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  • Angolan activists jailed over attack on Togo football team

    Amnesty International has called for the release of four Angolan human rights activists unlawfully jailed in connection with an attack on the Togolese football team in Cabinda that left two people dead and several injured.The four men, including prisoners of conscience Francisco Luemba and Raul Tati, were sentenced to between three and six years’ imprisonment…

  • Japan executions of two men condemned

    Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country’s new government came to power last year. Convicted killers Ogata Hidenori, 33, and Shinozawa Kazuo, 59, were hanged in the Tokyo Detention Centre on Wednesday, exactly one year after the last executions took place. “Japan…

  • Japan executions of two men condemned

    Amnesty International has condemned the executions of two Japanese men in the first death sentences carried out since the country’s new government came to power last year.Convicted killers Ogata Hidenori, 33, and Shinozawa Kazuo, 59, were hanged in the Tokyo Detention Centre on Wednesday, exactly one year after the last executions took place.“Japan continues to…

  • Russia art convictions a blow to freedom of expression

    Amnesty International has condemned the conviction of the organizers of a Russian art exhibition which used religious symbols on charges of “inciting hatred or enmity”.A Moscow court today sentenced Andrei Yerofeev, the exhibition curator, and Yuri Samodurov, then director of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre, where the Forbidden Art 2006 exhibition was staged,…

  • Russia must halt prosecution of exhibition organizers

    Amnesty International and ARTICLE 19 are urging the Russian authorities to drop the charges against the organizers of Forbidden Art 2006, an exhibition which featured Soviet and post-Soviet art works, some of which used religious symbolism.  Andrei Yerofeev, the exhibition curator, and Yuri Samodurov, then director of the Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Centre, were…

  • Timor-Leste law allows amnesties for war criminals

    Amnesty International is urging Timor-Leste to close a legal loophole that is allowing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the 1975-1999 Indonesian occupation to go unpunished. ‘Timor-Leste; Justice in the Shadow’, an Amnesty International report released today on the country’s latest Penal Code, documents how the law allows amnesties that would prevent trials…