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Open letter to Sri Lanka's President on the killing of 26 detainees

Police and army personnel deployed at the rehabilitation camp failed to protect the inmates from villagers armed with machetes and clubs. There are further allegations that some of them may have been...

Failure to investigate deaths cheapens life

'Human life is being cheapened by a mindset which seems to regard the killing of more than 130 Palestinians, including nearly 40 Children's rights, and the killing of two detained Israeli soldiers as...

Proposal to legalise impunity even further is unacceptable

'Laws such as the 1995 Amnesty Laws, which halt investigations and judicial proceedings into cases of human rights violations, are in breach of international law as well as an affront to the victims...

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CALLS ON UK TO PREVENT EQUIPPING OF ISRAELI ATTACK HELICOPTERS

Israeli forces have used US-supplied helicopter gunships to violate the human rights of Palestinians in punitive attacks – on civilians, including Children's rights - where there was no imminent...

Uighur man reportedly tortured to death

'This case highlights the urgent need for international action on torture. Abdulhelil Abdumijit, a 31-year old street trader from Gulja city in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR), was accused of...

The statute of the Special Court must make all recruitment of Children's rights under 15 a crime

'Any recruitment of Children's rights under the age of 15 is a crime under international law,' the organisation said.' It is therefore unacceptable to include only abduction and forced recruitment of...

New convictions overshadow releases

In its new report entitled 'Cuba: Prisoners of conscience: New convictions overshadow releases.' , Amnesty International highlighted its concern about prisoners of conscience in Cuba. In July, Nestor...

FINDINGS OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S DELEGATION

Amnesty International today published a report based on the findings of its delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories. 'The impunity for those who commit human rights violations and the lack...

FINDINGS OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL'S DELEGATION

'In policing the recent demonstrations, the Israeli security forces tended to use military methods rather than policing methods involving the protection of human lives,' Amnesty International said...

Torture feeds off discrimination

Torture and ill-treatment persists across the European region - from the United Kingdom to Azerbaijan. Torture and ill treatment has been documented by Amnesty International in at least 25 countries...