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Guant?namo: Amnesty International responds to Military Commission Judge?s ruling to drop Khadr charges

Jumana Musa, Amnesty International?s legal observer at the military commission hearings in Guant?namo Bay for the last two years issued the following statement in response to today?s significant ruling by…

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Burma: EU?s Inconsistent Policy Falls Flat at ASEM Meeting

European and Asian Foreign Ministers Should Be United in Their Burma Strategy

(New York, June 4, 2007) ? The European Union?s attempts to engage with Burma by allowing the Burmese foreign minister to attend the annual Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) has failed to bring any improvements in human rights in the country, Human Rights Watch said today.

The eighth ASEM foreign ministers? meeting was held in Hamburg on May 28-29 and attended by 45 foreign ministers from Asia and Europe, and the EU High Representative for Common and Security Policy, Javier Solana.
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IFJ shocked at murder of female Afghan reporter

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked to learn of the cold-blooded murder of an Afghani reporter last week.

Ms Shokiba Sanga Amaaj, a reporter and presenter for the Pashtu language channel, Shamshad TV, was shot by unknown gunmen at her home on the night of June 1.
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IFJ condemns growing curbs on media in Pakistan

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is deeply disturbed by the trend of increasing restraints on the functioning of the media in Pakistan.

The most recent manifestation of what is clearly a rising trend in intolerance of media freedom, comes in the form of a prohibition of live coverage of events involving the suspended chief justice of Pakistan, Mr Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
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