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Amnesty and followed
The later Amnesty shows followed the lead of the earlier shows in presenting the most popular comedy performers of the era, and many of these were the newer, alternative comedians such as Ben Elton, French & Saunders, and Eddie Izzard.
" 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.
Written by Michael Eaton and directed by Peter Kosminsky, and produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, it was shown in two parts on 3 and 4 June 1990, with the second episode being followed by a half-hour studio discussion between Kosminsky, Conservative Member of Parliament Ian Gow ( assassinated by the Provisional IRA two months later ), Social Democratic and Labour Party MP Seamus Mallon, Ulster Unionist Party MP David Trimble, and Larry Cox of Amnesty International.

Amnesty and very
In The Secret Policeman's Biggest Ball, a benefit for Amnesty International, the sketch opens similarly, but ends very differently:
In 1986, the US Section of Amnesty International had organised the very successful Conspiracy Of Hope tour featuring leading rock musicians on an 11-day / 6-concert tour of the US.
Amnesty's British Section then booked one of Britain's largest concert venues, the 65, 000 capacity Milton Keynes Bowl and at very short notice staged a weekend-long extravaganza titled Amnesty International Festival Of Youth.

Amnesty and soon
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.

Amnesty and on
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.
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.
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.
* Amnesty International reports on the Maldives
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.
In August 1999 the U. S. affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Race, Rights & Brutality: Portraits of Abuse in the USA ," prompted by high-profile excessive-force cases involving local and state police in Chicago, New York and other cities, that called on federal officials to better document excessive-force cases and to ensure that the officers responsible are prosecuted.
In October 1999 the U. S. Affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago " summarizing on-going concerns, including those relating to brutality and improper tactics or coercion during questioning ; the detention and interrogation of children in police custody ; allegations of excessive force against suspects ; the shooting of unarmed suspects ; the disproportionate number of victims who are members of ethnic or racial minorities ; the inadequacy of police complaints and disciplinary procedures and the lack of any external oversight of the complaints process.
Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, the World Organization Against Torture, and Association for the Prevention of Torture work actively to stop the use of torture throughout the world and publish reports on any activities they consider to be torture.
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.
After The Economist ran a critique of Amnesty International and human rights in general in its issue dated 24 March 2007, its letters page ran a vibrant reply from Amnesty, as well as several other letters in support of the organisation, including one from the head of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
Trade unionists initially arrested for protesting working conditions were released on the order of President Ben Ali and officially pardoned in October 2009 in a move that was welcomed by Amnesty International.
She has toured on behalf of many other causes, including Amnesty International's 1986 A Conspiracy of Hope tour and a guest spot on their subsequent Human Rights Now!
He received Amnesty International UK Press Awards in 1998 for his reports from Algeria and again in 2000 for his articles on the NATO air campaign against the FRY in 1999.
According to Amnesty International, the Chinese government banned Falun Gong on 22 July 1999 and launched a massive propaganda campaign.
In 2010 Amnesty International " strongly condemned a worrying attack on a Rwandan opposition group " in the lead-up to presidential elections, citing the case of Victoire Ingasbire, president of the FDU-Inkingi ( United Democratic Forces ) and her aide Joseph Ntawangundi, attacked in February 2010 while collecting party registration documents from a government building in Kigali.
It is available for download on the Amnesty website, while the album was released on CD in 2006.
International bodies such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee, which monitors compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and Amnesty International have argued that many of the guarantees for individual rights contained in the Japanese constitution have not been effective in practice.
Their deaths sparked reactions from the international human rights group Amnesty International, which called on the Saudi authorities to abolish the death sentence.
In 1997, an announcement of Amnesty International's forthcoming campaign and briefing for the UN Commission on Human Rights included this quote: " The right to conscientious objection to military service is not a marginal concern outside the mainstream of international human rights protection and promotion.
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.
The day after the final concert, he was interviewed on NBC's Today Show about the origins of his support for Amnesty International and he stated: " I've been a member of Amnesty and a support member for five years, due to an entertainment event called The Secret Policeman's Ball and before that I did not know about Amnesty, I did not know about its work, I did not know about torture in the world.

Amnesty and 5
* On 5 April 2006, Amnesty International released details of the United States ' system of extraordinary rendition, stating that three Yemeni citizens were held somewhere in Eastern Europe.
On September 5, 2007, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed Amnesty Proclamation 1377 for members of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New People's Army ( NPA ); other communist rebel groups ; and their umbrella organization, the National Democratic Front.
According to Amnesty International, at least 5 people convicted of " homosexual tendencies ", three men and two women, were executed in January 1990, as a result of the Iranian government's policy of calling for the execution of those who practice homosexuality.
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.

Amnesty and October
In October 2003 Amnesty International issued a report which stated that their trial had been a miscarriage of justice.
* The USSR's section of Amnesty International was founded on October 6, 1973 by 11 Moscow intellectuals and was registered in September 1974 by the Amnesty International Secretariat in London.
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.
On 18 August 2006, Amnesty International announced that it was reviving the Secret Policeman's Ball title for its upcoming benefit show – a one-night show to be held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 14 October 2006.
The thirteenth show in the Amnesty series took place at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on 14 October 2006.
In common with the more parochial nature of the latter-era Amnesty shows ( 1987 – 2001 ) – the 2006 edition of The Secret Policeman's Ball was not filmed for international theatrical release as a movie but was instead videotaped for a UK TV special of highlights that was broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 network on 31 October 2006.
He spent 9 months in Cell 70 of Stadelheim Prison, after which he was released during the General Amnesty in October of that year.
According to accusations by Amnesty International, Zena Mahlangu, a high school student, disappeared from her school in October 2002.
In October of that year, Fallon appeared on stage in The Secret Policeman's Ball, a charity gig filmed to raise awareness of Amnesty International at the Royal Albert Hall.
In October 1979, the New York Times reported that Amnesty International had documented the disappearance of approximately 1, 500 Chileans since 1973.
* " We Are All Prostitutes " / " Amnesty International Report " ( October 1979, Rough Trade Records )
On October 17, 2006, an Amnesty International, Oxfam and International Action Network on Small Arms joint-research effort in Ituri found US, Russian, Chinese, South African, and Greek bullets.
A 1981 memorandum of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam to Amnesty International claimed that all those in the reeducation camps were guilty of acts of national treason as defined in Article 3 of the 30 October 1967 Law on Counter-revolutionary Crimes ( enacted for the government of North Vietnam ), which specifies punishment of 20 years to life imprisonment or the death penalty.

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