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    • Amnesty International Criticizes Sadaam's Execution and Unfair Trial

      Posted by Jeff from Rawstory

      We oppose the death penalty in all cases as a violation of the right to life and the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, but it is especially abhorrent when this most extreme penalty is imposed after an unfair trial," Malcolm Smart, director of Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa programme, said in a statement.

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    • Human rights up for vote at Microsoft annual shareholders meeting

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times

      John Harrington is a Napa, Calif., investor-activist behind this and three Microsoft shareholder proposals floated in the early 2000s regarding principles for doing business with China. The current proposal, which Harrington acknowledges has little chance of passing, notes that in 2005, "Microsoft closed down the blog of a Chinese dissident at the request of the Chinese government."

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      Amnesty to target net repression

      Posted by Billbar from BBC News

      Called Irrepressible.info, the campaign will revolve around a website with the same name. While the human rights group has run separate campaigns about web repression and the jailing of net dissidents before now, Irrepressible.info will bring them all together. The Amnesty campaign will seek to get net users to sign a pledge that opposes repressive use of the net. The pledges will be collated and presented to a meeting of the UN's Internet Governance Forum that is due to meet in Athens in November 2006.

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