Zimbabwe police still beating, torturing opponents: Amnesty
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Zimbabwean police are still beating and torturing human rights activists and opponents of the government despite mediation efforts launched by fellow African nations, Amnesty International said Friday.
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Electric shocks, cigarette burnings, beatings and other tortures are routinely carried out by Indonesian security forces against detainees suspected of supporting armed Aceh separatists, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday.
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The International Bar Association accused Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe of a long list of atrocities and said Friday that the International Criminal Court should bring him to justice since African nations had failed to do so.
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The beating of a leader of a budding movement to uphold motoristsâ rights in the face of police corruption has prompted an outcry.
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BOGOTA, Colombia  - Colombia's government is   leaving human rights workers vulnerable to attacks by armed   groups by discrediting their work and failing to arrest those   responsible for assaults on them, Amnesty International said in   a report released on Thursday.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Zimbabwe's main opposition leader, his right eye swollen shut and his head partly shaved to reveal crudely stitched gashes, left a courtroom yesterday and was treated at a hospital for injuries that his lawyer said were the result of savage police beatings.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Russian police of beating and torturing suspects and criticized authorities for what it said were insufficient investigations into such allegations.
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Women and girls are being raped, violently abused and humiliated in war zones around the world, but national authorities do little or nothing to punish offenders, Amnesty International reported yesterday.
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JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 18 -- A leading international research group urged southern African leaders Tuesday to offer Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his closest allies amnesty from prosecution in exchange for political reforms that might end years of misrule.
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Zimbabwe&#39;s main opposition party Monday accused government forces of a brutal attack on its arrested leader Morgan Tsvangirai and vowed to push on with a drive to topple President Robert Mugabe.
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Zimbabwe riot police arrested more than  200 opposition activists and officials on Saturday during a  meeting they were holding at their party headquarters, an  opposition spokesman said.
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Colombia remains one of the most dangerous countries to belong to a trade union, Amnesty says.
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More than 80 Zimbabwean activists are in police custody a day after they were arrested, the opposition says.
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Weeks after the disclosure of the abuse of detainees at Baghdad&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison, Department of Defense officials reported continuing brutalization of Iraqi insurgents at the hands of military interrogators, according to a just released memo.
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Zimbabwe riot police patrolled volatile districts in Harare on Monday, a day after arresting opposition leaders and killing a man while crushing a prayer meeting organized in defiance of a ban on political rallies.
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Human Rights Watch says police in the Indonesian province of Papua are carrying out serious rights abuses.
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Lawyers said on Tuesday Zimbabwe police had defied a high court order granting them access to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and others who were arrested and allegedly tortured while in police custody.