Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/recent91.xml en http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808275827&lang=e The filling of Boeung Kak Lake in central Phnom Penh should immediately stop until a proper process that ensures human rights protection is in place, said Amnesty International and the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808245818&lang=e As the Beijing Olympics ended, Amnesty International today accused the Chinese authorities of prioritizing image over substance as it continued to persecute and punish activists and journalists during the Games. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080824001&lang=e As the Beijing Olympics ended, Amnesty International accused the Chinese authorities of prioritizing image over substance as it continued to persecute and punish activists and journalists during the Games. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808215803&lang=e Tens of thousands of civilians who have already suffered from the renewal of violence in Mindanao could be at even greater risk if the Philippine government supports the creation of untrained and unaccountable civilian militias, Amnesty International said today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080819001&lang=e The Sri Lankan military and the opposing Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are putting tens of thousands of displaced civilians at risk as fighting continues in the Wanni area of northern Sri Lanka. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080818001&lang=e Amnesty International today accused the Sudanese government of holding hundreds of people -- including women and a nine-month-old -- without charge or access to lawyers as they prepare to try another 109 individuals in sham courts over the armed attacks by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on May 10 in the outskirts of Khartoum. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808185776&lang=e Amnesty International today accused the Sudanese government of holding hundreds of people – including women and a nine-year-old – without charge or access to lawyers as they prepare to try another 109 in sham courts over the armed attacks by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on 10 May in the outskirts of Khartoum. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080815001&lang=e On July 29, 2008, forty members of the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono requesting that he release two political prisoners: Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage. Karma and Pakage are serving 10 and 15-year prison terms for raising a flag during a peaceful protest in Abepura, Papua, Indonesia. Amnesty International has declared them prisoners of conscience and leads an international coalition seeking their release. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808145757&lang=e Thousands of families who fled the recent fighting between Sri Lankan forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) must be allowed to move to safer areas and to receive necessary humanitarian assistance, Amnesty International said today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080814001&lang=e http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808135751&lang=e The government of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir should rescind the order issued today to authorize security forces to “shoot on sight” in response to communal clashes in the town of Kishtwar, Doda district, Amnesty International said. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808115721&lang=e Amnesty International calls on all sides in the conflict in South Ossetia to fully respect international humanitarian law and as such, to ensure that civilians are protected from hostilities. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808115724&lang=e Amnesty International today welcomed the release of Syrian prisoner of conscience Dr ‘Aref Dalilah. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808105719&lang=e Amnesty International has called on all sides to the conflict in South Ossetia to fully respect international humanitarian law in order that civilians are protected from hostilities. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808085706&lang=e Amnesty International welcomes the decision by the Argentine Parliament to scrap the 1951 Military Code of Justice, thus abolishing the death penalty in all cases and closing military courts of justice. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808085718&lang=e The Syrian authorities unexpectedly released Dr. Aref Dalilah on Thursday following a presidential amnesty. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808085714&lang=e Convicted of “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in prison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808085716&lang=e Malaysian opposition leader has declared that sodomy charges will not stop his campaign for a parliamentary seat. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808075693&lang=e José Medellín was put to death in violation of the USA’s international legal obligations and despite worldwide appeals for the execution to be stopped. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080806001&lang=e Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement in response to today?s verdict in the first military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan: http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080806002&lang=e Amnesty International welcomed the announcement by the spokesperson for Iran?s judiciary that execution by stoning has been suspended, as a result of which several women have had their sentences commuted. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808065684&lang=e Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808065688&lang=e Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of sixUS military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", butacquitted of "conspiracy". http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808065690&lang=e Sodomy charges against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim may be an attempt to stop him from running for election to parliament, Amnesty International said today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808065691&lang=e "The execution of José Ernesto Medellín Rojas by the state of Texas is a violation of international law," said Amnesty International today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808065692&lang=e Amnesty International welcomed the announcement by the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary that execution by stoning has been suspended, as a result of which several women have had their sentences commuted. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808065689&lang=e "The conviction of Salim Hamdan under procedures that do not meet international fair trial standards compounds the injustice of his more than five years' unlawful detention in Guantánamo," said Amnesty International today. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808055683&lang=e Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer at the recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like there. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080804001&lang=e Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) today urged Texas Governor Rick Perry to stay the execution of José Medellin to comply with a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice, or World Court. Medellin, a Mexican national who was never informed of his right to request consular assistance, is scheduled to be put to death tomorrow. http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/document.php?id=ENGPRE200808015671&lang=e Twenty years after the start of pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar that were violently repressed, the United Nations (UN) should take stronger measures to obtain the release of U Win Tin and other prisoners of conscience detained since that day, Amnesty International said today.