Amnesty International has welcomed the government's efforts to bring the killers to justice but has said that it deplores the use of the death penalty.
Spanish authorities need to reform the current system of investigating
allegations of torture and other ill-treatment from security forces, Amnesty International has said.
The assault of two independent journalists in Tunisia and the arrest of
a third in the wake of last week's elections must be punished, Amnesty
International said.
Hairat Niyaz has been detained since 1 October. He is thought at risk of torture and ill-treatment. Family and friends believe his detention is due to comments he made about the recent unrest.
Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation.
Amnesty International said that the Sudanese government
was responsible for the death and ill-treatment of Ahmed Suleiman Sulman, who died
from tuberculosis in police custody last week.
Amnesty International has welcomed the intervention of Saudi Arabia’s head of state, King ‘Abdullah bin ‘Abdul ‘Aziz, to cancel a flogging sentence against a female journalist.
The Peruvian Congress' has decided to stand by its proposal to
decriminalize abortion in cases where women and girls become pregnant
as a result of rape or incest.
Many migrant workers in South Korea are beaten, trafficked for sexual
exploitation and denied their wages for long periods despite the
introduction of rules to protect their rights.
