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LAST year Indonesia’s finance minister, Sri Mulyani Indrawati, invited chief executives, directors and shareholders from the country’s leading industries to banquets at her ministry. As they munched, she would give presentations setting out who among them had—and, by omission, who had not—signed up to the government’s tax amnesty. “This may be the most expensive dinner […]
Hundreds of Mosul residents were killed by airstrikes in their homes following repeated instructions from Iraqi authorities not to leave, Amnesty International says. It adds coalition forces should have known they were likely to result in civilian deaths. Citing numerous testimonies given by survivors and eyewitnesses, Amnesty said many people did not attempt to flee […]
Israel used a local Amnesty International branch as a front for the foreign ministry in the late 1960s and 1970s, according to an exclusive report by Haaretz, based on official documents authenticated and translated by the Israeli news outlet. The documents reveal how some heads of Amnesty International Israel were allegedly in regular contact with […]
Published time: 22 Feb, 2017 15:37 “Toxic” rhetoric and fear-mongering adopted by politicians during the EU referendum was responsible for the 57 percent rise in hate crime in the week after the vote, Amnesty International UK director Kate Allen says. A majority of police forces in England and Wales recently found that the level of […]
SANA/Handout via REUTERS BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s justice ministry is rejecting an Amnesty International report of mass hangings of as many as 13,000 people in a prison near Damascus, calling the allegations “totally untrue” and part of a smear campaign. The ministry’s statement was published by Syria’s state-run news agency on Wednesday, a day after […]
