Human Rights Today: 4.10.09

Today’s update of human rights events around the world.

ZIMBABWE: Mugabe Aides Are Said to Use Violence to Gain Amnesty

President Robert Mugabe’s top lieutenants are trying to force the political opposition into granting them amnesty for their past crimes by abducting, detaining and torturing opposition officials and activists, according to senior members of Mr. Mugabe’s party. NY Times

JAPAN: Speak out for Human Rights

Japanese flagThe Japanese government, parliament, and bureaucracy should become much stronger proponents for human rights in Asia and worldwide, Human Rights Watch said today at a news conference to open its Tokyo Office.Human Rights Watch released a letter to Prime Minister Taro Aso, urging the Japanese government to press Burma’s military government to free political prisoners, hold free and fair elections, end rampant torture, and stop attacks on ethnic minorities. Human Rights Watch

COLOMBIA: 2,000 Urabá indigenous displaced by new paramilitary group: UN

Colombian flagMore than 2,000 Embera indigenous people have been forced from their homes after a new paramilitary group entered their territory in north-west Colombia and started physically and sexually abusing the indigenous, the UN says and calls on the Government to act. Colombia Reports

U.S.: CIA to close down secret prisons

American flagThe CIA is to close down its global network of secret prisons, where “war on terror” suspects were subjected to harsh interrogation techniques, Leon Panetta, the agency’s director, has said. Al Jazeera

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