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24 September 2008
Troy Davis received a stay of execution on Tuesday less than two hours
before he was due to be put to death by lethal injection in Georgia.
23 September 2008
The political crisis in Zimbabwe has been characterised by a series of politically-motivated
violations of civil, political, social and economic rights against real
23 September 2008
U Win Tin, a 78-year-old journalist, prominent dissident and senior
official in the main opposition National League for Democracy (NLD)
party, led by Daw Aung San Su
22 September 2008
The family of Jean Charles de Menezes will at last have the chance to
get answers to their questions about the events leading to his death,
in the course of the coro
18 September 2008
The Court of Appeal in Agadir, Morocco,
has overturned the two-year sentence imposed on blogger Mohamed Erraji.
16 September 2008
An anti-government activist leader in Myanmar remains at risk of torture following her arrest last Wednesday.
15 September 2008
Three men were executed in Japan on Thursday 11 September 2008. Amnesty International has
called for the government to immediately adopt a moratorium on
executions.
15 September 2008
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has signed a power-sharing agreement
with the leaders of the two formations of the Movement for Democratic
Change, but the implica
12 September 2008
This latest initiative paves the way for other countries to follow
suit, and makes Argentina the sixth country to ratify all the human
rights instruments of the inte
12 September 2008
The World is Watching week will see activists and supporters of the Control Arms Campaign in more than 50 countries urge their governments
to reach an agreement on an
12 September 2008
With evidence that the CIA operated a secret detention facility in Poland mounting, Amnesty International has welcomed the news that public prosecutors have initiated
11 September 2008
Mohamed Erraji was sentenced to two years for “lack of respect due to the King”. His conviction is reported to be related to an article he published on an
10 September 2008
With the swearing in of Musharraf's successor, Asif Ali Zardari, the
Pakistani government should act immediately to reverse the country's
human rights record.
10 September 2008
The Sri Lankan government’s order for United Nations and
non-governmental aid workers to leave the war-torn northern Wanni
region, could further endanger tens
10 September 2008
Musician and human rights campaigner receives the Amnesty International Award from U2 guitarist the Edge at the launch of the Small Places Tour.
05 September 2008
As Condoleezza Rice becomes the first US Secretary of State to visit
Libya in 55 years, Amnesty International urges the US government to
make human rights an integra
05 September 2008
The sole reason for the detention of five members of Hindu Rights Action Force, was for expressing concerns about the marginalization of ethnic South
Asians within Ma
05 September 2008
The trial of 49 people before an emergency court for alleged
involvement in the violent protests of 6 April 2008 in the city of
Mahalla is due to resume on 6 Septemb
02 September 2008
Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, calls on
Pakistan's new government to publish details on those held in secret
detention and shed light on the
02 September 2008
On the 25th International Day of the Disappeared, Amnesty International and Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, called upon the Pakistan governm
