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Amnesty International Reports High Civilian Death Toll in Syria from Relentless and Indiscriminate Bombing and Shelling of Northwest Towns and Villages
The Syrian army is waging a relentless and indiscriminate campaign of air bombardments and shelling in northern Syria with civilians as the main victims, many of them children.
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Cambodia: Amnesty International welcomes Ieng Thirith decision
Cambodia's U.N.-backed genocide tribunal today declared Ieng Thirith, one of the alleged senior Khmer Rouge leaders, unfit to stand trial and ordered her release from detention.
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Amnesty International Calls on Egypt to Arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir Upon Entry into Egypt
Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir, wanted by the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity, is due to meet President Mohamed Morsi and other top Egyptian officials as part of…
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Amnesty International Calls on Cuba to Say Why They are Holding Jorge Vázquez Chaviano or Release Him
The Cuban authorities must either explain why they failed to release detainee Jorge Vázquez Chaviano as scheduled on September 9 or let him go immediately and unconditionally.
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Amnesty International Calls Venezuela’s Break with Regional Human Rights Court “An Affront to Victims”
Amnesty International called the Venezuelan government’s decision to denounce the American Convention on Human Rights and therefore pull out of the Inter-American Court "an affront to the victims of human…
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Amnesty International Calls on Afghanistan to Defer Vote to Appoint Intelligence Director Accused of Torture
Amnesty International calls on Afghanistan’s Parliament to delay its vote to appoint a new national intelligence director until it carries out a thorough and transparent investigation into claims of his…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.