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Press releases in 2003

Iraq: Security Council needs to deploy human rights monitors now

The organisation also called on the Iraqi government and the Kurdish authorities controlling parts of northern Iraq to provide the monitors with all the necessary access and cooperation. 'Whatever the...

Turkmenistan: President Niazov should keep promise, release imprisoned ecologist

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, the International League for Human Rights, and the Memorial Human Rights Centre called for the...

Bosnia-Herzegovina : Time to end impunity for 'disappearances'

It is estimated that over 17,000 persons remain unaccounted for after the end of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina seven years ago. Many of these people 'disappeared' after having last been sighted in the...

Turkmenistan: Court should release ecologist Farid Tukhbatullin

The trial against Farid Tukhbatullin will apparently start on 4 March in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat. There are well-founded fears that he might face an unfair trial. Furthermore Farid...

Syria: elections provide opportunity to release independent MPs

Interior Minister Ali Hammud has said: 'Candidacies are open to any citizen who wants to assume his civic responsibilities,' and 'We have taken all steps to make these elections a success by...