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Urgent Action Victory! Incommunicado Detainee Released (Venezuela: UA 81.20)
Maury Carrero, detained arbitrarily in April 2020 by officers of the Directorate for Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) in Caracas, was unconditionally released on 2 September as part of a group of…
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Detainees in Iran flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown
Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance,…
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Amnesty International Memo to Congress on Foreign Policy Human Rights Priorities for Next for Congress
August 24, 2020 Dear Representative: On behalf of Amnesty International USA, I am writing to share our top foreign policy and human rights policy recommendations. The list of issues that…
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Heavy weaponry used in Libya to disperse peaceful protesters demanding economic rights
At least six peaceful protesters were abducted and several others were wounded after armed men fired live ammunition including from heavy machine-guns to disperse a demonstration in Tripoli on August…
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Urgent Action: Justice for Gender-Based Violence Survivor (Mozambique: UA 130.20)
On 12 June, the 2nd Criminal Appeal Section of the Judicial Court of Maputo’s City overturned the decision that found the aggressor of Women Human Rights Defender, Josina Machel, guilty…
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Amnesty International Statement for Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee Hearing on “Oversight of DHS Personnel Deployments to Recent Protests”
For PDF version, click here. August 5, 2020 Senator Ron Johnson, Chair Senator Gary Peters, Ranking Member Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs RE: Amnesty International…
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Urgent Action: Tortured Iranian Kurd at Risk of Execution (Iran: UA 124.20)
Arsalan Khodkam, from Iran’s Kurdish minority, is at risk of execution in West Azerbaijan province. He was sentenced to death for “spying” after a grossly unfair trial that lasted about…
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Amnesty International Statement for Congressional Hearing on “Homeland Insecurity: How DHS Actions Endanger Our Democracy”
For PDF version, click here. July 30, 2020 Congressman Bennie Thompson, Chair Congressman Mike Rogers, Ranking Member House Committee on Homeland Security RE: Amnesty International Statement for Hearing…
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Yezidi child survivors of ‘Islamic State’ facing unprecedented health crisis
Almost 2,000 Yezidi children who have returned to their families after being held captive by the armed group calling itself Islamic State (IS) are facing a physical and mental health…
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Two Kurds in Iran executed amid increasing use of death penalty as weapon of repression
There has been an alarming escalation in use of the death penalty against protesters, dissidents and members of minority groups in Iran, Amnesty International said today, following the executions on…
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The United States is Violating the Human Rights of Black People by Failing to Restrict Use of Deadly Force by Police
MAJORITY LEADER MCCONNELL & THE SENATE MUST PASS THE GEORGE FLOYD JUSTICE IN POLICING ACT Following the killing of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, by police officer Darren Wilson…
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AIUSA letter to Assistant Secretary of State Tibor Nagy Urging Trump administration to Press Nigeria to protect children in Northeast Nigeria from abuses driven by Boko Haram insurgency and government’s counter insurgency
The Honorable Tibor Nagy Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of African Affairs U.S. Department of State C and 22nd Street Washington DC 20520 June 9, 2020 Dear Assistant Secretary Nagy,…