UPDATED: Amnesty emails "most definitely not" DDoS attack, from former Microsoft CTO and current director of BusinessIQ Brett Roberts. Troy Davis has been executed after the Supreme Court rejected a request for a stay of execution.

Amnesty International has released a report detailing alleged police violence and illegal evictions last year near a gold mine in Papua New Guinea.

The report, Undermining Rights: Forced evictions and police brutality around the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea, alleges police violence and the forced eviction of families living beside the Porgera gold mine – 95% owned and operated by subsidiaries of Canadian gold mining company Barrick Gold Corporation (as part of the Porgera Joint Venture).

Amnesty International has urged the New Zealand Government to raise human rights and counter-terrorism policies with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit to New Zealand.

The government should use the opportunity of the visit and growing NZ-US relations to raise the US’ legal obligations to uphold human rights and international humanitarian law, according to Amnesty New Zealand chief executive Patrick Holmes.

Fonterra is obligated to condemn the execution of two people involved in the San Lu milk powder scandal, Amnesty International says.

But Fonterra said the executions were a matter for the Chinese Authorities. A spokesman distanced the company from the now bankrupt San Lu [which it had a 43% stake in].

Amnesty International is calling on China to take action on human rights violations in Fiji detailed in a report released this morning.

The organisation’s Pacific researcher Apolosi Bose was in Fiji during the military crackdown in April 2009 and his report, Fiji: Paradise Lost, details the interim military government’s repressive tactics against regime opposers.

Those tactics include beatings, arrests and detention, harassment of human rights defenders and limitations on the rights to freedom of expression, opinion and association.