Among the important novelists of the 1980s were Rachid Mimouni, later vice-president of Amnesty International, and Tahar Djaout, murdered by an Islamist group in 1993 for his secularist views.

* Amnesty International, an international non-governmental human rights organization

In the 1980s, Médecins Sans Frontières, the international medical charity, supplied photographic and other documentary evidence of ritualized cannibal feasts among the participants in Liberia's internecine strife to representatives of Amnesty International who were on a fact-finding mission to the neighboring state of Guinea.

However, Amnesty International declined to publicize this material ; the Secretary-General of the organization, Pierre Sane, said at the time in an internal communication that " what they do with the bodies after human rights violations are committed is not part of our mandate or concern ".

Currently Amnesty International considers most countries abolitionist.

Among non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ), Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are noted for their opposition to capital punishment.

* Amnesty International – Abolish the death penalty Campaign: Human Rights organisation

Although President Obiang signed a national anti-torture decree in 2006 to ban all forms of abuse and improper treatment in Equatorial Guinea and commissioned the renovation and modernization of Black Beach prison in 2007 to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners, human rights abuses continue. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International among other non-governmental organizations have documented severe human rights abuses in prisons, including torture, beatings, unexplained deaths and illegal detention.

' Amnesty International ' notes that in a country where the average life expectancy is 61 or 62, this means many spend their entire adult lives in the army, frequently facing hard labor and meager wages.

Independent local sources of political information on Eritrean domestic politics are scarce ; in September 2001 the government closed down all of the nation's privately owned print media, and outspoken critics of the government have been arrested and held without trial, according to domestic and international observers, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

* End FGM campaign, End FGM European campaign run by Amnesty International.

In October 2003 Amnesty International issued a report which stated that their trial had been a miscarriage of justice.

On 28 September 2009, in what became known as the ' Bloody Monday ' massacre / 2009 Guinea protest, Amnesty International said that Guinea security forces killed more than 150 people and raped over 40 women during and following the protests.

Amnesty International said that the arrests and following raids on Greenpeace Japan office and homes of five of Greenpeace staff members were aimed at intimidating activists and non-governmental organizations.

The closing-down of the Guantanamo Prison has been requested by Amnesty International ( May 2005 ), the United Nations ( February 2006 ) and the European Union ( May 2006 ).

Amnesty International, referring to the Taliban offensive, wrote in a 1995 report:

Most international human rights organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, condemn laws that make homosexual relations between consenting adults a crime.

Japanese immigration authorities work in unison with police to investigate those reported, and human rights groups such as Amnesty International have argued that those reported do not receive proper legal protection.

( see video ) Amnesty International, referring to the Taliban offensive, wrote in a 1995 report:

According to Amnesty International, the aftermath of the war resulted in an increase in the trafficking of women for sexual exploitation.

Banda and his government were criticized for human rights violations by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

* Amnesty International reports on the Maldives

In The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball, a benefit for Amnesty International, the sketch opens similarly, but ends very differently:

Sean McBride, a former Irish minister and co-founder of Amnesty International, led a major study for Unesco: Many voices, One world – Towards a new more just and more efficient world information and communication order ( 1983 ).

In 1982, an Amnesty International report estimated that over 10, 000 indigenous Guatemalans and peasant farmers were killed from March to July of that year, and that 100, 000 rural villagers were forced to flee their homes.

Amnesty International initially estimated the death toll was between 10, 000 and 25, 000, the vast majority civilians.

Amnesty International estimated that " nearly one million people have been forced to flee Kosovo ".

The Control Arms Campaign, founded by Amnesty International, Oxfam, and the International Action Network on Small Arms, estimated in 2003 that there are over 639 million small arms in circulation, and that over 1, 135 companies based in more than 98 different countries manufacture small arms as well as their various components and ammunition.

An estimated 25, 000 more people died as a result of hunger, according to Amnesty International.

He attributes the alleged links between Amnesty International and US and UK foreign policy interests to the relatively large financial contribution of Amnesty International USA to AI's international budget, which he estimated at 20 %.

In 2006, Amnesty International reported that racism in Russia was “ out of control ” and estimated the number of Russian neo-Nazis at around 85, 000 in 2008.

Amnesty further estimated that some 300, 000 freed slaves continued to serve their former masters because of psychological or economic dependence.

In 2002, Amnesty International sent a letter to FARC-EP Commander Manuel Marulanda condemning kidnapping and hostage-taking as well as rejecting the threats directed at municipal or judicial officials and their families, arguing that they are civilians who are protected by international humanitarian law as long as they do not participate in hostilities.

Public hearings of the Human Rights Violations Committee and the Amnesty Committee were held at many venues around South Africa, including Cape Town ( at the University of the Western Cape ), Johannesburg ( at the Central Methodist Mission ), and Randburg ( at the Rhema Bible Church ).

It was originally performed by Lesley Colier and Wayne Eagling himself at an Amnesty International gala in Drury Lane, but in 1984 the Royal Ballet School presented it again at the Sadler's Wells theater.

The accused were convicted of crimes relating to murder, armed robbery, and participating in ethnic clashes in Southern Darfur that killed at least 10 people, but Amnesty International believes that the convicted were tortured and did not receive fair trials and adequate legal representation.

Amnesty International estimates that at least 81 world governments currently practice torture, some of them openly.

The " Four Yorkshiremen " sketch was performed during Amnesty International concerts ( by members of Monty Python — once including Rowan Atkinson in place of Python member Eric Idle ), as well as during Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and other Monty Python shows and recordings.

Amnesty International reported that at least 100 Falun Gong practitioners were believed to have been killed in the 2008 calendar year, either in custody or shortly after their release.

In September 1981, Sting made his first live solo appearance, performing on all four nights of the fourth Amnesty International benefit The Secret Policeman's Other Ball at the invitation of producer Martin Lewis.

Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause came in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.

The first march before the Wall, at the call of Jules Guesde, took place on May 23, 1880, two months before the Communards ' Amnesty: 25, 000 people, a symbolic " immortal " red rose in their buttonholes, stood up against police forces.

Subsequently forced into exile, after negotiations on his behalf by Amnesty International, he moved with his family to Palo Alto, California, and worked as a researcher in the Computer Science department at Stanford University.

* The Zakayev Case at Amnesty International

The first of these was the June 1979 appearances by Pete Townshend at The Secret Policeman's Ball, a series of benefit shows in London for human rights organization Amnesty International at which the usually electric guitar-wielding Townshend was persuaded by benefit producer Martin Lewis to perform his hits " Pinball Wizard " and " Won't Get Fooled Again " on acoustic guitar.

In a rebuttal published by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty in parallel to Dostum's piece, Sam Zarifi, the Asia-Pacific director for Amnesty International and a human rights investigator in Afghanistan in 2002, stated that " investigations carried out shortly after the alleged killings by highly experienced and respected forensic analysts from Physicians for Human Rights established the presence of recently deceased human remains at Dasht-e Leili and suggested that they were the victims of homicide.

The use of torture is explicitly prohibited however Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have accused officers of the British Intelligence and Security Services of being at least complicit in the extraction of information from subjects under torture by second parties.

She made her performance debut at the Festival d ' Avignon, in France, in 1979, performing the lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar, based upon Amnesty International's documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.

Radiohead played at the Free Tibet concert in both 1998 and 1999, and at an Amnesty International concert in 1998.