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Amnesty International Condemns Emergency Law Expansion in Egypt, Saying Military is Taking Country Back to “Bad Old Days” of Repression
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) broadened the application of the Mubarak-era emergency law this week following clashes between demonstrators and security forces at the Israeli embassy last…
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Truth and Justice Needed to Resolve Sri Lanka Rights Crisis, Says Amnesty International
The United Nations Human Rights Council must act immediately to end the crisis of impunity that plagues Sri Lanka more than two years after the end of the bloody civil…
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Amnesty International Urges Libya’s National Transitional Council to Rein In Opposition and Vigilante Groups to Prevent Reprisal Attacks
Leaders of Libya’s rebel forces must step up efforts to rein in opposition fighters and vigilante groups to prevent further reprisal attacks and arbitrary arrests.
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Amnesty International Warns Neighboring Countries Not to Harbor Colonel Al-Gaddafi
Amnesty International said today no country should provide a safe haven for Colonel Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi and other Libyan leaders wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. The…
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Amnesty International Charges Sri Lanka Inquiry into its Armed Conflict is “Fundamentally Flawed”
The Sri Lankan government’s inquiry into the country’s civil war is fundamentally flawed and provides no accountability for atrocities.
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Sri Lanka: Inquiry into armed conflict fundamentally flawed
Thousands of civilians were killed and other serious human rights violations committed during Sri Lanka’s decades-long internal conflict, particularly during the final months. The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)…
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Amnesty International Calls on Macedonian Authorities to Deliver Justice to Victims of War Crimes
Amnesty International is calling on the Macedonian authorities to reverse immediately a parliamentary decision which will have the effect of denying justice, truth and reparation to the victims.
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Dick Cheney's Ten Year War on Truth
Dick Cheney is using his new memoir to reaffirm his support of egregious human rights abuses by the Bush Administration. Find out what's fact and what's fiction.
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Amnesty Activists Surprise Cheney at His 'Today Show' Appearance
Amnesty anti-torture activists hound Dick Cheney on his book tour, nabbing air time at his Today Show appearance.
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Amnesty International Urges Bangladesh Government to Act Now to Stop Unlawful Killings
The Bangladesh authorities must honor their pledge to stop extrajudicial executions by a special police force accused of involvement in hundreds of killings, Amnesty International said today in a new…
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Bangladesh: Government must act now to stop police unlawful killings
Hardly a week goes by in Bangladesh without people being shot in Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) operations. RAB is a special police force, created to combat criminal gang activity. But…
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Rule of Law Under Attack in Rio de Janeiro
Militia groups in Rio de Janeiro are gaining ground, while one of the state’s most effective enforcers of rule of law is now dead.