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Secret and Incommunicado Detention of Benghazi Suspect Must Stop
The U.S. government must ensure that Ahmed Abu Khattalah, who is being held in secret and incommunicado detention, gets immediate…
June 18, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International USA on President Obama at West Point: Time to Follow Through
President Obama is right to say that ‘we cannot exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everyone else,’ but…
May 28, 2014
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Amnesty Marks One Year Since President Obama’s National Security Speech
Marking one year since President Obama's national security speech on May 23, 2013, Steven W. Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty…
May 21, 2014
Press Release
After 42 years in solitary, it’s time to release Albert Woodfox
Forty two years ago today, Albert Woodfox was placed in an isolation cell in a Louisiana prison on suspicion of…
April 17, 2014
Press Release
Viet Nam: Prisoners of Conscience Released But Dozens Remain Jailed
The early release in Viet Nam of several prisoners of conscience is welcome, but serves to highlight the situation of…
April 14, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International to Highlight Local Human Rights Issues at Annual Conference in Chicago
On April 4-6 at the JW Marriott (151 W Adams St), hundreds of activists will gather for Amnesty International’s annual…
April 2, 2014
Report
Syria: Squeezing the life out of Yarmouk: War crimes against besieged civilians
Three years after popular pro-reform then anti-government protests drew a brutal response from the Syrian authorities, leading to the internal…
March 10, 2014
Press Release
Russia: Hundreds More Protesters Arbitrarily Arrested Outside Bolotnaya Trial Sentencing
The apparently arbitrary arrest and detention of a further 234 peaceful protesters outside a Moscow court building today shows how…
February 24, 2014
Press Release
Russia’s Release of Platon Lebedev is Welcome, But It Falls Short of Justice
As the start of the Sochi Olympics approaches, the Russian authorities have decided to release another prisoner of conscience in…
January 23, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Calls on Louisiana to Release Albert Woodfox
Louisiana cannot extend the abuses and injustice against Albert Woodfox another day.
January 6, 2014
Press Release
Syria’s Harrowing Torture, Summary Killings in Secret ISIS Detention Centers
Torture, flogging, and summary killings are rife in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS),…
December 18, 2013
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New Satellite Images Show Scale of North Korea’s Repressive Prison Camps
New satellite images showing the on-going development of North Korea’s two largest political prison camps.
December 4, 2013