop is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi at 6pm local time on 23 July. He was sentenced to death in February 2000 for the murder of Marcus Gentry ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/080/2008

USA (Oklahoma): Further information on Death penalty: Kevin Young ...
16 July 2008

On 15 July, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry granted a 30-day stay of execution to Kevin Young in order to review the clemency recommendation made by the state Pardon ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/079/2008

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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USA: Omar Khadr must be immediately repatriated to Canada ...
15 July 2008

Reacting to today’s release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International ...

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Fifteen officials found guilty of abusing Genoa G8 protesters ...
15 July 2008

Amnesty International welcomes the fact that the Italian magistrateshave held individuals accountable for the brutalities that occurred inthe Bolzaneto detention ...

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Zimbabwe: Further Information on Abduction/Torture
15 July 2008

Nine of the 11 youths abducted from a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) at 1am on 7 July have now been accounted for. Information is limited at present ...

Urgent Action       AFR 46/026/2008

Saudi Arabia: Further Information on Incommunicado Detention/ Fear ...
15 July 2008

The eight Bahrainis named above were released without charge on 12 July, and have returned to Bahrain.

Urgent Action       MDE 23/026/2008