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Amnesty International has launched a new website for people to havetheir say about the human rights situation in China in the countdown tothe Beijing Olympics.

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USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern: José Ernesto ...
17 July 2008

Mexican national José Medellín is due to be executed in Texas on 5 August 2008. He was sentenced to death in 1994 for his part in the murders of two girls, 14-year ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/081/2008

USA (Mississippi): Death penalty / Legal concern: Dale Leo Bishop ...
17 July 2008

Dale Bishop is scheduled to be executed in Mississippi at 6pm local time on 23 July. He was sentenced to death in February 2000 for the murder of Marcus Gentry ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/080/2008

Venezuela: "The law is there, let's use it" Ending domestic ...
16 July 2008

The introduction in 2007 of the Organic law on the right of women to a life free of violence has helped strengthen women’s access to their human rights in Venezuela ...

Report       AMR 53/001/2008

USA (Oklahoma): Further information on Death penalty: Kevin Young ...
16 July 2008

On 15 July, Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry granted a 30-day stay of execution to Kevin Young in order to review the clemency recommendation made by the state Pardon ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/079/2008

Venezuela: Ending domestic violence in Venezuela (summary report)
16 July 2008

This document is a summary of the report at AMR 53/001/2008. The introduction in 2007 of the Organic law on the right of women to a life free of violence has helped ...

Report       AMR 53/002/2008

Japan must respect rights of detained Greenpeace activists ...
15 July 2008

Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern to the primeminister of Japan about the detention of two Greenpeace activists,Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki, ...

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Syria: Fear of torture or other ill-treatment: Hasan Younis Qasem ...
15 July 2008

Pro-democracy activist Hasan Qasem was summoned to the General Intelligence Department, State Security Branch, in the Kafr Soussa district of Damascus, on 9 July ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/019/2008