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07 April 2009
At least 20 people are still held in detention in Egypt after peaceful protests on Monday.
07 April 2009
Amnesty International has said that both the Israeli and Palestinian
sides must fully cooperate with the UN's fact-finding mission.
07 April 2009
The government of Bangladesh has sought and received UN assistance in
its efforts to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity and
other serious violations o
06 April 2009
Far-right groups organized a march through the Roma-populated area in Přerov in the Czech Republic on Saturday.
02 April 2009
Francisco José Fadul, a Court President and former Prime Minister of
Guinea-Bissau, was beaten by military personnel at his home in Bissau
in the early hours
02 April 2009
Eight of the world's leading NGOs urge the G20 leaders to take long-term decisions in the interests of people and the planet this week.
02 April 2009
A Chinese environmental activist and writer is currently detained on suspicion of "inciting subversion of state power".
01 April 2009
A prominent Russian human rights activist who has long been critical of
the government has been assaulted near his Moscow home.
01 April 2009
The Israeli army has dismissed as "hearsay" the testimonies of soldiers
who served in Gaza during the recent 22-day military offensive and who
gave chillin
31 March 2009
The Roma people living under the Bacula overpass in the North of Milan,
Italy, were forcibly evicted on Tuesday by local authorities.
30 March 2009
One of Cambodia's most notorious suspected killers still alive finally
faces trial for crimes committed while he was a Khmer Rouge
commander 30 years ago.
27 March 2009
Four detained border guards have died in Bangladesh in the past two weeks.
27 March 2009
Officials involved in opening Guatemala's police archives and members
of their families have been threatened and attacked in recent days.
27 March 2009
Calls for a humanitarian truce between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan Armed Forces grow as fighting
intensifies and the number of cas
26 March 2009
The US immigrant-detention population has surged in the past decade,
resulting in a lack of due process that has driven some detainees to
attempt suicide.
26 March 2009
René González and Gerardo Hernández have been imprisoned since 1998 for 'acting as unregistered agents of a foreign government'. Their wives, Cuba
25 March 2009
The suspensions appear to be part of an ongoing government led
crackdown on an array of perceived opponents, just days before Najib Tun Razak is appointed Prime Minis
25 March 2009
Amnesty International says the visit of the Sudanese President to Egypt, should have been an opportunity to enforce the arrest warrant for war crimes issued by the Int
25 March 2009
A South Korean television journalist and trade unionist has been held
by police after he was arrested on the eve of a strike over
wage disputes and government interf
