Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/asia.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010022515611&lang=e In a five to four ruling, the Court stated that capital punishment did not violate "human dignity and worth" protected in the Constitution. 2010-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=south_korea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100223002&lang=e Amnesty International, in collaboration with AAAS Science and Human Rights Program, has created a new database of human rights-related events occurring in northwestern Pakistan 2010-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100217002&lang=e Amnesty International called on the Malaysian government to end caning after three women were subjected to the punishment following their conviction for extramarital sex. This is the first time women have been subjected to caning in Malaysia. 2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=malaysia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010021715474&lang=e International and local human rights organisations have urged the Nepali authorities to stop obstructing criminal proceedings over the alleged torture and murder of 15-year-old Maina Sunuwar by four a 2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010021715464&lang=e Amnesty International calls on both sides to protect Afghan civilians as NATO and Afghan forces continue a major military offensive in the southern province of Helmand. 2010-02-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010021615440&lang=e The authorities have arrested, imprisoned and in some cases tortured or even killed ethnic minority activists, according to a new Amnesty International report drawing on over 700 testimonies. 2010-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=myanmar_burma http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010020915338&lang=e Retired General Sarath Fonseka will reportedly face a military Court Martial on charges that he revealed military secrets and plotted the assassination of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. 2010-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010020915343&lang=e Controversial new legislation is believed to be an attempt to provide legal cover for ongoing impunity for perpetrators of human rights violations, including the Taleban. 2010-02-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010020215228&lang=e Police in Papua New Guinea burnt down homes and threatened people with guns while illegally evicting them from land next to one of the country's biggest gold mines. 2010-02-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=papua_new_guinea http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100126001&lang=e UN Secretary, Karzai and other leaders to discuss security arrangements including reintegrating moderate elements of the Taliban. 2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010012615160&lang=e Human rights must not be compromised during reconciliation talks with the Taleban, Amnesty International said on the eve of a conference on deteriorating security conditions in the country. 2010-01-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20100113001&lang=e Amnesty International has again urged the Chinese authorities to end censorship of the internet after the online firm, Google, today raised concern about the hacking of human rights activists? email accounts. 2010-01-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010011214937&lang=e JS Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on terrorism charges last year, after criticizing the government. 2010-01-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2010010714882&lang=e Amnesty International has urged the Chinese authorities to release a Tibetan documentary filmmaker who has been jailed for six years for 'subversion'. 2010-01-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009122314845&lang=e 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 2009-12-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cambodia,china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009122214827&lang=e Charged with 'inciting subversion of state power', the scholar is one of hundreds of signatories of Charter 08, a proposal for political reform in China. 2009-12-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121814759&lang=e Amnesty International has called on Nepal’s government to immediately fix the flawed vetting process that allowed an army major charged with murder to participate in the United Nations peace kee 2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121814722&lang=e The Government of Mongolia has failed to effectively respond to human rights abuses that took place during the July 2008 riot in Ulaanbaatar. 2009-12-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=mongolia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009121414611&lang=e The Nepali government must ensure that Major Niranjan Basnet is arrested immediately and transferred to a civilian court for trial for torturing Maina Sunuwar to death. 2009-12-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA200222009&lang=e Indian Parliamentarians voting on a government introduced bill to amend the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) must repeal the law instead, Amnesty International said on the occasion of Human Rights Day 2009-12-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=india http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091208002&lang=e The Nepal government must immediately pursue the arrest of an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old Nepalese girl to death, Amnesty International said today. The major was expelled last week from a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Chad when the allegations emerged 2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120814494&lang=e The Nepali government must immediately pursue the arrest of an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old girl to death. 2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=nepal http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120814479&lang=e The Philippine authorities should immediately establish a clear and short timetable for an end to martial law in the country’s restive Maguindanao province. 2009-12-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=philippines http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120714463&lang=e Former prisoner of conscience Bu Dongwei spent over two years in a Chinese Re-education through Labour (RTL) camp until his release in July 2008. 2009-12-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091203002&lang=e Amnesty International reported today that China's Supreme Court must carefully review the death sentences imposed on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China. 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120314422&lang=e China’s supreme court must carefully review reported death sentences imposed today on five individuals by a court in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of northwest China, Amnesty Inte 2009-12-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=china http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009120214378&lang=e Amnesty International has called for a clear, credible mechanism to investigate civilian casualties of military operations, as the US prepares to send in 30,000 more troops. 2009-12-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091201002&lang=e Amnesty International is calling on the Sri Lankan government to permanently release civilians who have been illegally detained in camps since the end of the civil war six months ago. 2009-12-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009112714268&lang=e Amnesty International has urged the government to protect witnesses and safeguard vital forensic evidence, following the massacre of at least 57 people in Maguindanao province. 2009-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=philippines http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009112714283&lang=e Amnesty International has called on Commonwealth leaders to press the Sri Lankan government about the plight of the displaced. 2009-11-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sri_lanka