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17 September 2009
Dolkun Isa is being held by the South Korean authorities. If he is deported to China he would
be at risk of arbitrary detention, unfair trial, torture and other ill-treatment
and possibly the death penalty.
01 September 2009
JS Tissainayagam was convicted of writing and publishing articles that criticized the government's treatment of Sri Lankan Tamil civilians affected by the war.
19 August 2009
On the eve of the presidential elections in Afghanistan, Amnesty International has called on the Afghan government to reverse its ban on national and international media from reporting on cases of violence and insecurity occurring during Thursday’s election.
19 August 2009
A tireless campaigner against the death penalty and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kim Dae-jung leaves a legacy of commitment to human rights and democracy.
14 August 2009
Attacks on journalists, intimidation and restrictions on reporting threaten freedom of expression in Sri Lanka
and jeopardize the safety and dignity of civilians displaced by war.
12 August 2009
Journalists in Afghanistan face increasing threats and attacks from
both government officials and the Taleban in the run-up to the
presidential elections on 20 August.
11 August 2009
Myanmar's pro-democracy leader has been sentenced to a further 18 months’ house arrest. She has been detained for over 13 of the past 20 years, mostly under house arrest.
15 July 2009
Chinese human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong has had his professional
license revoked by the Justice Bureau of Beijing Municipality.
07 July 2009
Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to fully account for the
deaths and for the 1,434 people who were detained in connection with the protests
03 July 2009
A Delhi high court has decided to decriminalize homosexuality. The ruling overturns a 19th century British colonial law.
16 June 2009
Public security police arrested a prominent human rights lawyer in Viet
Nam on Saturday for "colluding with domestic and foreign reactionaries
to sabotage the V
09 June 2009
Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who work for California-based Internet broadcaster Current TV, were both convicted of an unspecified “grave crime” against the nat
03 June 2009
The harassment of activists and lawyers continues and web sites like Hotmail and Twitter are shut down as censorship escalates.
02 June 2009
Hundreds of civilians were killed and injured as a result of the crackdown and a number of people are still in prison for their involvement in the 1989 pro-democracy p
01 June 2009
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's continued detention in Myanmar puts the human
rights spotlight on a country that has denied both economic rights and
freedom of expression to
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
26 May 2009
Dr Binayak Sen, who spent two years in an Indian prison as a Prisoner
of Conscience, was released on Tuesday after being granted bail by the
Supreme Court.
15 May 2009
The Pakistani military and Taleban insurgents should immediately allow
tens of thousands of civilians caught in the middle of ferocious
fighting to leave.
14 May 2009
Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi faces trial on Monday
after an American man is alleged to have swum across the lake in
front of her house and stayed there
