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Press Release
Amnesty International Visits Viet Nam for Human Rights Dialogue
Representatives from Amnesty International's Secretariat this week made their first visit to Viet Nam in decades.
February 20, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International Experts Available for Interviews on Violence in Ukraine
Amnesty International experts in Kyiv and London are monitoring the continuing violence between anti-government protesters and security forces in central…
February 19, 2014
Press Release
Grave Risk to Media Freedom in Egypt as Journalists Face ‘Terror Charges’
Egyptian authorities must immediately drop the charges against three journalists from Al Jazeera English who were referred to trial today…
February 19, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Responds to Today’s Arrests in Russia
Amnesty International USA's Executive Director, Steven W. Hawkins, responds to today’s arrests in Russia
February 18, 2014
Report
Ethnic Cleansing and Sectarian Killings in the Central African Republic
"Ethnic cleansing" of Muslims has been carried out in the western part of the Central African Republic, the most populous…
February 12, 2014
Press Release
Central African Republic’s Ethnic Cleansing and Sectarian Killings Must Stop
International peacekeepers have failed to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Muslim civilians in the western part of the Central African…
February 12, 2014
Press Release
California Must Introduce Radical Changes to Prison Isolation
The authorities in California must introduce radical changes to the cruel conditions of the state's solitary confinement units, said Amnesty…
February 11, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Responds to Washington State Death Penalty Moratorium
Amnesty International USA Executive Director, Steven W. Hawkins issued the following response after Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced today that…
February 11, 2014
Press Release
After 38 Years, Time to Release Indigenous Leader Leonard Peltier
It is time for the USA authorities to release Leonard Peltier, an Anishinabe-Lakota Native American and leading member of the…
February 10, 2014
Press Release
Afghanistan’s New Policy Is a Lifeline to More Than Half a Million Internally Displaced
Afghanistan's new policy to help more than 600,000 internally displaced people, many of whom live on the brink of starvation…
February 10, 2014
Press Release
Russian Civil Society Activist Arrested Ahead of Start of Sochi Olympics
As the start of the Sochi Winter Olympics comes closer, harassment against civil society activists has intensified.
February 3, 2014
Press Release
Hundreds of Thousands Petition Putin to End of Repression in Russia
A handcuffed Russian ballerina braved the freezing weather in Moscow yesterday as Amnesty International activists delivered a petition of 330,000…
January 31, 2014