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Afghanistan: Journalist should be freed - 21 October 2008

Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh should be freed immediately as there have never been legal grounds for his conviction or sentence, Amnesty International said today, in respon

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Afghanistan: Protect media freedom from intelligence agency interference - 31 July 2008

The Afghan government must prevent the country’s intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate, from suppressing media freedom, said Amnesty Internation

ICC in difficulty ten years after the Rome Statute - 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.

Child "enemy combatants" face Guantánamo hearings - 20 June 2008

Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.

Afghanistan: No more empty promises in Paris - 11 June 2008

The international community and the Afghan government have not met their pledge to provide the Afghan people, particularly women and girls, with better security, more

Afghanistan arms fuel further abuse - 3 April 2008

The US and other NATO states are supplying arms to Afghanistan that could be used for serious human rights violations, warns Amnesty International.

Governments must take action to end violence against schoolgirls - 6 March 2008

On the eve of International Women’s Day, governments and school officials around the world must take concrete action to end violence against girls, particularly

Afghanistan: Stop transfer of detainees - 7 February 2008

Press release: Amnesty International called on NATO defence ministers as they meet in Lithuania to suspend all transfers of detainees from the Interna