Trials And Legal Systems | Amnesty International

Arrests continue in Myanmar - 28 November 2007

The Myanmar government continues to detain monks and dissidents, despite government assurances that no more arrests would be carried out.

Free imprisoned trade unionists - 10 December 2007

Viet Nam: Two days after Tran Quoc Hien was chosen as spokesperson for the United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) in January 2007, he was arrested.

Demand the truth about student's disappearance - 10 December 2007

Russia: 22-year-old Artur Akhmatkhanov was grabbed by masked soldiers and bundled into an armoured personnel carrier in 2003; he has not been seen s

Prevent execution of tortured woman - 10 December 2007

Iraq: Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah faces the death sentence after, she says, she was tortured by the police.

End persecution of Falun Gong practitioner - 10 December 2007

China: Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for a US-based NGO is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour in Beijing due to his religious

Monks return to streets of Myanmar - 2 November 2007

In a display of courage, Buddhist monks have once again staged peaceful protests in Myanmar.

United action for human rights in Pakistan - 16 November 2007

People around the world took to the streets on Thursday to call for the restoration of human rights and justice in Pakistan.

One year of the Military Commissions Act - 17 October 2007

On 17 October a year ago, US President George W. Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006. A law that turned flawed executive policy into flawed domes

Hearing on the mental health of war on terror' detainee José Padilla - 21 February 2007

On 28 February, a Miami judge ruled that Jose Padilla was fit to stand trial. The trial is set to begin on 16 April.

Stop the death penalty: Worldwide abolition now - 31 October 2007

Three men who escaped the death penalty joined forces in New York to campaign for a global abolition of this irreversible punishment.