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Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by fighting in northern Mali and dozens have been subjected to arbitrary detention, extra-judicial executions or sexual violence including rape, Amnesty International said today.

Two week’s ago ‘Amina’ lost her legs, her husband and her two small children. In a Tripoli hospital she tells me with remarkable composure how her life was, quite literally, blown apart. “When the regime forces attacked our village – an hour from Homs city – we fled and stayed outside, slept in an empty building,” she said.

Azerbaijan must immediately halt the police use of violence to suppress freedom of expression, Amnesty International said after two separate peaceful protests were broken up by police in the capital city Baku on Monday.

A new law which paves the way for independent investigations into allegations of police violence in Ukraine must be enforced in order to curb widespread police criminality in the country ahead of Euro 2012, Amnesty International said.