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Make Some Noise: Corinne Bailey Rae to release single from forthcoming album for Amnesty International

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
17 April 2007

Make Some Noise: Corinne Bailey Rae to release single from forthcoming album for Amnesty International
Corinne Bailey Rae is set to release the second single from the forthcoming Make Some Noise album for Amnesty International. Her version of John Lennon’s ‘I’m Losing You’, from Lennon’s 1980 album Double Fantasy, will be released on 23rd April.

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Make Some Noise: Corinne Bailey Rae to release single from forthcoming album for Amnesty International

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
17 April 2007

Make Some Noise: Corinne Bailey Rae to release single from forthcoming album for Amnesty International
Corinne Bailey Rae is set to release the second single from the forthcoming Make Some Noise album for Amnesty International. Her version of John Lennon’s ‘I’m Losing You’, from Lennon’s 1980 album Double Fantasy, will be released on 23rd April.

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Pakistan/South Africa: Khalid Mehmood Rashid appears after 18 months of secret detention

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International
17 April 2007

Pakistan/South Africa: Khalid Mehmood Rashid appears after 18 months of secret detention

Amnesty International today received information from Pakistan sources that Khalid Mehmood Rashid, who disappeared after being handed over by South African government officials to agents of the Pakistan Government on 6 November 2005, appeared before the “Federal Review Board” in the Supreme Court Building in Islamabad on 12 April 2007.

Although the authorities reportedly have been ordered to transfer him to a prison in Rawalpindi and allow him access to his family and medical care, Mr Rashid was still in the custody of the Inter-services Intelligence [ISI] on 16 April.

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Philippines: GRP-MILF Peace Talks to Resume After Polls

The stalled peace negotiations between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are expected to resume after the elections.

Assistant Secretary Evelyn Daplas of the Office of the Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process said the peace talks, which reached an impasse late last year, would resume ?as soon as possible, maybe within a month.?

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Ka Parago to AFP: Don’t Vent Ire on Civilians to Save Your Dishonor

1st Pulang Bagani Company
Merardo Arce Command
Southern Mindanao Regional Operations Command
New People’s Army

Press Statement
15 April 2007

NPA to AFP Eastern Command: Don’t vent ire on civilians to save your dishonor

The 1st Pulang Bagani Company calls on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to stop venting its ire on the people of Barangay Manay and Barangay Casilac, Panabo, Davao del Norte in order to deflect attention from the dishonor it has suffered in the NPA raid on the Davao Penal Colony.

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