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22 August 2008
Tens of thousands who have already suffered from the renewal of violence, could be at even greater risk, if the
Philippine government supports the creation of untrain
20 August 2008
Since mid-2007, hundreds of refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants most
of them from countries in sub-Saharan Africa have risked their lives
trying to cross the Egypt
20 August 2008
After eight alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement were sentenced to death by Sudan's Anti-Terrorism Special Courts, the government prepares to try anoth
19 August 2008
The Sri Lankan military and the opposing Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) are putting displaced civilians in danger as fighting continues in northern Sri Lanka
15 August 2008
Amnesty International has welcomed last week's announcement by the spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary that execution by stoning has been suspended.
15 August 2008
Nearly 80 organisations, including a number of Amnesty International's
African sections, have come together to show solidarity with the people
of Zimbabwe.
15 August 2008
Amnesty International has described as scandalous the Israeli army's
account of firing a tank shell that killed Reuters cameraman Fadel
Shana as a "sound"
14 August 2008
The attack, on a commercial bus in Tripoli on Wednesday 13 August, also injures tens of others.
14 August 2008
Civilians in Georgia remain vulnerable to serious human rights abuses,
including attacks on the basis of their ethnicity, despite the end of
large-scale hostilities.
13 August 2008
Julia Ozorio Gamecho is the first woman to tell the Truth and Justice Commission about how she was sexually abused by the military during General Alfredo Stroessner's
13 August 2008
Eight male teachers were released without charge in Saudi Arabia on 12 July 2008, after over four months’ detention.
12 August 2008
After months of increased tension, and recent low-level hostilities,
the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway region of South Ossetia
escalated in the early mo
10 August 2008
Amnesty International has called on all sides to the conflict in South
Ossetia to fully respect international humanitarian law in order that
civilians are protected
08 August 2008
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
08 August 2008
Convicted of “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in
prison at the first US milita
08 August 2008
Malaysian opposition leader has declared that sodomy charges will not stop his campaign for a parliamentary seat.
08 August 2008
The Syrian authorities unexpectedly released Dr. Aref Dalilah on Thursday following a presidential amnesty.
07 August 2008
José Medellín was put to death in violation of the USA’s international
legal obligations and despite worldwide appeals for the execution to be
st
06 August 2008
Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo.
06 August 2008
Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of six US military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", but acquitted of &q
