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 ).

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.

" 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.

While Khuzestan is not unique in terms of its human rights record, Amnesty notes that often these abuses are related to institutional discrimination.

In a May 12, 2005 Media Briefing, Amnesty International stated :“ Amnesty International considers Mr. Jeremy Hinzman to have a genuine conscientious objection to serving as a combatant in the US forces in Iraq.

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.

The thirteenth show in the Amnesty series took place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 14 October 2006.

To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Amnesty International, the show took place in the United States for the first time on March 4, 2012 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, again with The Secret Policeman's Ball as a title.

Meanwhile, according to Amnesty International, " Survivors say that as the massacre took place, armed forces units with armoured vehicles were stationed outside the village and stopped some of those trying to flee from getting out of the village.

As soon as he took the office, he initiated an Amnesty Law, mainly in order to free the 300 prisoners sentenced after the July 1, 2008, uprising.

External organizations including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National Education Association, Amnesty International, the Modern Language Association, and Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas also took positions in favor of retiring the Chief.

Amnesty International further considers that he took reasonable steps to register his conscientious objection through seeking non-combatant status in 2002, an application which was rejected.

In the 1960s a Friend named Eric Baker took part in the founding of Amnesty International, a human rights group primarily focused on the treatment of those in prison and those accused of crimes.

Torture and ill-treatment in Moldova remain widespread and systemic despite some initial legislative steps made by the government to change police practices in order to eradicate it, Amnesty International said on 23 October 2007.

Torture and ill-treatment in Moldova remain widespread and systemic despite some initial legislative steps made by the government to change police practices in order to eradicate it, Amnesty International said on 23 October 2007.

Amnesty International is not aware of the authorities having taken any steps to do so.

Also in 1989, the company ran a four month ' Software Amnesty for Everyone ' allowing users of pirated copies of XTree to register them for a small fee.