Prison Conditions
Refugees held by Thailand must be freed - 17 November 2008
Ninety-two children are among a group of 158 Lao Hmong refugees who have been held under harsh conditions at a detention centre in Thailand for two years.Europe urged to protect Guantanamo detainees who cannot be returned home - 11 November 2008
Five human rights groups urged governments to accept into their countries, those detainees who will not be charged with any crime but who cannot be returned to theirPro-democracy activists in Syria face 15 years in prison - 8 October 2008
Twelve people are charged with "weakening national sentiment" for attending a meeting of the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change.Enforced disappearances: Annual Report 2008
Annual Report 2008 enforced disappearances [Algeria 50-1; Bosnia and Herzegovina 71; Chad 91; Korea (Democratic People's Republic of) 180; Macedonia 196; Mexico 205; Montenegro 210; Myanmar 217;
Observing Guantánamo's military commission hearings - 5 August 2008
Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer atthe recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was likeJapan must respect rights of detained Greenpeace activists - 15 July 2008
Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the prime minister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, whVideo: Murat Kurnaz, former detainee at Guantánamo and Afghanistan - 16 June 2008
Murat Kurnaz was detained in Afghanistan and Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly five years.