The world continued to move closer to the universal abolition of capital punishment during 2006. By the end of the year 88 countries had abolished the death penalty ...
Sandro Girgvliani, a senior employee of a bank, died in January 2006 at the age of 28 as a result of severe beatings and other ill-treatment by Interior Ministry ...
Vakhtang Guchua and Zaali Akobia alleged that at least a dozen special police officers, most of whom were masked, had ill-treated them in April 2005 during and ...
This bulletin contains information about Amnesty International's main concerns in Europe and Central Asia between July and December 2005. Not every country in the ...
This bulletin contains information about Amnesty International's main concerns in Europe and Central Asia between January and June 2006. Not every country in the ...
1.) Nigeria announces commutations; 2.) First executions in Bahrain in 10 years; 3) Death penalty statistics; 4.) Saddam Hussein executed in Iraq; 5) Moratorium ...
On 28 November the meeting of the heads of the states in the Commonwealth of Independent States takes place in Minsk, Belarus. On the eve of the meeting Amnesty ...
Amnesty International is concerned about the widespread impunity of perpetrators of domestic violence in Georgia; insufficient measures and services to protect ...