Amnesty International urged Taiwan’s High Court to ensure a fair trial for a death row inmate preparing to face his 11th retrial in 21 years on Tuesday.
The new bylaw endorses stoning to death for adultery and caning for homosexuality. It also forbids alcohol consumption, gambling and intimacy between unmarried couples.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi has been released after nine months in prison for throwing his shoes at former US President George W Bush. He has said that he was tortured by Iraqi security services.
Amnesty International has repeated its call for Malaysia to stop using the penalty of caning altogether, after another person has been sentenced to six strokes of the cane for drinking alcohol.
Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi
Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights
in the name of countering terrorism.
Victims of rape and other torture by Iranian security forces are facing
renewed risk after documents detailing abuses against them were
confiscated this week.
As a court in Khartoum prepares to resume its trial of
Sudanese journalist Lubna Hussein for wearing trousers, Amnesty
International has called on the government to withdraw the
charges and repeal the law used to justify the flogging of
women for wearing 'indecent' clothing.
Caspian Makan, the fiancé of the young woman killed in
the recent protests in Iran, has been held in detention since 26 June,
after he made a statement linking her murder to pro-government militia.
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the
agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted
opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.
