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03 December 2009
An Amnesty International delegation also found cases of over 40 people whose whereabouts are still unknown. These human rights violations follow a massacre during a political protest in September.
16 October 2009
The draft "Anti-Homosexuality Bill" introduced on Wednesday in
Uganda's parliament would violate human rights and should be withdrawn
immediately.
01 October 2009
Amnesty International has called for an international commission of inquiry to investigate the brutal attacks committed by soliders during the suppression of a mass rally in Conakry earlier this week.
04 September 2009
The six had been sentenced on 6 August to a mandatory sentence of two
years’ imprisonment and fined 250,000 Dalasis (US$10,000) for defamation and sedition.
10 August 2009
Four student leaders arrested and detained last week while addressing
students at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, have been released.
07 August 2009
Six Gambian journalists, including three executive members of the
Gambian Press Union, were sentenced to terms in prison on Thursday.
06 August 2009
Four student leaders were arrested and detained while addressing students at the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, on Wednesday.
20 July 2009
A "Day of Action" for the people of Gambia will take place on Tuesday
and Wednesday in 12 different locations around the world including West
Africa, US, U
23 June 2009
Secretary General Irene Khan expressed her concern at the continuing human rights violations in Zimbabwe, when she met with the country's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangi
12 June 2009
As Amnesty International ends its high-level mission to Kenya, Secretary General Irene Khan urges the government to tackle impunity for human rights violatio
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
The inauguration of the Inclusive
Government in Zimbabwe brought hope of change, but
human rights violations targeted at human rights and political
activists persis
14 May 2009
The remaining three of 18 political and human rights activists who were
re-detained in Zimbabwe last week have all been released on bail.
06 May 2009
Fifteen of the eighteen Zimbabwean human rights and political activists
who were re-detained yesterday have now been released on bail, though
three remain in custody
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
01 May 2009
Despite the creation of a power-sharing government in February 2009,
teachers in Zimbabwe continue to be victims of harassment and
intimidation.
29 April 2009
The authorities in Zimbabwe have continued their persecution of two
officials of the Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party, the Movement
for Democratic Change.
23 April 2009
The Mauritanian authorities have violently cracked down on two peaceful demonstrations this month.
20 April 2009
The last three political prisoners who were abducted by state agents in
Zimbabwe in December 2008 were released on bail on Friday.
