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Press Release
Burmese Dissident Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Join Amnesty International for a Historic Town Hall Meeting with Next Generation of Human Rights Activists
MSNBC host Alex Wagner will moderate a public conversation with the Nobel Laureate on her first US visit in two decades.
September 13, 2012
Update
Will Pennsylvania Execute A Victim Of Child Sexual Abuse?
Pennsylvania may execute Terrance Williams Oct 3; the jury never heard of his repeated sexual abuse as a child or that the man he killed was one of his abusers.
September 12, 2012
Update
Why Close Guantánamo? A Dead Man’s Poem Speaks
Adnan Latif died at Guantanamo after being held over 10 years without charge—despite a judge’s order that he be released. Is this American justice?
September 12, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Strongly Condemns “Calculated” Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi
A series of attacks by armed groups on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi left four killed, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, and several others injured.
September 12, 2012
Press Release
Extraordinary Reexamination of Evidence in Highly Flawed Missouri Death Penalty Case Opens Possible “Path Forward to Truth and Justice”
More than two and a half years into its global campaign to spare Reggie Clemons’s life and expose the serious mistakes that led to his death sentence, Amnesty International said today it is hopeful that a Missouri judge will bring to light the “highly disturbing” aspects of the 19-year-old case.
September 12, 2012
Report
Another detainee dies at Guantánamo: Yemeni man, in his 11th year of detention without charge or trial, found dead in cell
A tragic reminder of the numbing cruelty of the USA’s indefinite detention regime at its Guantánamo Bay detention facility, and the urgent need to resolve the detentions, comes with the news that another detainee has died at the naval base.
September 11, 2012
Update
Turning 9/11 Grief into Hope
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, we can draw hope from September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, people who lost family members on that terrible day.
September 11, 2012
Update
A Father Speaks Out: Don’t Let My Son Die
Rev. Reynolds Thomas is fighting to keep his son Reggie Clemons from being executed in Missouri despite a strong case for innocence and gross prosecutorial misconduct.
September 11, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Remembers the Victims of the September 11th Attacks
Those responsible for the September 11th attacks must be brought to justice in fair trials in federal court without recourse to the death penalty.
September 11, 2012
Press Release
Iraqi Authorities Must Conduct “Thorough, Impartial and Transparent” Investigation into Wave of Bomb Attacks and Shootings
A wave of bomb attacks and shootings across Iraq on Sunday reportedly killed at least 81 people, many of them civilians, and left scores more injured.
September 11, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Executive Director Suzanne Nossel Responds to Death of Adnan Latif, Guantanamo Detainee
Nossel's response to the death of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a detainee who has been held in Guantánamo without charge or trial for more than ten years.
September 11, 2012
Press Release
Moldovan Laws Must be Reformed to Combat Discrimination
Amnesty International calls for urgent changes to Moldovan laws to combat high levels of discrimination faced by ethnic and religious minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (LGBTI) people, the disabled and HIV positive people, based on the findings released in a report today.
September 10, 2012