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Amnesty International Calls on Libya to Stop Heavy-Handed Repression of Peaceful Demonstrations As Violence Erupts in Benghazi
Amnesty International Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseWednesday, February 16, 2011Amnesty International Calls on Libya to Stop Heavy-Handed Repression of Peaceful Demonstrations As Violence Erupts in BenghaziActivists Arrested Ahead of Major Demonstration…
Press Release
Amnesty International Calls on Libya to Stop Heavy-Handed Repression of Peaceful Demonstrations As Violence Erupts in Benghazi
Amnesty International Press ReleaseFor Immediate ReleaseWednesday, February 16, 2011Amnesty International Calls on Libya to Stop Heavy-Handed Repression of Peaceful Demonstrations As Violence Erupts in BenghaziActivists Arrested Ahead of Major Demonstration…
Press Release
Libya: Amnesty International Says Libyan Writer is Jailed for Calling for Protests for Greater Freedoms in Libya
A Libyan writer and political commentator arrested last week and accused of hitting a man with his car appears to have...
Press Release
Libya: Amnesty International Says Libyan Writer is Jailed for Calling for Protests for Greater Freedoms in Libya
A Libyan writer and political commentator arrested last week and accused of hitting a man with his car appears to have...
Report
Spain: Out of the shadows – Time to end incommunicado detention
Amnesty International considers that the incommunicado regime in Spanish law is a violation of Spain’s obligations under...
Report
Sudan: Darfur: Rape as a weapon of war: sexual violence and its consequences
This report finds that rape and other forms of sexual violence in Darfur are being used as a weapon of war in order to...
Update
Tales of Terror as Rockets Fall on Benghazi
By Donatella Rovera, Amnesty International crisis researcher Yesterday, at the home of the Dbeish family in Hay Dollar, a wealthy neighbourhood in the south-west of Benghazi, Hanan, a mother of…
Update
Continued Abuses in Sudan
In the midst of what feels like an exceptionally tumultuous time in the world and in the Middle East and North Africa particularly, it is easy to let certain issues…
Report
Death Penalty in 2010: Executing countries left isolated after decade of progress
In the last decade, more than 30 countries have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. Fifty-eight countries worldwide now retain the death penalty for ordinary crimes, and less…
Update
Live Online Chat On Libya Crisis
Update: Read a transcript of the chat Join us Friday, March 25th from 1:00-2:00 PM EST for a live online chat on Facebook with Amnesty International on the crisis in…
Update
Escalation of Violence in Yemen
As most of the news have been focused on Libya, the violence by the security forces in Yemen have been intensified. On Friday a coordinated sniper attack on the anti-government…
Update
Tensions rise in Benghazi as al-Gaddafi forces mount attacks
Since yesterday, while Colonel al-Gaddafi’s spokespeople reiterate that their forces are observing a ceasefire, armed al-Gaddafi loyalists – who people identify as members of the lijan thawriya (Revolutionary Committees), groups…