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Israel/OPT: Israel Compensation Payment to UN Ignores Rights of Gaza Victims
Amnesty International - February 22, 2010 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International has said it is concerned that the United Nations (UN) accepted US$10.5 million compensation from Israel for UN buildings damaged during last year's Gaza conflict without securing compensation for any of the actual victims of the attacks
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Lybia: Swiss Businessman Held in Libya on Politically Motivated Charges
Amnesty International - February 22, 2010 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International has called on the Libyan authorities to immediately release a Swiss businessman convicted of politically motivated immigration charges and to lift a travel ban imposed on him as a diplomatic row between the two countries continued.
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Syrian Woman Arrested after Writing Politically Charged Novel
Amnesty International - February 17, 2010 - 10:00pm
Raghdah Hassan has been held incommunicado since she was seized on the Syrian side of the Al 'Arida border crossing with Lebanon last week.
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Iran: Iran 'Shows Contempt' for Human Rights by Rejecting U.N. Recommendations, Says Amnesty International
Amnesty International - February 16, 2010 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International today criticized Iran for rejecting important recommendations by the United Nations to improve human rights in the country
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Iran: Amnesty International's Comments on the National Report presented by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the Universal Periodic Review
Amnesty International - February 11, 2010 - 10:00pm
AI asks the UN to consider discrimination against women and minorities, arbitrary arrest, torture and other ill-treatment, unlawful killings, restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and assembly, unfair trial, and the death penalty in its Universal Periodic Review of Iran.
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Iran: Amnesty International says Iran's report to U.N. paints distorted picture on human rights
Amnesty International - February 11, 2010 - 10:00pm
The Iranian government's view of the state of human rights in the country is severely distorted, Amnesty International said today in an analysis paper prepared ahead of a review of Iran by the United Nations Human Rights Council.
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Iran: Kurdish Man at Imminent Risk of Execution in Iran
Amnesty International - January 21, 2010 - 10:00pm
Habibollah Latifi was sentenced to death in 2008 in connection with his links to a banned Kurdish organization.
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Israel's Gaza Blockade Continues to Suffocate Daily Life
Amnesty International - January 20, 2010 - 10:00pm
Israel must end its suffocating blockade of the Gaza Strip, which leaves more than 1.4 million Palestinians cut off from the outside world and struggling with desperate poverty, Amnesty International said one year on from the end of Israel's military offensive in Gaza
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Yemen: Yemen Must Set Aside Prison Sentence on Female Journalist
Amnesty International - January 18, 2010 - 10:00pm
Anissa 'Uthman, a journalist working for weekly newspaper al-Wassat, faces a three month prison sentence after she was convicted of defaming President ?Ali ?Abdullah Saleh.
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Yemen: Detained Yemeni Editor and Two Sons at Risk of Torture
Amnesty International - January 18, 2010 - 10:00pm
Hisham Bashraheel and his sons were arrested after taking part in a sit-in protest to mark eight months since the authorities banned them from printing and distributing copies of the al-Ayyam newspaper.
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Iraq: Iraq Must Halt Spiralling Death Sentences
Amnesty International - January 17, 2010 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International has called on the Iraqi authorities to halt the mounting number of death sentences being handed out in the run-up to delayed national elections in March.
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Israel/OPT: Second Palestinian Activist Freed by Israel
Amnesty International - January 14, 2010 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International has welcomed the release of Palestinian human rights activist Mohammed Othman - but is concerned that the Israeli authorities have imposed conditions on him.
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Morocco: AI Welcomes Morocco's Release of Sahrawi Human Rights Defender after Monthlong Hunger Strike
Amnesty International - December 17, 2009 - 10:00pm
Organization Remains Concerned for Eight Individuals Held as Prisoners of Conscience by Morocco
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Libya: Guarantee rights of Swiss nationals caught-up in diplomatic dispute
Amnesty International - December 14, 2009 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International is greatly concerned that Max Goeldi and Rachid Hamdani, two Swiss nationals now reportedly accused of commercial and tax offences, may not receive fair trials
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Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia Must Not Flog 75-Year-Old Woman
Amnesty International - December 14, 2009 - 10:00pm
Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi and two younger men, face up to 40 lashes and imprisonment for being in the company of members of the opposite sex who are not close relatives.
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Iran: Iranian Opposition Group Supporters in Iraq Must Not be Forcibly Evicted
Amnesty International - December 10, 2009 - 10:00pm
Residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, have been given a deadline of 15 December to leave or they will be removed and relocated elsewhere in Iraq.
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Iran: Amnesty International Says Iran Focused on Covering Up Horrific Abuses Committed During Post-Election Period
Amnesty International - December 8, 2009 - 10:00pm
Organization Urges Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to Allow UN Special Rapporteurs to Conduct Inquiry in Iran.
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Iraq: Indiscriminate Attacks in Baghdad Are War Crimes, Says Amnesty International
Amnesty International - December 7, 2009 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International condemns today's indiscriminate bomb attacks in Baghdad, which according to news reports killed at least 120 people and injured 400 others, many of them civilians
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Iran: Amnesty International Condemns Excessive Force by Iranian Security in Student Protests
Amnesty International - December 6, 2009 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International condemned the excessive use of force by Iranian security forces today that saw scores of protesters beaten and detained during student-led demonstrations
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Iran: Amnesty International and Others Urge an Independent Investigation into the Mysterious Death of an Iranian Doctor
Amnesty International - November 24, 2009 - 10:00pm
Amnesty International, together with Physicians for Human Rights and the International campaign for Human Rights in Iran, today issued an open letter to the Speaker of Iran?s Parliament Ali Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi are urging that an investigation into the death of 26-year-old physician Ramin Pourandarjani be independent and transparent.
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