Lives at Risk Issues Countries Beijing Olympics Women Indigenous Peoples Business & Human Rights News Releases Reports Annual Report Writing Letters for Justice Volunteering and Activism Events Support Amnesty Donation Forms Planned Giving This is wrong ... This Week in Human Rights Police raid Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) headquarters in Harare, 25 April 2008. STR/AFP/Getty Images 25 April 2008 Zimbabwe: Police raid office of election observers - staff in hiding This morning police also raided the offices of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Zimbabwe’s main opposition party. An estimated 375 people were reportedly arrested ... Somalians prepare the body of a man killed in Mogadishu during heavy fighting between insurgents and Ethiopian troops on April 21, 2008. MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images 23 April 2008 Somalia/Ethiopia: Release children held in raid on Al Hidya mosque 41 children are being held after a raid on Mogadishu’s Al Hidya mosque on 19 April 2008, which left 21 people dead. “The safety and welfare of the children...must be paramount for all parties,” ... Demonstrators in South Africa gather on April 19, 2008 to protest against the offloading of arms from China de...
