New Delhi: The US special operation in Pakistan's Abbottabad town in May last year that killed Osama bin Laden in his hideout appears to have been "unlawful" in the absence of clarification from the US, human rights group Amnesty International has said. "The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the US's theory of a global armed conflict between the US and al Qaeda, in which...
08:03 AM, May 25, 2012
Norway: The right-wing fanatic on trial for massacring 77 people in Norway says he wants either freedom or death, calling the country's prison terms "pathetic" and arguing for the return of capital punishment, which was last used here to execute Nazi collaborators after World War II. On the third day of his terror trial, Anders Behring Breivik was grilled by prosecutors about the anti-Muslim militant group he claims to belong...
03:28 AM, Apr 19, 2012
London: Iran has "dramatically escalated" a crackdown on dissent in the run-up to this week's parliamentary elections, arresting lawyers, students and journalists and targeting electronic media, human rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday. "In Iran today you put yourself at risk if you do anything that might fall outside the increasingly narrow confines of what the authorities deem socially or politically acceptable," said Ann Harrison, an Amnesty Middle East...
08:06 PM, Feb 28, 2012
Bangalore: The Government on Friday said an amnesty scheme for bringing back black money is not on the cards though it is working on regulatory mechanisms to eliminate its root cause in the face of "lots of legal impediments" to target those funds stashed abroad. Asked if there is a move for an amnesty scheme to bring back black money, Union Corporate Affairs Minister M Veerappa Moily said, "Whether the...
09:28 PM, Feb 10, 2012
New Delhi: Human Rights group Amnesty International on Wednesday demanded that security personnel facing serious charges like rape and murder should stand trial and not hide behind Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Welcoming the Supreme Court statement that personnel involved in rape and murder could invoke AFSPA, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific Program Director Sam Zarifi said, "for far too long, Indian security forces have used the AFSPA as a cover...
05:03 AM, Feb 09, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Hours after former Kerala minister R. Balakrishna Pillai and 137 others were released from jail on Tuesday, Leader of Opposition V.S. Achuthanandan filed a petition in the apex court demanding that the amnesty given by the state government to Pillai be cancelled. The 76-year-old Pillai, chief of the Kerala Congress-Pillai -- an ally of the Congress-led coalition, was in February this year sentenced by the apex court to an...
10:10 AM, Nov 01, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Jailed former minister R. Balakrishna Pillai and 137 other inmates will be released ON Tuesday, while the jail terms of 2,500 prisoners will be reduced as part of an amnesty scheme of the Kerala government. The amnesty is being given on the occasion of Kerala Day on Nov 1, the government announced on Monday. The 76-year-old ruling coalition leader was handed a one-year jail term in February this year...
04:33 PM, Oct 31, 2011
Dhaka: Eight Bangladeshi migrants were beheaded in public in the Saudi Arabian capital after they were convicted of killing an Egyptian security guard four years ago, a media report said. They were charged with robbing a warehouse and killing a security guard, Egyptian national Hussein Saeed Mohammed Abdulkhaleq, in April 2007, bdnews24.com reported on Saturday. Mamun Abdul Mannan, Faruq Jamal, Sumon Miah, Mohammed Sumon, Shafiq al-Islam, Masud Shamsul Haque, Abu...
11:02 AM, Oct 09, 2011
Jammu: The central government-appointed interlocutors on Jammu and Kashmir which will study rights watchdog Amnesty International's report alleging human rights abuses in the state under the Public Safety Act, informed sources said. "Human rights abuses is one of the major concerns of the interlocutors and they have already made their concerns known in public," a source close to the interlocutors told IANS. "They would be closely studying the Amnesty report...
10:44 AM, Mar 22, 2011
New Delhi: It’s the verdict which has left many across India completely shocked. Dr Binayak Sen being pronounced guilty by a Raipur Sessions Court has left human rights activists, leading jurists and writers appalled. A travesty of justice: That is how leading human rights defenders, activists and jurists have greeted the verdict of the Raipur sessions court which held Dr Binayak Sen guity of sedition and sentenced him to life....
11:15 PM, Dec 25, 2010
New Delhi: International human rights group Amnesty International has slammed the life sentence awarded on Friday to activist Dr Binayak Sen by a court in Raipur. In a statement on Saturday Amnesty International said that fair trial standards were violated in the case against Dr Binayak Sen. It has termed the sentence unusually harsh, claiming that since Dr Sen is an internationally recognised human rights defender who has never been...
01:53 PM, Dec 25, 2010
At $ 1.2 billion, the two summits, spanning three days, will be the costliest 72 hours in Canadian history. ...
12:56 PM, Jun 03, 2010
17 Indians were found guilty over the murder of a Pakistani in Sharjah and were sentenced to death. ...
09:08 AM, Apr 25, 2010
Amnesty's new chief Salil Shetty headed the UN Millennium Campaign. ...
09:24 AM, Feb 02, 2010
Tension in country as court scraps President Zardari's amnesty. ...
11:20 AM, Dec 18, 2009
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