Amnesty International Extremely Disappointed by Appeals Court Decision to Stop Release of Uighur Detainees

[Washington, DC]—Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit’s decision on Monday, October 20 to block the release of the 17 Uighur detainees from the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Their release had been ordered by the lower District Court on October 7:

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Swiss multinational turns over contested land to state authorities

The decision by Syngenta seeds, the Swiss multinational, to hand over its 127 hectare experimental farm to the Paraná state government on 14 October last, marks a welcome end to a violent conflict over the site.

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Nigeria: "Waiting for the hangman

(Abuja) Amnesty International today said that hundreds of those awaiting execution on Nigeria’s death rows did not have a fair trial and may therefore be innocent. The organization exposed a catalogue of failings in the country’s criminal justice system, saying that it is “riddled with corruption, negligence and a nearly criminal lack of resources”.

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Journalist should be freed

Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh should be freed immediately as there have never been legal grounds for his conviction or sentence, Amnesty International said today, in response to the news that a death sentence on him has been quashed by an Afghan appeals court.He was arrested on 27 October 2007 for reportedly downloading information from the internet that examined the role of women in Islam, adding some commentary and distributing it at Balkh University. He has denied this, saying that he had been coerced into making a "confession".

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Juveniles still to face the noose: authorities' word games exposed

Amnesty International deplores the re-affirmation by a senior Iranian judicial official that Iran will continue to judicially execute juvenile offenders, clarifying a misleading statement he made on 16 October.The organization is concerned that the 16 October statement, which stated that Iran would no longer execute anyone below the age of 18, irrespective of the crime allegedly committed, played with words and was intended to mislead Iranian and international public opinion.

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