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Irene Khan
Secretary General of Amnesty International

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Cover of the English Amnesty International Report 2008

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Irene Khan speaks to the media during an Amnesty International demonstration opposite the Pakistan High Commission in London. The delegation comprised representatives of Amnesty International, The UK Bar Council and The International Federation of Journalists. They called for the reinstatement of the judicery and the release of lawyers, human rights defenders, and political activists detained after the imposition of a state of emergency in Pakistan on 3 November 2007.

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Activists take to the streets of London for the Global Demonstration for Myanmar, London. October 2007.

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Wang Ling, Qian Guoliang and Ye Guoqiang (left to right) protesting against house destruction for Olympic construction projects, Beijing, China, 2007. On 10 October 2007 Wang Ling was assigned to 15 months ‘Re-education Through Labour’ for signing petitions and preparing banners in protest against the demolition of her property for Olympic construction projects. Beaten, detained and imprisoned on numerous occasions, Wang Ling is currently being held at Daxing Re-education Through Labour Facility in Beijing.

Human rights activist Chen Guangcheng is currently serving a four years and three months prison sentence. Chen had been charged with "damaging public property and gathering people to block traffic" in June 2006, after he had been detained incommunicado for three months. Before his detention, Chen had been helping local villagers in their attempt to sue the local authorities in Linyi City, Shandong province, for carrying out an illegal policy of forced abortions and sterilizations which reportedly affected thousands of local women, few officials are believed to have been brought to justice or punished for such abuses.

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Hu Jia, wearing a t-shirt supporting Chen Guangcheng, at home after being held in incommunicado detetion, Beijing, China, July 2006. Because of his continual activism and public critiques of human rights violations in China, he was detained in December 2007, after spending months under house arrest. In April 2008 he was convicted of “inciting subversion of state power”. He is currently serving a three and a half years prison sentence. Hu Jia is the co-founder of the Beijing Aizhixing Institute of Health Education and an outspoken advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. He has also cofounded Loving Source, an organisation helping children who have lost their parents to AIDS-related illnesses.
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Gil Ok Won speaks to International Secretariat staff at a staff meeting, 14 November 2007 in London. Gil Ok Won was one of many women used as wartime sex slaves - comfort women - by the Japanese military, she visited the IS at the end of a speaking tour organized by Amnesty to lobby for parliamentary resolutions across Europe calling for justice for the survivors of Japan’s military sexual slavery.

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Ahmed Hassan Mahad, former Somali journalist with Radio Jowhar, killed on May 16 2007, after being detained by unknown militia while travelling to Adele district with the Governor of Middle Shabelle.
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The bodies of 10 Somalis being buried by the Red Crescent in Bakarat cemetaries near Modadishu. These 10 bodies were part of 21 bodies that were collected from Ethiopian controlled areas of Mogadishu (including the area opposite Mogadishu Stadium and the Ali Kamin junction), following the fighting in this area in late March/early April. This photo was taken on 5 April 2007.
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Jenni Williams speaking at the International Secretariat about the work of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA), a grassroots women's organization campaigning in Zimbabwe. Leaders and members from WOZA regularly take to the street to hold the government of Zimbabwe to account for its failure to meet their basic needs and are confronted by a repressive and brutal state.

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Guards from the Navy Expeditionary Guard Battalion escort a detainee to the medical facility in Camp Four, Guantanamo Bay Navy Base, Cuba, 23 November 2007.
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Protests against enforced disappearances, Pakistan

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Hand-painted sign on a street in an inner-city community in Kingston, Jamaica, 4 October 2007.

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This container serves as home to one of the Romani families at the settlement at Letanovce, Slovakia.

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Members of the Campaign for Equality protest at the continuing detention of Maryam Hosseinkhah and Jelveh Javaheri at a meeting in the Association of Journalists building on 13 December 2007.
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Al-Tanf camp, currently home to several hundred Palestinian refugees fleeing Iraq, Iraq/Syria border, February 2008.

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Demonstration against gun violence at the 'Youth in Activism' event in Pokhara, Nepal15-16 June 2007.

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At the launch of his book - at Amnesty UK’s Human Rights Action Centre on 28 April 2008 – Murat Kurnaz joined a discussion panel chaired by legal expert Professor Philippe Sands QC, who has written extensively on human rights, torture and crimes against humanity. Other panellists were Terry Waite (left), former church envoy and hostage, and Asim Qureshi, of the research group Cageprisoners.

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6 years of Guantanamo - Close Guantánamo Bay demonstration, AI UK. Sri Lankan performance artist, Jiva Parthipan is caged outside the American embassy in London. Amnesty International UK marks the sixth anniversary of US detentions at Guantanamo Bay with a series of media events as part of its campaign to close the camp. Volunteers occupied the cages, which are exact models of the Guantanamo cells, throughout the night, whilst Amnesty supporters held a vigil. January 2008.

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Burmese Monks and Irene Khan, AI Secretary General, take part in the Global Demonstration for Myanmar, London. October 2007.

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Amnesty Morocco youth activists call for the abolition of the Death Penalty, Tangiers 15 December 2007.

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Death Penalty action at Amnesty International's International Council Meeting in August 2007. 71 AI delegates took part in the action; at the time at least 71 children and young adults were in prison in Iran awaiting execution.

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AI Nepal International Day against the death penalty demonstration, the banners and placards call for the end of death penalty system in China. Following the demonstration, participants marched towards the Chinese embassy aiming to handover a letter of AI concerns. Nepal October 2007.

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