The Syrian authorities must immediately release 12 activists who have been victims of an unfair trial which could see them sentenced for up to 15 years in prison, Amnesty International said today.
Arrested for trying to organize a peaceful demonstration critical of the Libyan government, Idriss Boufayed has been released on humanitarian grounds, after being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Since the International Day of the Disappeared was started in 1983, the government practice of kidnapping, abducting or detaining people and
holding them in secret has continued and spread as more countries
accept and justify this crime.
Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,
however, little has improved for the millions of people still suffering
under repressive rule.
