CAIRO: According to Amnesty International, thousands of slum dwellers, including those under threat from forced eviction, are taking part in a week of action across Africa supported by Amnesty International and partners. Activists in Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and Zimbabwe will call on their governments to stop forced evictions and make sure that people [...]
CAIRO: According to Amnesty International, NATO has so far failed to investigate the killing of scores of civilians in Libya in airstrikes carried out by its forces. Amnesty International released a paper on the effects of the sorties. The forgotten victims of NATO Strikes says that scores of Libyan civilians who were not involved in [...]
CAIRO: The decision to lift a travel ban on seven US nationals facing trial as part of an NGO crackdown in Egypt is a welcome step but it does not go far enough, Amnesty International told Bikyamasr.com. The organization has called for the charges based on the repressive NGO law against those on trial to [...]
CAIRO: Two British journalists and their Libyan colleagues held by a Libyan militia must be set free immediately or transferred into government custody, Amnesty International has said in an official press release. Amnesty International said the detention is another example of armed militias operating independently and with impunity. Reportedly, Nicholas Davies-Jones, Gareth Montgomery-Johnson and their [...]
CAIRO: Leading human rights organization Amnesty International wants to deliver its work to Egypt’s public. In a first, the London-based rights group is to have a table at the Cairo International Book Fair in order to deliver its message to the Egyptian people and the region. The organization said that it will have a stand [...]
CAIRO: Amnesty International has accused Egypt’s interim government, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), of reneging on its promises to improve human rights in Egypt. The statement condemned the army for exacerbating the number of human rights violations in Egypt since assuming power ten months ago. According to the London-based human rights group, [...]
Amnesty International and the Center for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) are calling on petroleum giant, Shell, to pay an initial $1 billion for the cleanup of two oil spills that have devastated the fishing village of Bodo located in the Niger Delta. The two groups announced their release of a 48-page report outlining [...]
There is much excitement and hope, and apprehension too, here in Tunisia on the eve of the first real multi-party elections in the country’s history. This vote also marks a real milestone as the first elections in the region since a wave of popular uprisings swept away three of the world’s longest-ruling autocrats in less [...]
CAIRO: International human rights bodies have asked Libyan authorities to conduct a full investigation into the death of former Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gahhafi, who was killed on Thursday in his hometown of Sirte. Video footage from a mobile phone at the scene has emerged, indicating that Gaddafi was alive when he was captured by [...]
Amnesty International and the Arab Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) have criticized the Iranian regime for its treatment of civilians. AI warned Iran Sunday that the “Iranian authorities will make a farce” of the United Nations Committee hearing into Iran’s human rights record “unless they acknowledge current and past abuses.” According to AI, the [...]
Saudi Arabia has detained a 26-year-old human rights activist for the second time this year on October 2 near the town of Safwa in the Eastern part of of the country. According to London-based Amnesty International, Fadhel Maki al-Manasif has not had access to a lawyer and his family has been barred from visiting him [...]
The new authorities in Libya must stamp out arbitrary detention and widespread abuse of detainees, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing paper. In Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya the organization reveals a pattern of beatings and ill-treatment of captured al-Gaddafi soldiers, suspected loyalists and alleged mercenaries in western Libya. In some cases [...]
Egypt’s Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) must urgently explain how a protest against religious discrimination turned into a bloodbath, Amnesty International said today after deadly protests in Cairo on Sunday left at least 25 dead. More than 200 people – including many protesters and reportedly members of the security forces – were also [...]
The death of a teenage protester in Bahrain last night must be independently investigated and the findings made public, Amnesty International said today. Ahmed al-Jaber al-Qatan, 16, was shot while participating in an anti-government protest near the capital Manama after anti-riot police used shotguns and sound bombs to disperse protestors. “The tragic death of Ahmed [...]
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia executed 8 Bangladeshi men on Friday in Riyadh, international human rights organizations reported. According to information available, the migrant workers were beheaded in public for the alleged murder of an Egyptian man in April 2007. Executions in the conservative Gulf kingdom have resumed after the holy month of Ramadan, and Amnesty International [...]
AUCKLAND: Salil Shetty is the 8th Secretary-General of the human rights watchdog, Amnesty International. From 1998-2003, Shetty was chief executive at ActionAid, for which he has been heavily commended for transforming into a leading international organization. From 2003-2010, Shetty headed the UN Millennium Campaign after which he joined Amnesty. He played a pivotal role in [...]
AUCKLAND: The Curtin Detention Center, near Derby in remote Western Australia, has been condemned by the Human Rights Commission for attempting to send asylum seekers to other countries and for its long-standing policy of mandatory detention. “Detaining people, many of whom have fled experiences of torture or trauma, for long and uncertain periods in a [...]
The Swazi authorities should immediately reinstate a prominent high court judge, Justice Thomas Masuku, who has been sacked on trumped-up charges, Amnesty International said on Friday. Justice Masuku was suspended in June. He was then subjected to unfair dismissal proceedings over allegations made to Swaziland’s King Mswati III by the country’s Chief Justice, Michael Ramodibedi. [...]
A military court in Manama on Wednesday found a group of doctors and other health workers guilty of attempting to topple the government during protests earlier this year, in what Amnesty International said was a travesty of justice. At a 7-minute court session, the president of the military-run National Safety Court of First Instance read [...]
Security forces in Bahrain released 25 women who were detained after chanting anti-government slogans a day before the parliamentary elections last week. The women were arrested at a shopping mall in the capital Manama and the group had 7 minors among them. The security forces said the women were not subjected to any ill-treatment after [...]
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