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

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Iran: Further information on Arbitrary arrest/fear of torture or ...
19 August 2008

Mahboubeh Karami was charged within the past week with "acting against national security," and the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad has scheduled her next hearing ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/119/2008

Army’s so-called inquiry into cameraman's killing in Gaza a ...
15 August 2008

Amnesty International has described as scandalous the Israeli army'saccount of firing a tank shell that killed Reuters cameraman FadelShana as a "sound" decision ...

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Solidarity with Zimbabwe ahead of SADC meeting | Amnesty ...
15 August 2008

Nearly 80 organisations, including a number of Amnesty International'sAfrican sections, have come together to show solidarity with the peopleof Zimbabwe.

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No moving backwards for Myanmar | Amnesty International
8 August 2008

Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,however, little has improved for the millions of people still sufferingunder repressive rule.

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China: Beijing Olympics - Statement in response to open letter in ...
7 August 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. STATEMENT IN RESPONSE TO OPEN LETTER IN THE IHT. AI Index: ASA 17/092/2008. 07 August 2008. Athletes signed up ...

Document       ASA 17/092/2008

Iran: Further information on arbitrary arrests/ prisoners of ...
6 August 2008

Seven members of the Baha’i religious minority have been charged with vaguely worded charges relating to national security. According to press reports, Tehran's ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/109/2008

Egypt: Further Information on Fear of ill-treatment/freedom of ...
4 August 2008

Ahmed Maher and thirteen other protestors were released without charge, from the Borg al Arab prison between 30 July and 01 August 2008. On 24 July, the public ...

Urgent Action       MDE 12/017/2008

Angola: Briefing for election monitors
1 August 2008

In the run-up to parliamentary elections, Amnesty International calls on election monitors to include human rights monitoring as a central part of their brief and ...

Report       AFR 12/002/2008

Afghanistan: Protect media freedom from intelligence agency ...
31 July 2008

The Afghan government must prevent the country’s intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate, from suppressing media freedom, said Amnesty International ...

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