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Archive for: 04/2008

  • Hong Kong must protect freedom of expression during torch relay

    We have urged the Hong Kong authorities to ensure that activists in Hong Kong are able to engage in peaceful demonstrations before, during and after the Olympic torch relay on Friday 2 May.

  • Time to tear down the wall

    On 30 April 2008 the Beijing Olympic Games are 100 days away, and Amnesty International is marking the date with the launch of national action aimed at dismantling China’s 'Great Firewall'.

  • Restore judges deposed under emergency law in Pakistan

    Ahead of a 30 April deadline set by the ruling coalition, Amnesty International calls on the Pakistan government to reinstate around 60 judges of the higher courts removed by President Pervez Musharraf under emergency law, in defiance of the country's constitution.

  • Somalia/Ethiopia: Deliberate killing of civilians is a war crime

    Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in Mogadishu on 19 April 2008.

  • Sudan should arrest war crimes suspects now

    One year after the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for two war crimes suspects in Darfur, human rights organisations around the world launched a "Justice for Darfur" campaign on 27 April, calling for the two to be arrested.

  • Police raid office of election observers in Zimbabwe

    Amnesty International has received information that at about 10 am (local time) on 25 April 2008, five police officers from the Zimbabwe Republic Police’s Criminal Investigations Department raided the offices of the Zimbabwe Elections Support Network in Harare.

  • Secret video shows horror of beheading

    Amnesty International has received secretly filmed grisly footage of a man being beheaded in Saudi Arabia. The organisation strongly condemns the execution and calls for the Saudi Arabian government to adhere to the UN moratorium on executions around the world.

  • No supply of arms until state sponsored violence ceases in Zimbabwe

    All shipments of small arms, light weapons and ammunition ordered from China by the Zimbabwe Government must be halted as there is a real risk that it may lead to increased human rights violations in Zimbabwe, said Amnesty International.

  • Somalia/Ethiopia: Release children held in raid on Al Hidya mosque

    Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian military to release some 41 children held after a raid on Mogadishu’s Al Hidya mosque on 19 April 2008, which left 21 people dead.

  • Call for human rights reform in China as the Olympic flame passes through Canberra

    As the Olympic flame passes through Canberra, Amnesty International calls on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and world leaders to take a stronger stance with the Chinese authorities on human rights abuses.

  • Barroso’s visit to China: test case for EU’s human rights rhetoric

    As European Commission president Barroso and nine other Commissioners head to China, Amnesty International warns that the success of their mission depends on real improvements in the human rights situation in the country.

  • Governments in Central Africa and UN must secure release of kidnapped women and children

    Amnesty International today called on the UN and governments in Central Africa to take immediate action to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army in recent weeks.

  • Threat of lethal force an unacceptable escalation for Tibet protests in Nepal

    Amnesty International has condemned threats by the Nepali Home Ministry to use "force, including gunfire… to prevent anti-China protests" when the Olympic torch relay arrives on Mount Everest in early May.

  • New Thai government must stand up for human rights of refugees

    Over-crowding, lack of clean water, and constant fear of being sent back to Laos where they face human rights violations: life for 154 Lao Hmong refugees, in detention in northern Thailand since 2006, is intolerable. Amnesty International calls on the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej to ensure that the group are immediately released from detention, and are issued with exit visas in order to allow them to be resettled in a third country.

  • Iraq executions follow apparently unfair trials

    Twenty-eight people have been executed in Iraq this week following what appear to have been hasty and unfair trials. Those executed were arrested in clashes that took place in the past three weeks.

  • Pakistan ratifies UN human rights convention

    Amnesty International welcomes Pakistan's ratification of a key human rights treaty and signing of two others.

  • New government must ensure justice for victims of post-election violence in Kenya

    As the new Kenyan coalition government prepares to take office, Amnesty International called on the new government to ensure that those responsible for the human rights abuses committed during the post-election violence are brought to justice.

  • Global Day of Action to ban cluster bombs

    Campaigners from more than 40 countries around the world, including Amnesty International, are hosting a Global Day of Action to Ban Cluster Bombs on Saturday 19 April 2008. This will take place a month before world governments meet at the Dublin Diplomatic Conference On Cluster Munitions from 19 – 30 May 2008 to negotiate and adopt the first ever legally binding treaty to prohibit cluster munitions.

  • Investigation needed into Israeli army killing of civilians

    The Israeli government should immediately order a full and independent investigation into killings on 16 April of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said.

  • Canada must pursue Omar Khadr’s repatriation

    The government of Canada must urgently reconsider its position that for it to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation from Guantánamo would be "premature". This young Canadian national has been in US military custody since he was 15 years old. He is now 21. During this time his rights have been systematically violated, and US assurances about its commitment to the rule of law have rung increasingly hollow. Far from being premature, vigorous action by Canada is long overdue.

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