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30 July 2008
The International Olympic Committee has said that there won't be uncensored internet access at Olympic media venues.
29 July 2008
Amnesty International is appalled by the mass execution of 29 men in
Tehran’s Evin Prison on 27 July 2008. Their deaths brought the number
of executions carrie
28 July 2008
Foreign journalists working from the Olympics press centre in Beijing are unable to access amnesty.org, as Amnesty International prepares to launch a new report evalua
25 July 2008
As the country's government and the opposition Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) prepare to enter power-sharing talks, Amnesty
International says that human right
23 July 2008
The Chinese authorities say they will now not free the housing rights activist when his four-year prison sentence expires on 26 July. Amnesty International demands he
22 July 2008
The former Bosnian Serb leader could be handed over to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in the Netherlands either this weekend or early ne
22 July 2008
A Tunisian journalist has been released eight months after he was arrested.
18 July 2008
Duygu Ozge Bayar is still wanted by the Turkish authorities after she and members of her choir were accused of spreading propaganda for an outlawed separatist group.
18 July 2008
Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo has applied for the issuance of an arrest warrant against Omar El Bashir for 10 counts of genocide, crimes against
humanity and wa
17 July 2008
Thursday 17 July marks the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute, the treaty that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
17 July 2008
Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to have
their say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown to
the Beijing Olympics.
15 July 2008
Reacting to the release of a video publicly showing Canadian
citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in
Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International
15 July 2008
Amnesty International welcomes the fact that the Italian magistrates
have held individuals accountable for the brutalities that occurred in
the Bolzaneto detention f
15 July 2008
Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the prime
minister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists,
Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, wh
14 July 2008
The family of an Iraqi hotel receptionist who died after being tortured
over a period of 36 hours while detained by UK troops in Basra, Iraq,
will be paid compensati
12 July 2008
A global day of action on Saturday 12 July used human aerial artto remind the Chinese authorities of their Olympic human rightspromises.
09 July 2008
With one month until the Beijing Olympics, Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan writes a five-point appeal to Hu Jintao.
09 July 2008
On the eve of the anniversary of Beijing being granted the 2008
Olympics, thousands of Amnesty International supporters in over 20
locations across the world will team up with Circle Up
Now to create visual representations of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights (UDHR).
08 July 2008
Tunisian authorities re-arrest prisoner and harass defence lawyers in apparent reprisal for Amnesty International's report.
04 July 2008
After six years in captivity at the hands of the FARC guerrilla group, the former Colombian presidential candidate was freed following a military operation.
