Amnesty International News
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Former Mongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar, who was granted bail yesterday, will remain hospitalized to get medical treatment after refusing water for 10 days to protest his detention on corruption charges.
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North Koreans are increasingly able to access global media and other information, loosening the communist regime’s grip on their knowledge and potentially bringing far-reaching changes to the so-called hermit kingdom.
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Jailed former Mongolian President Nambar Enkhbayar, who plans to run in parliamentary elections in June, is refusing treatment and his organs are failing six days after he began a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment.
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Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists urged Sudan to free Faisal Mohamed Saleh, a journalist who criticized President Umar al- Bashir last month and was arrested yesterday.
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A Tunisian court today fined the director of a private TV channel 2,400 dinars ($1,554) for broadcasting a film deemed blasphemous.
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U.S. diplomats defended their handling of a deal that led legal activist Chen Guangcheng to give up the safety of the American embassy, saying he later had a “change of heart” about his decision to stay in China.
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Sudanese authorities should end a crackdown on journalists that has intensified since the start of uprisings in North Africa last year, Amnesty International said.
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The United Nations has recruited only half the 300 military observers it needs to staff its unarmed monitoring force in Syria, a cease-fire mission that one Security Council diplomat said is designed to fail.
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In an unassuming former rectory in the eastern German city of Potsdam, Soviet spy catchers once tortured suspects to wring out confessions before executing their victims or dispatching them to Siberian gulags.
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was found guilty by an international tribunal for supporting fighters to commit atrocities during an 11-year civil war in neigboring Sierra Leone.
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