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Amnesty International calls on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to immediately retract a statement he made on Wednesday calling it a crime to criticize the outcome of June's presidential election.

A man accused of killing a US journalist during a protest in Mexico three years ago is innocent and being used as a scapegoat, human rights group Amnesty International said.

Death row cell, Minsk, Belarus. © Legal initiative Simulation of execution method used in Belarus - executioner shoots victim in back of head with silenced pistol, February 2009 © Amnesty International 29 October 2009 Amnesty International has urged Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka to prevent the execution of a death row ...

I was talking Wednesday with Joshua Rubenstein of Amnesty International when I stumbled into the connection between the Iraqi immigrant from Glendale accused of running over his daughter for being too "westernized" and the Civil War general who got away with murdering his wife's lover.

On 27 October 2006, US video journalist Brad Will was shot and killed in Oaxaca City, southern Mexico as he filmed a clash between members of a local protest movement and supporters and officials of the local governing party.

Women's bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International.

The beginning of the Hague trial of former Bosnian Seb leader Radovan KaradA3 4ic on Monday, is an important step towards justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the Bosnian war, Amnesty International said.

Dr Mohammad Maleki, a 76-year old Iranian scholar and former Chancellor of Tehran University, has been incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison for 40 days.

Amnesty International is accusing Israel of pumping disproportionate amounts of drinking water from an aquifer it controls in the West Bank, depriving local Palestinians of their fair share.

Carla Gulatta of Amnesty International told The Sunday Gleaner that the country's music should be a unifying force rather than a divisive on.

Human rights group Amnesty International criticized the RCMP on Wednesday for its use of Tasers, such as the X26 seen here.

Supporters of pro-reform leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. © AP GraphicsBank 23 October 2009 The Iranian authorities must immediately release dozens of people arrested on Thursday during a prayer service in support of activists detained following protests after June's presidential election, Amnesty International has said.

Contact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-544-0200 x302 The government of Pakistan must urgently prepare for a displacement crisis as civilians continue to flee South Waziristan ahead of an expected military assault, said Amnesty International.

Sergei Kovalev, one of the founders of Russian human rights organization Memorial, speaking in October 2002 © Amnesty International 22 October 2009 Amnesty International welcomes the European Parliament decision to give the 2009 Sakharov prize for human rights to Russian activists Oleg Orlov, Sergei Kovalev and Ludmila Alekseeva on behalf of ...

Amnesty International has listed Iran as the world's second-most-prolific executioner in 2008 after China, and says it put to death at least 346 people last year.

Iran must overturn sentences issued by post-election 'show trial' Iranian-American academic Kian Tajbakhsh, on Iranian state television in 2007 © APGraphicsBank 21 October 2009 Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to overturn a 15-year prison sentence imposed on an Iranian-American academic for his alleged part in the ...

Papua's High Court has extended the prison sentences of 11 protesters who were appealing their conviction merely because they displayed a banned flag.

In England, Owen Bowcott reports , "The UK Border Agency is preparing to send the first, mass deporation flight returning failed asylum seekers to Baghdad and southern Iraq, according to a refugee organisation that monitors expulsions." The group is the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees.

FARC guerrillas © APGraphicsBank 19 October 2009 The invaluable work carried out by human rights defenders in Colombia must be respected by all the parties to the armed conflict, Amnesty International said following Saturday's attempt on the life of human rights activist Islena Rey in Puerto Rico Municipality, Meta Department.

One might think that the UK arm of Amnesty International does not take kindly to anything to do with the CIA.

As far as the Tamils are concerned, it is obvious: this is the latest manifestation of the Sinhala state racism," the British paper Guardian said in the latest weekend edition.

Troops from the government's Joint Task Force and police used firearms to disperse a crowd demonstrating against a planned demolition in the Bundu waterfront community, Port Harcourt, leaving 11 seriously injured.

IDF infantry forces in the Gaza Strip, January 2009. This is a handout image provided by the Israeli Defense Forces.

Amnesty International on Thursday called on policy makers to emphasize human rights over income in the global fight against poverty.

Human Rights Watch, a leading international advocacy group based in the United States, has denounced the Conservative government's new policy to stop seeking clemency for Canadians on death row in the U.S. The New York-based rights watchdog - which joins Amnesty International, all three federal opposition parties and a chorus of critics across ...

AI Mongolia letter writing action urging to abolish death penalty in China, Iran and South Korea.

Sami Ma'touq and Joni Suleiman were both killed by Syrian security forces in the village of al-Mishrefeh, near the city of Homs, on 14 October 2008.

The refugees, who have been sheltered in 21 government-run closed camps in the north and east of the island nation, have not been allowed to leave the camps and seek alternative accommodation, the human rights group said.

Amnesty International has condemned the execution of Behnoud Shojaee, a 21-year-old Iranian, at Tehran's Evin Prison at dawn on Sunday.

His last hopes fading, a 30-year-old illiterate Gypsy laborer whose lawyers say was tortured into confessing to murder awaits his unannounced appointment with the executioner.

Amnesty International is urging the Iranian authorities to rescind the death sentence imposed on Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, the first person to be sentenced to death in connection with protests following disputed presidential elections.

Amnesty International has highlighted a case of a man facing execution in Texas.

Vietnam has begun sentencing several political activists for publicly but peacefully calling for democracy and an end to government corruption.

On any given day, about 700 to 750 immigration detainees are housed at York County Prison, according to Warden Mary Sabol.

Three people arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election have been condemned to die, in spite of a global outcry over trials of people who claimed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election was rigged.

Barack Obama speaking in the White House East Room, Washington DC, 7 October 2009.

Amnesty International on Thursday urged all countries to halt arms supplies to Guinea following the September 28 massacre of opposition protesters by soldiers loyal to the ruling junta.

Amnesty International called Thursday for Sri Lanka to release hundreds of thousands of war refugees detained in military-run camps, saying monsoon rains could flood the centers and create a health crisis.

Simulation of execution method used in Belarus - executioner shoots victim in back of head with silenced pistol, February 2009 © Amnesty International 7 October 2009 Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenka to grant clemency to a man who may be facing imminent execution.

Amnesty International has welcomed a move by the Iranian authorities to postpone the execution of an Afghan national accused of commiting a murder while still a child.

Amnesty International is calling on the Serbian authorities and specifically Prime Minister Vojislav Kotunica and President Boris Tadic to urgently condemn attacks on human rights activists and on ethnic minorities in the country.

Successive governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina have failed to provide justice for thousands of women and girls who were raped during the 1992-1995 war, a new Amnesty International report reveals.

The human rights organization, Amnesty International , marks Banned Books Week by reminding us that in some parts of the world, the price for freedom of expression is the loss of personal freedom.

Amnesty International called on Iran today to issue an immediate order to stay the execution scheduled for Monday of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini, who was only 17 when accused of committing murder.

The Mexican authorities should not forcibly repatriate three migrants shot and injured by security forces at the country's southern border, Amnesty International said on Thursday.

Swaziland: Amnesty International condemns use of excessive force against media workers and political activists by prison officials Amnesty International today urged the government of Swaziland to institute a judicially-led public inquiry into the violent attack, on 21 September, by Correctional Services security officers on journalists and ...

Amnesty International has revealed details of the brutal attacks committed by security forces in Guinea, during the suppression of a mass rally in Conakry on Monday, and the extent to which the violence was organized by the army.

Amnesty International has asked for justice for up to 50,000 Bosnian women and girls who were raped during the country's 1992-95 war.