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 estimated that at least 184 people were " disappeared " during from 1980 to 1992 in Honduras, most likely by the Honduran military.

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 ).

According to Amnesty International, the number of kidnappings has decreased in recent years but the human rights organization estimates that FARC and ELN guerrillas continue to be behind hundreds of cases.

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

Amnesty International estimates that up to 500, 000 people were killed during the Ethiopian Red Terror

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

Human Rights Groups in Argentina often cite a figure of 30, 000 disappeared, Amnesty International estimates 20, 000 while other observers think 12, 000 is a more accurate figure.

Amnesty International believed that the total figure was likely to be much higher.

According to Amnesty International, more than 13 million people, over half the population of the country, suffered from malnutrition in the DPRK in 2003.

" In the month that followed the attacks, when New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani refused to cash a $ 10 million check written by Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in light of the Prince's suggestion that the attacks were an indication that the United States " should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stand toward the Palestinian cause ," McKinney published an open letter to the Saudi Prince, in which she wrote of her disappointment at Giuliani's action and stated, " Let me say that there are a growing number of people in the United States who recognize, like you, that U. S. policy in the Middle East needs serious examination ... Your Royal Highness, many of us here in the United States have long been concerned about reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch that reveal a pattern of excessive, and often indiscriminate, use of lethal force by Israeli security forces in situations where Palestinian demonstrators were unarmed and posed no threat of death or serious injury to the security forces or to others.

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.

The Nationale Postcode Loterij was launched in the Netherlands in 1989 and so far has raised nearly € 3. 5 billion for charities such as Amnesty International, Greenpeace, World Wide Fund for Nature and Oxfam and given out nearly € 750 million in prizes.

The lack of access to the foreign media and the tradition of secrecy in North Korea means that there is little news about political conditions, but Amnesty International's 2003 report on North Korea says that " there were reports of severe repression of people involved in public and private religious activities, including imprisonment, torture and executions.

When, in 2002, 88 people were sentenced to execution, Amnesty International speculated that they could be executed by either hanging or crucifixion.

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.

However, Amnesty International argues that since the end of the Second World War more than a dozen states have conducted investigations, commenced prosecutions and completed trials based on universal jurisdiction for the crimes or arrested people with a view to extraditing the persons to a state seeking to prosecute them.

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.

In 2003 alone roughly 2, 000 people were killed in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with Amnesty international claiming the numbers are likely far higher.

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Amnesty International states that the persecution is " politically motivated " with " legislation being used retroactively to convict people on politically-driven charges, and new regulations introduced to further restrict fundamental freedoms ".

According to Amnesty International and the UN, many countries in the world routinely torture people.

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In the early 1980s, Amnesty had a low profile in the US, and its Executive Director Jack Healey was looking for a way to raise the organisation's profile, especially among young people.

The vast publicity for the one-year-in-the-planning Mandela concert which was receiving massive worldwide live television coverage in the style of Live Aid made it virtually impossible for the comparatively last-minute Amnesty event, with less celebrated performers, organised by people without much previous experience, to succeed.

During Alexandre's acting presidency, Amnesty International reported " excessive use of force by police officers ", extrajudicial executions, a lack of investigations into these, escalation of " unlawful killings and kidnappings by illegal armed groups ", failure of officials to prevent and punish violence against women, dysfunctionality of the justice system, and forty or more people imprisoned without charge or trial.

Amnesty International openly advocates four particular children's rights, including the end to juvenile incarceration without parole, an end to the recruitment of military use of children, ending the death penalty for people under 21, and raising awareness of human rights in the classroom.

However, recently accusations have been raised from groups such as Amnesty International, who have claimed that practices of compulsory sterilization have been occurring for people who have already reached their one child quota.

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

Amnesty International collected the names of more than 17, 000 people who had " disappeared " during 1988.

In addition, Elbegdorj accused the MPRP of having ordered the death of five people during the riots ( in connection with the deaths of four of these five people from gunshot wounds, ten police officers were later charged with murder, and Amnesty International raised concerns over the use of " unnecessary and excessive force " by the police ).