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Le Fil. Août/Septembre 2009
1 August 2009

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/2009

Ethiopia: Canadian citizen could be sentenced to death
30 July 2009

Bashir Makhtal, an Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen, was found guilty of terror-related charges on 27 July 2009 amid concerns of an unfair trial in Addis Ababa, ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/005/2009

Ethiopia: New Anti-Terrorism Proclamation jeopardizes freedom of ...
7 July 2009

Reacting to the news that the Ethiopian Parliament has today passed an Anti-Terror Pro.

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Ethiopia: Government must reveal fate of political prisoners ...
5 May 2009

Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian government to immediately disclose the names and fate of more than 35 people believed to be held by its security ...

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Ethiopia: Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: Sixth ...
13 April 2009

13 April 2009 Public. amnesty international. Ethiopia. Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review. Sixth session of the UPR Working ...

Document       AFR 25/004/2009

Binyam Mohamed released from Guantánamo | Amnesty International
24 February 2009

UK resident Binyam Mohamed has been released from detention in Guantánamo Bay and allowed to return to the UK.

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Ethiopian parliament adopts repressive new NGO law | Amnesty ...
8 January 2009

The Charities and Societies Proclamation law could criminalise the human rights activities of both foreign and domestic non-governmental organizations.

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Ethiopia: Arbitrary Detention/Torture or other ill-treatment ...
7 January 2009

Opposition party leader Birtukan Mideksa was arrested on 28 December 2008 and is being held in Kaliti Prison without charge, in solitary confinement. She has been ...

Urgent Action       AFR 25/003/2009

Ethiopia: Government passes repressive new legislation | Amnesty ...
6 January 2009

Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly ...

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Growing calls for end to executions at UN | Amnesty International
18 December 2008

Over one hundred countries voted overwhelmingly in favour of a secondresolution on "Moratorium on the use of the death penalty" at theUnited Nations on T.

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