Amnesty calls for probe in Kyrgyz reporter murder
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Amnesty International urged Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday to investigate thoroughly the murder of an independent journalist which it said would have a "chilling effect" on freedom of speech in ex-Soviet Central Asia.
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The prosecutor of Russia's Volga region of Saratov was killed overnight and police believe his murder could be linked to his anti-corruption drive, Russian media reported on Thursday.
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KYIV, UKRAINE -- Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko pledged yesterday to prosecute crimes of the previous regime, including the beheading of an investigative reporter, if he wins the Dec. 26 presidential rerun.
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Amnesty International calls for an independent inquiry into reports of execution-style killings by police in Kenya.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko pledged Friday to prosecute crimes of the previous regime, including the beheading of an investigative reporter, if he wins the Dec. 26 presidential rerun.
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The United Nations on Friday said it was "very disturbed" by the death in prison of a human rights activist and journalist in Turkmenistan, and called for an independent investigation.
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A prominent Kyrgyz democracy campaigner has gone missing days before he was due to leave the Central Asian republic to monitor Ukraine's presidential election, Human Rights Watch says.
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Russia should carry out its own investigation into the poisoning death in London of former intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko, the deputy justice minister was quoted by a newspaper here as saying.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 4 -- A week after Russia's chief prosecutor announced the arrest of 10 suspects in the contract-style killing of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the investigation into her murder appears to be in disarray.
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Amnesty International urges the UN to probe alleged war crimes committed in Lebanon, a year on from the conflict.
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An inquiry is launched after an ethnic Albanian youth is killed by a Serbian border guard, sparking protests.
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Alisher Saipov, an Uzbek journalist critical of President Karimov, is shot dead in the Kyrgyz town of Osh.
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GENEVA, Aug 18  - United Nations human rights investigators on Wednesday called on Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo to identify and hold accountable those behind the massacre of at least 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees.
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Thai police probe the killing of two Russian women tourists shot dead on a beach in the resort of Pattaya.
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Human rights violations in the Russian region of Ingushetia have soared and a repeat of the systematic abuses in neighboring Chechnya is unacceptable, Amnesty International said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW -- A journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, garnering awards and accolades from around the world, was found shot to death yesterday in her apartment building. Prosecutors suspect her killing could be connected to her investigative reporting.
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Human rights violations in the Russian  region of Ingushetia have increased with a surge in abductions  and beatings, Amnesty International said on Thursday.