Extrajudicial Executions And Other Unlawful Killings

Algeria's next president urged to address past human rights abuses - 8 April 2009

Algerians go to the polls on Thursday to vote for their next president.

Peru's Ex-President convicted in landmark case - 7 April 2009

Alberto Fujimori, the former President of Peru, has been convicted of a series of human rights violations.

Critics of Guinea-Bissau military beaten by military personnel - 2 April 2009

Francisco José Fadul, a Court President and former Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, was beaten by military personnel at his home in Bissau in the early hours

Algeria’s next president told no prospect for national reconciliation without truth and justice - 30 March 2009

Ahead of Algeria’s presidential elections, the country's next leader has been urged to address the legacy of human rights abuses of the 1990’s internal c

Al-Bashir visit to Egypt is a missed opportunity to enforce justice - 25 March 2009

Amnesty International says the visit of the Sudanese President to Egypt, should have been an opportunity to enforce the arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the Int

Hearing into deaths in Kosovo could find UN accountable - 23 March 2009

Two men were killed during a demonstration in Pristina in February 2007, when Romanian police under the control of the UN fired rubber bullets at the crowd.

Hundreds accused of 'witchcraft' persecuted in The Gambia - 18 March 2009

Up to 1,000 people have been taken from their villages by “witch doctors”, taken to secret detention centres and forced to drink hallucinogenic concoctio

Colombia protests against unlawful killings by security forces - 6 March 2009

At least 330 civilians were reported to have been victims of unlawful killings by members of the security forces in 2007. The victims, mostly peasant farmers, were o

ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President al Bashir - 4 March 2009

Sudanese authorities have a legal obligation to arrest President al Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes, committed during the conf

Tribunal for Hariri killing insufficient if other abuses in Lebanon not addressed - 2 March 2009

With its narrow mandate, the tribunal will do nothing to address the enormous number of other grave human rights abuses committed in Lebanon in recent decades.