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Amnesty International notes that China “ has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world .” The offences of which they are accused include communicating with groups abroad, signing online petitions, and calling for reform and an end to corruption .< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. internetfreedom. org / Background </ nowiki > Background Global Internet Freedom Consortium ( do not download anything from this site – it is a known Trojan supplier )</ ref > The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption protests, and ethnic riots, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages.
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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 ).
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" In its pursuit of torturers across the globe for the past forty years ," writer Alfred McCoy notes, " Amnesty International has been, in a certain sense, following the trail of CIA programs.
Amnesty International notes that Hinzman " took reasonable steps to register his conscientious objection through seeking non-combatant status in 2002, an application which was rejected 2003.
While Khuzestan is not unique in terms of its human rights record, Amnesty notes that often these abuses are related to institutional discrimination.
Amnesty and China
Wang also wrote “ Rebuild China with an Olympic Amnesty ” after his arrival in the United States ; the document has a more positive outlook, as he felt international events such as the Olympic Games could shed light on human rights issues in China.
Wang has been able to publish articles such as “ Rebuild China with an Olympic Amnesty ” and “ 20 years after Tiananmen ” as well as give public interviews.
Further, China has supplied military arms to Latin America and Chinese-made assault weapons have been recovered in Mexico, according to Amnesty International.
The criticism of abuses by the People's Republic of China earned Feign prizes from Amnesty International in 1996 and 1997.
" According to Amnesty International an article published in the January 2001 issue of China ’ s national security newsletter, Tohti Tunyaz “ turned his back on his homeland ” by going to Japan to study for his PhD, where he “ came under the influence of western liberal thinking ” and “ engaged in Xinjiang minority splittist activities ”.
Her activism has drawn international attention and association with recognizable human rights groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and HRIC ( Human Rights in China ).
Over the past twenty years in public letters published by multiple sources including HRIC, The China Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and Amnesty International, the Tiananmen Mothers continue to publish a list of demands:
Human Rights Watch claims that on May 26, 1994, President Clinton said China had not made significant progress on many of the issues outlined in his 1993 Executive Order, however, a tough human rights policy was hampering the ability of the US to pursue other interests Human rights groups like HRIC, Amnesty International and Human Rights watch describe in their philosophies to be critical of governments gaining international power with bad human rights records.
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Amnesty International reports that “ the security forces in Argentina first started using “ death squads ” in late 1973.
According to Amnesty International, " In, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled on the “ cotton field ” ( Campo Algodonero ) case that Mexico was guilty of discrimination and of failing to protect three young women murdered in 2001 in Ciudad Juárez or to ensure an effective investigation into their abduction and murder.
Subsequently in the 1990s, “ reports in the BMJ drew attention to a series of decrees of the RCC introducing amputation of the right hand as judicial punishment for theft, with amputation of the left foot for a second offence, amputation of one ear for evasion of the draft, military desertion, or harbouring deserters .” Amnesty International received reports that confirmed the governmental judicial acts of amputation.
Peter Pack, the chairman of Amnesty's international executive committee, said on 19 February 2011, “ The payments to outgoing secretary general Irene Khan shown in the accounts of AI ( Amnesty International ) Ltd for the year ending March 31st 2010 include payments made as part of a confidential agreement between AI Ltd and Irene Khan .” and that “ It is a term of this agreement that no further comment on it will be made by either party .” On 21 February Pack issued a further statement, in which he said that the payment was a “ unique situation ” that was “ in the best interest of Amnesty ’ s work ” and that there would be no repetition of it.
" Pack also stated that Ammesty was “ fully committed to applying all the resources that we receive from our millions of supporters to the fight for human rights .” In a statement released by Pack following the media coverage of the story, Pack described the decision to award the payment to Khan as the “ least worst option .” Philip Davies, the Conservative MP for Shipley, decried the payment, telling the Daily Express, “ I am sure people making donations to Amnesty, in the belief they are alleviating poverty, never dreamed they were subsidizing a fat cat payout.
According to the evidence collected by Amnesty International, the OJAL acted “ as one with the security forces ” and a number of people killed by these same security forces had “ received death threats some time beforehand from OJAL ”
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 International wrote of several security certificate detainees on 2 February 2007, “ Their detention has truly become tantamount to being indefinite as they have limited choices: either remain detained while continuing to pursue legal challenges to the unjust procedure that governs their cases, or agree to be returned to countries where Amnesty International believes they face a serious risk of torture .”
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