Amnesty has said that “Liu Xia has arrived in Germany.”

Once again the whole world feels the impact when Nike released the new advertising slogan of “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything”, featuring Colin Kaepernick, the famous American footballer. This decision has both raising supports from young people along with fellow athlete like Serena Williams, and ‘ignite’ the angers from a lot of others which leading to many burnings of Nike products and #NikeBoycott trending on Twitter. Even the US president, Donald Trumps, criticised the decision as well.

Responding to the news that Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, have been sentenced to seven years in jail after being found guilty of breaching Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Response, said: 

3 September 2018, Index number: ASA 39/9023/2018

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The Thai authorities must recognise that the death penalty has no place in any criminal justice system and halt any plans to carry out further executions, said Amnesty International, a month after the state carried out its first execution in almost nine years.

Responding to reports that artist Liu Xia, widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has left China and is traveling to Germany, Patrick Poon, China Researcher at Amnesty International, commented:

Responding to today’s decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, with breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Response, said:

The executions in Japan of seven members of the religious cult Aum Shinrikyo (Aum) on Friday, including the group’s “guru”, Chizuo Matsumoto, does not deliver justice, Amnesty International said.