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Press Release
Human Rights must be at the Forefront of Third and Final Presidential Debate
Grave abuses of human rights fuel or underpin many of the foreign policy challenges that will be the focus of…
October 19, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Urges Texas to Grant Clemency to Man Facing Execution for Crime Committed as Teenager
Anthony Haynes, a 33-year-old African-American man, was sentenced to death in 1999 for the fatal shooting of white off-duty police…
October 4, 2012
Press Release
Key Human Rights Challenge to 2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates
Amnesty International is challenging the 2012 U.S. presidential candidates to commit to a set of 12 human rights goals that…
October 2, 2012
Press Release
New Amnesty International Report Exposes Severe, Inhumane Solitary Confinement Conditions for 3,000 California Prisoners
Three thousand prisoners in two California prisons are being held in solitary confinement under “cruel, degrading and inhuman” conditions that…
September 27, 2012
Report
The Edge of Endurance: Prison Conditions in California’s Security Housing Units
More than 3,000 prisoners in California are being held under extreme conditions of solitary confinement -- deprived of human contact,…
September 26, 2012
Press Release
As Special Hearing Concludes on Missouri Death Penalty Case, Amnesty International Welcomes Opportunity to Reexamine Evidence in Clouded Case
Amnesty International's Laura Moye, director of the Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty, commented today on the conclusion of the…
September 21, 2012
Press Release
On One-Year Anniversary of Troy Davis Execution, Amnesty International and NAACP Urge Attorney General Eric Holder to Investigate Misconduct in Death Penalty Cases
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) are calling on U.S. Attorney…
September 20, 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…
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…
September 11, 2012
Press Release
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement Must Uphold Core Principles of Human Rights
Negotiators from nine countries are gathering outside Washington, D.C. to draft a new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. These delegates…
September 6, 2012
Press Release
U.S. Justice Department Has Failed to Hold CIA Accountable for Torture in Detention
The Justice Department's failure to conduct a thorough investigation on well documented cases of abuse and torture of detainees is…
August 31, 2012
Press Release
Amnesty International Calls Supreme Court Failure to Stop Texas Execution of Man with Low I.Q. “Highly Disturbing”
Amnesty International said today it is "highly disturbing" that the U.S. Supreme Court – ignoring its own decade-old ruling –…
August 7, 2012