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  • January 26, 2010
    Yemeni rights at risk as security crackdown escalates

    The Yemeni government’s increasingly heavy-handed response to the threat posed by al-Qa’ida puts the country at risk of being locked in a downward spiral on human rights, say concerned observers.

  • January 22, 2010
    Mexico must protect human rights defenders, says new report

    The Mexican authorities are failing in their duty to protect human rights defenders from killings and life-threatening harassment and attacks, a new report from international NGO Amnesty International warns this week.

  • January 19, 2010
    End the punitive Gaza blockade, says human rights group

    One year on from the end of Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, Amnesty has called on Israel to lift its “suffocating” blockade as the organisation released a new briefing on the plight of Palestinians living under the blockade.

  • January 8, 2010
    Amnesty calls for unconditional release of Malawi gay couple

    Amnesty International has urged the authorities to immediately release two Malawian men who were arrested on 28 December 2009 and charged with 'unnatural practices between males and gross public indecency'.

  • January 5, 2010
    Texas asked not to execute man who may be brain damaged

    Human rights, religious and anti-death penalty groups are calling on the US state of Texas to stop the execution of a man who may be brain-damaged. Since 1976 the USA has executed 1,188 people. There are 3,300 still on death row.

  • January 3, 2010
    Appeal to Chinese government over missing asylum seekers

    Amnesty International has called on the Chinese authorities to reveal the whereabouts of 20 ethnic Uighur asylum-seekers who were forcibly deported from Cambodia to China on 19 December 2009.

  • December 27, 2009
    Victims of Gaza and southern Israel conflict still await justice

    One year after Israel's major military offensive on the Gaza Strip, Amnesty International has again urged all parties to meet their obligations to pursue accountability for war crimes and serious human rights violations which occurred during the conflict.

  • December 17, 2009
    Russian human and civil rights group wins Sakharov Prize

    Human rights organisations in Russia have joined forces to honour Memorial, an international civil rights society which operates in a number of post-Soviet states, as they received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in the European Parliament

  • December 15, 2009
    Guatemalan authorities asked to investigate extra-judicial killings

    Amnesty International has strongly condemned the failure of the Guatemalan authorities to investigate thoroughly the extra-judicial killings in which police officers have been implicated.

  • December 10, 2009
    Amnesty infuriates Nigerian police by exposing violent abuses

    Global human rights NGO Amnesty International has annoyed the Nigerian police by exposing the shocking level of unlawful police killings in the west African country, in a new report released on 9 December.