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25 years remembering the disappeared | Amnesty International
29 August 2008

Since the International Day of the Disappeared was started in 1983, the government practice of kidnapping, abducting or detaining people andholding them in secret ...

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Uganda: Amnesty International Concerns on the Regulation of ...
28 August 2008

Amnesty International has a number of serious concerns about the Regulation of Interception of Communications (RIC) Bill, published on 25 May 2007 and due to be ...

Report       AFR 59/005/2008

Uganda: Amnesty International says anti-privacy bill should either ...
28 August 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AFR 59/006/2008. 28 August 2008. Uganda: Amnesty International says anti-privacy ...

Document       AFR 59/006/2008

Defending human rights in a changing world
22 August 2008

DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN A CHANGING WORLD. Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to ...

Report       ACT 30/006/2008

Tens of thousands at risk in Sri Lanka as fighting escalates ...
19 August 2008

The Sri Lankan military and the opposing Liberation Tigers of TamilEelam (LTTE) are putting displaced civilians in danger as fighting continues in northern Sri ...

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USA: Military judge hears allegations of ill-treatment of teenager ...
15 August 2008

On 13 and 14 August 2008 in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a military judge considered pre-trial issues in the case of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan national ...

Report       AMR 51/094/2008

Saudi Arabia: Further information on death penalty/ flogging
14 August 2008

Seven men named in this action had their sentences upheld by the Court of Cassation in Makkah in July 2008. Five of the men have been sentenced to death. The two ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/036/2008

Sri Lanka: LTTE, government endangering lives of tens of thousands ...
14 August 2008

Thousands of families who fled the recent fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must be allowed to move to safer areas ...

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Saudi Arabia: Further information on Death Penalty/ Fear of ...
14 August 2008

On 9 August 2008, the Jeddah General Court, which sentenced Canadian national Mohamed Kohail and Jordanian national Mehanna Sa'd to death, rejected the recommendations ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/037/2008

Guatemala: Fear for safety: Amilcar de Jesús Pop Ac (m)
13 August 2008

Amilcar de Jesús Pop Ac has been threatened with death at gunpoint by masked men, apparently in connection with his work as President of the Mayan Lawyers’ Association ...

Urgent Action       AMR 34/018/2008