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Human Rights in Federal Republic of Germany

Germany: End Impunity through Universal Jurisdiction [No Safe ...
16 October 2008

This paper makes extensive recommendations for reform of law and practice so that Germany can fulfil all of its obligations under international law to investigate ...

Report       EUR 23/003/2008

Five jailed in Chile ten years after Pinochet arrest | Amnesty ...
16 October 2008

Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials onWednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the casesfor which Augusto Pinochet ...

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Germany: Amnesty International Submission to the UN Universal ...
8 September 2008

In this submission, Amnesty International provides information as stipulated in the General Guidelines for the Preparation of Information under the Universal Periodic ...

Report       EUR 23/004/2008

Germany: Further Information on Fear of forcible return/Fear of ...
25 July 2008

On 23 July 2008, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, repealed its decision to forcibly return Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah to Eritrea. Mohamed ...

Urgent Action       EUR 23/002/2008

Germany: Fear of forcible return/ Fear of torture or ill-treatment ...
4 July 2008

The German authorities are preparing to forcibly return asylum-seeker Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah to Eritrea. If returned, he is at risk of arbitrary arrest, ...

Urgent Action       EUR 23/001/2008

Europe: Victims of rendition and secret detention still seeking ...
24 June 2008

This report provides detailed information on six cases of rendition and secret detention – involving 13 individuals – which demonstrate both the pattern of illegal ...

Report       EUR 01/012/2008

Video: Murat Kurnaz, former detainee at Guantánamo and ...
16 June 2008

Murat Kurnaz was detained in Afghanistan and Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly five years.

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Different voices | Amnesty International
2 June 2008

The first female judge to work at the High Court in Pakistan, Majida Razvi; a young Brighton-based Zimbabwean, Alois Mbawara; and Murat Kurnaz, released from Guantánamo ...

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Eritrea / Germany: Fear of torture or ill-treatment ...
29 May 2008

On 14 May 2008, German immigration authorities forcibly returned Eritrean nationals Yonas Haile Mehari and Petros Aforki Mulugeta to Eritrea. Neither man has been ...

Urgent Action       AFR 64/002/2008

Parliamentarians meet US authorities over illegal detentions ...
14 May 2008

Parliamentarians present US government officials with an Amnesty International declaration endorsed by over 1200 of their counterparts worldwide.

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