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24 July 2009
Yuri Samodurov and Andrei Yerofeev face up to five years in prison after organizing a Moscow art exhibition. Artists and writers have sent a letter expressing their co
10 July 2009
Mounting evidence, including a statement by former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, suggests that UK authorities expolited the torture of terrorism suspects by forei
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
18 May 2009
The first ever Baltic Pride march in Riga, Latvia passed off
successfully and peacefully - but there was violence at
similar events in Russia and Poland.
17 April 2009
There can be no stability and security for the people of Chechnya, until those responsible for gross human rights abuses in the country over the last 10 years are brou
16 April 2009
Sakit Zahidov was considered a prisoner of conscience. It is thought that he was imprisoned to silence his critical reporting of the authorities.
20 March 2009
Amnesty International has called on other European governments to
follow Ireland's lead in offering to accept a small number of
Guantánamo detainees who the U
13 March 2009
All three are reported to have been beaten and otherwise ill-treated while in detention. Two have already been detained for four years.
24 February 2009
UK resident Binyam Mohamed has been released from detention in Guantánamo Bay and allowed to return to the UK.
18 February 2009
The decision could give the UK government the green light to start deporting people to countries where they will be at risk of serious human rights abuses.
26 January 2009
A coalition of human rights organizations is calling on EU foreign ministers to help by offering humanitarian protection to
detainees at risk of torture or other seri
18 December 2008
On International Migrants Day, new footage reveals the appalling state of a French detention centre for irregular migrants off the coast of Africa and shows how Europe
17 December 2008
Three detainees were released on Tuesday from the Guantánamo detention camp to their homes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but three others remain.
17 December 2008
The European Parliament has honoured a jailed Chinese dissident in absentia with its top human rights award.
20 October 2008
The Turkish Minister of
Justice has accepted the responsibility of the state in the case of
Engin Çeber who died after being held at the Metris Prison in Ista
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
26 June 2008
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world.
03 June 2008
European Court of Human Rights strongly supports allegations that Aminat Dugaeva and Kurbika Zinabdieva were abducted by Russian servicemen.
02 June 2008
The first female judge to work at the High Court in Pakistan, Majida Razvi; a young Brighton-based Zimbabwean, Alois Mbawara; and Murat Kurnaz, released from Guant&aac
14 May 2008
Parliamentarians present US government officials with an Amnesty International declaration endorsed by over 1,200 of their counterparts worldwide.
