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Domestic Human Rights Policies Biden-Harris Administration Must Address in Early 2021
On February 18, 2021, Amnesty International USA wrote to the Biden-Harris Administration to share the organization's recommendations for domestic human rights policies the U.S. government should advance in early 2021.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Two Baluchi Prisoners at Risk of Execution (Iran: UA 22.21)
Death row prisoners from Iran’s Baluchi ethnic minority, Hamed Rigi and Mehran Naru’i, are at risk of execution. They have been subjected to serious human rights violations including enforced disappearance…
Press Release
President Biden Must Close Guantánamo Bay Detention Center, End Twenty Years of Human Rights Abuses
President Biden must commit to finishing what former President Obama failed to do: putting an end to this human rights atrocity by immediately transferring detainees not charged with crimes to…
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Coalition Letter to President Biden
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender Denied Civilian Court Trial (Pakistan: UA 159.19)
On 28 January 2021, the Peshawar High Court denied Idris Khattak’s appeal to be tried in a civilian court and confirmed that the hearing will take place in a military…
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Fresh Evidence of Police Misuse of Tear Gas Leading to Protesters’ Deaths and Injuries – Updated Investigative Website
Amnesty International today published new evidence of the misuse of tear gas by security forces in several countries in the second half of 2020, including during protests around the election…
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Domestic Human Rights Legislation to Advance in Congress in Early 2021
On January 27, 2021, Amnesty International USA wrote to Members of Congress outlining the organization's recommendations for domestic legislation the Judiciary Committee should advance in early 2021. Click here to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Retrial Ordered for Singer on Death Row (Nigeria: UA 137.20)
On 21 January, an Appeal Panel ordered the case of 22-year-old Yahaya Sharif-Aminu be retried by a different judge on the basis that he was not represented by a legal…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Execution Risk for Iranian-Swedish Academic (Iran: UA 38.17)
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s Evin prison since 24 November 2020, when he learned that his death sentence for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) was…
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Amnesty International USA’s 2021 Annual General Meeting
Amnesty International USA is excited to be hosting the 2021 Virtual Annual General Meeting. The theme is Together for Our Future – 60 years of uniting action-takers and change-makers. In…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender Detained in New Case (Egypt: UA 104.19)
On 2 January 2021, Ibrahim Ezz el-Din appeared before the Supreme State Security Prosecution for investigations into a new case (No. 1018/2020) over baseless charges of "belonging to a terrorist…
Press Release
Federal Executions in the United States Buckle Global Progress on Abolition
Ahead of the first of three federal executions scheduled to take place in 2021, with Lisa Montgomery facing execution on January 12, 2020, which would make her the first woman…
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