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09 October 2009
A Texas man who faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted the
Bible when deliberating his fate should have his death sentence
commuted, Amnesty International has said.
30 September 2009
Honduran de facto president Roberto Micheletti urged to rescind a decree
that provides sweeping new powers of detention to the police, bans all
public meetings and imposes a 45 day curfew.
24 September 2009
An Amnesty International campaigner, a musician and a member of the UK
parliament are visiting death row inmate Troy Davis in the US state of
Georgia.
17 September 2009
Amnesty International welcomes the release of Mexican prisoner of
conscience Jacinta Francisco Marcial.
03 September 2009
Chilean Judge Victor Montiglio issued the arrest warrants against the
agents in relation to a number of security operations that targeted
opponents of Augusto Pinochet during the 1970s.
18 August 2009
Mother of six Jacinta Francisco Marcial has been in prison since 2006. She has been sentenced to 21 years for her part in the alleged kidnapping of six federal agents in Mexico.
18 August 2009
In a 6-2 ruling, the nation's highest court decided that Davis should
have another chance to prove his innocence before the state of Georgia
puts him to death.
14 August 2009
Santiago Omar Riveros, who ran a detention centre, was found guilty of torturing and beating to
death a 15 year old boy. He is also accused of over 40 crimes against humanity involving victims of the era's so-called "disappeared".
23 July 2009
A Brazilian organization has thanked Amnesty International after an
action by the organization brought safety to a peasant farmer and land
rights activist.
03 June 2009
Terry Lee Hankins was the 16th person to be executed in Texas this year, out of a national total of 30.
28 May 2009
Amnesty International’s Secretary General has called on the G-20
grouping that brings together the world’s leading economies to lead by
example and show
28 May 2009
More than six decades of human rights failures by governments have been
exacerbated by the world economic crisis, which brought the problems of
poverty and inequalit
22 May 2009
US President Barack Obama has restated his commitment to closing the
Guantánamo detention facility and to ending the use of the so-called
"enhanced inter
14 May 2009
The US administration moved on Thursday to block publication of photographs
depicting abuse of detainees in US custody in Afghanistan and Iraq.
12 May 2009
US-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi was released from jail in Iran on
Monday following international and domestic protests at her detention.
03 May 2009
Press Freedom Day, 3 May, has, for a number of years, been a day in
which journalists and media workers marked the deaths of increasing
numbers of their colleagues a
29 April 2009
Those who watched Barack Obama take office on 20 January were part of a
far-reaching celebration of the once seemingly impossible becoming
reality.
23 April 2009
Condoleezza Rice approved the use of “water-boarding” in 2002 according
to information released on Wednesday by the US Senate Select Committee
on Intelli
17 April 2009
Four previously secret memorandums released by the new US
administration give an insight into how its predecessor lost its legal
and moral compass in turning to tort
