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03 November 2009
Hundreds of people have been forced from their homes to make way for a
commercial development in Rivers State, Nigeria, Amnesty International
has learned.
03 November 2009
Mohammed Soudani has been detained incommunicado since he met with two
French radio journalists who were covering the presidential and
legislative elections that took place on 25 October.
30 October 2009
A photo exhibition compiled and staged at the UN by the Control Arms Campaign aims to influence negotiations for an effective International Arms Trade Treaty.
30 October 2009
Amnesty International has called for a credible and transparent investigation into the 4 September airstrike in
Kunduz that killed scores of people, many of them
civilians.
30 October 2009
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.
30 October 2009
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.
30 October 2009
The
vast majority of governments – 153 in total - agreed a timetable to
establish a "strong and robust" Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) at the United Nations on Friday.
29 October 2009
Andrei Zhuk becomes the second person to have his death sentence upheld in Belarus within the last month.
29 October 2009
In a record vote of the UN General Assembly, 187 countries said the US should end its embargo against Cuba
29 October 2009
Amnesty International is calling on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to
immediately retract his statement on Wednesday that criticising the
outcome of June’s presidential election is a crime.
28 October 2009
Amnesty International has condemned the Taleban's attack on a guesthouse hosting staff from the United Nations in Kabul, that killed at least six civilian UN staff.
28 October 2009
Two female editors at national newspaper the Sunday Leader have received death threats. The paper's founder and former Editor-in-Chief was murdered in January.
28 October 2009
At least 80 civilians were killed and 200 injured when a car bomb exploded in the busy Peepal Market in the city of Peshawar. No group has yet claimed responsibility.
28 October 2009
Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in the Indonesian province of West Papua, has received six anonymous SMS messages warning him that he will be killed if he leaves his home.
28 October 2009
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.
28 October 2009
Two members of a peasant organization in Chiapas State, currently held in a state prison, were blindfolded, bound and beaten during their interrogation.
28 October 2009
Amnesty International has warned that Zimbabwe is on the brink of
sliding back into the post-election violence that marred the country
last year.
27 October 2009
Dr Mohammad Maleki has been held incommunicado since his arrest in August. Amnesty International has expressed grave concern for his health as he is suffering from serious illnesses.
27 October 2009
Two Iranian refugees who were refused access to the asylum system in
Turkey and unlawfully detained for more than a year have been released.
