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2 September 2008

Amnesty International urges the Thai government to respect human rights and to remove restrictions on free speech contained in the emergency decree.

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Cuba: Further information on fear of unfair trial: Gorki Águila
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Gorki Águila was released on 29 August 2008 after a trial before a Municipal court in Havana. He was cleared of charges of “dangerousness” (peligrosidad), but found ...

Urgent Action       AMR 25/003/2008

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29 August 2008

The trial of Radovan Karadzic resumes today in The Hague. But are a small number of high profile trials enough to healthe wounds caused by the horrific violations ...

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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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Iran: Further Information on Arbitrary arrest/fear of torture or ...
29 August 2008

On 25 August 2008, Mahboubeh Karami was released on bail of one billion rials (approximately US$110000). She was charged in mid-August with "acting against national ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/128/2008

Amnesty International welcomes life sentences for Argentinean ...
29 August 2008

Organization also calls on the Argentinean authorities to investigate the 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López.

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Interview with a survivor of the Bosnia and Herzegovina conflict ...
29 August 2008

Nidzara Ahmetasevic talks about how she was wounded in the leg, about the Karadzic trial and about her hopes and dreams for the future of her country.

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Iran: Further Information on Fear of torture or other ill ...
29 August 2008

On 23 August 2008, Kurdish women’s rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi had her four year sentence of imprisonment and internal exile upheld by an appeal court in West ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/129/2008

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

Cuba: Fear of unfair trial: Gorki Águila (m)
28 August 2008

A Cuban musician who is an outspoken critic of the Cuban government has been arrested and faces up to four years in prison. Amnesty International is concerned that ...

Urgent Action       AMR 25/001/2008