국제앰네스티는 모잠비크 정부에게생명이 위험한 상황을 제외하고는 수도 마푸토(Maputo) 에서 벌어지는 폭력적 시위 해산에 실탄을 사용하지 말라고 요구했다.
언론보도에 따르면 지난 9월 1일 발생한 물가인상반대 시위에서 경찰과 시위대의 충돌로 인해 2명의 어린이를 포함한 최소 6명이 사망했다. 시위는 도시 곳곳에서 계속되고 있다.
국제앰네스티 물루카-안느 미티(Muluka-Anne Miti)모잠비크 조사관은 “우리는 경찰이 폭력적 시위를억제 하려는 것을 이해 하지만 살상 무력에 해당되는 실탄사용은 엄격히 생명을 보호해야 하는 불가피한 상황을 제외하고는 허용 되어서는다” 라며 “정부는 반드시 오늘 사망사건과 관해 불편부당하고 독립된 수사를 펼쳐야 하고 불법적으로 사람들이 죽음에 이르렀다면 관련책임자들을 기소해야 한다”고 밝혔다.
국제앰네스티가 모잠비크를 방문했을 때를 포함해 반복적으로 요청했음에도 불구하고 모잠비크 당국은 경찰에 의한 사망사건에 관련해 매우 적은 정보만 제공하고 있다. 
PROPOSED CHINA DEATH PENALTY REFORMS MAY HAVE NO GREAT IMPACT ON EXECUTIONS
23 August 2010Amnesty International has warned that proposed reforms of China’s application of the death penalty may not result in significantly fewer executions.
Chinese government news agency Xinhua reported on Monday that proposed amendments to China’s criminal code may see the death penalty removed from 13 out of 68 crimes that currently carry the punishment.
The draft amendments are working their way through numerous readings in China’s legislative chamber.
“Although we would welcome any reform that would in practice decrease executions in China, we are not yet convinced that these legal revisions will have a significant impact,” said Catherine Baber, Amnesty International’s Deputy-Director for the Asia-Pacific programme.
As part of its campaigning against the death penalty, Amnesty International has called on China to reduce the number of capital crimes.
“We are still waiting for the Chinese government to release the data that shows these proposed revisions are more than just legal housekeeping, removing crimes which have seldom been punished with the death penalty in recent years,” said Catherine Baber.
The draft amendment to China’s criminal code would, if passed, reportedly remove the death penalty as a punishment for white collar crimes such as tax fraud, and for smuggling valuables and cultural relics.
It would also remove the death penalty as a punishment for those over 75 years of age.
The ultimate impact of any reforms to China’s use of the death penalty cannot be publicly known and evaluated due to classification of execution figures as state secrets.
Amnesty International has called on the Chinese government to make the draft legislation and the national execution figures public, so that there can be transparent analysis and debate on the death penalty.
In a challenge to China’s lack of transparency, Amnesty International declined to publish its own minimum figures for Chinese executions and death sentences in its worldwide annual report this year on the death penalty.
China is estimated to be the world’s biggest executor.
Amnesty International said it opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception, as the ultimate violation of human rights.
