Turkmenistan: the clampdown on dissent and religious freedom continues
Includes concerns regarding failed asylum seekers forcibly returned to Turkmenistan.
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Syria: appeal case: deported to where?! Incommunicado detention and torture of forcibly returned Syrians
This appeal case raises Amnesty International’s continuing concerns about a number of Syrian nationals being detained without charge or trial after being deported to Syria. Of the five men described here, detained for between four and 22 months, three have been denied access to visits from their families or a lawyer, and at least three … Continue reading Syria: appeal case: deported to where?! Incommunicado detention and torture of forcibly returned Syrians
Amnesty International’s Statements to the 2005 OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting
This document includes Amnesty International’s statement to Working Session 2: migration, refugees and displaced people.
People’s Republic of China: Uighurs fleeing persecution as China wages its war on terror
The first section of this report gives an overview of the human rights situation in the XUAR, including recent developments in China’s official propaganda campaign against terrorism. The second section describes the plight of Uighurs in other countries, including those who apply for asylum. According to Amnesty International’s research, several disturbing trends have emerged or … Continue reading People’s Republic of China: Uighurs fleeing persecution as China wages its war on terror
Russian Federation: normalization in whose eyes?
This report is based on the findings of an Amnesty International delegation which travelled to Ingushetia in March/April 2004 as well as ongoing research conducted from Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London.
Sudan: 1.2 million internally displaced people at risk in Darfur
An estimated 1.2 million people who have been internally displaced in Darfur by the conflict are facing the real threat of famine as well as continuing violence at the hands of the government backed militia, the Janjawid, who often operate alongside government forces.
Afghanistan: out of sight, out of mind: the fate of the Afghan returnees
This report focuses on the situation of returnees in Afghanistan, and their situation before returning.
People’s Republic of China: continuing abuses under a new leadership: summary of human rights concerns
Includes numerous concerns regarding refugees and asylum seekers forcibly returned to China, and regarding North Korean refugees in China
Malta: open letter to the government of Malta
Amnesty International is seriously concerned about issues surrounding the reception and treatment of recently arrived asylum-seekers in Malta and fears that, unless claims for protection are adequately examined, many could be at risk of serious human rights abuses upon return to their countries of origin.
Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority
In February 2001, thousands of people from indigenous minorities, collectively known as Montagnards, held protests in the Vietnamese Central Highlands focusing on a number of grievances, including anger at government confiscation of their ancestral forest homelands, an influx of lowland Vietnamese settlers taking their agricultural land, lack of freedom of worship for the many who … Continue reading Socialist Republic of Viet Nam/Kingdom of Cambodia: no sanctuary: the plight of Montagnard minority