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Jun 28 2012 3:59PM
ACTION: Colombian Activists Receive Death Threats (UA 180/12)

Dear Amnesty Letter Writers, Our research centre (the International Secretariat) recently found out that human rights defenders in Colombia have received death threats for carrying out their work. Last Wednesday the Inter-Church...

Jun 27 2012 9:00AM
If this tank was in your city, you'd want an Arms Trade Treaty

In a couple of hours, Londoners are in for quite a shock. We're going to be taking up a little extra room in the bus lanes with... a 17-tonne armoured tank. Try getting on one of those with a pay-as-you-go Oyster card. So, I hear you...

Jun 27 2012 7:55AM
Our Arms Treaty graphics - get sharing!

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people are killed, injured, raped, forced to flee from their homes and face untold suffering due to the unregulated arms trade - something we could change this summer with the first global Arms...

Jun 26 2012 1:20PM
Pressure on political prisoners: Bahman Ahmadi Amouie transfered to solitary

Bahamn Ahmadi Amouie , journalist and husband to DJila Baniyaquob (journalist herself with a suspended sentence) has been transfered from the common ward at the Evin prison to solitary in the notorious Rajaie Shar prison. Bahman was...

Jun 24 2012 4:15AM
Arming the Armed Opposition in Syria - the realities and the risks

Apologists for the Syrian government’s crimes against humanity are experiencing a rare moment of vindication at the moment. Or so they are leading themselves to believe. The reason? Well articles about alleged Saudi/Qatari arming of...