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Urgent Action: Tortured Kurdish Man at Risk of Execution (Iran: UA 146.20)
Iranian Kurdish prisoner Heidar Ghorbani, 47, is at risk of execution for “armed rebellion against the state” (baghi), despite serious fair trial violations and the trial court confirming that he…
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Urgent Action: Detained Journalist Accused of Terrorism (Egypt: UA 145.20)
On 30 August 2020, unlawfully detained journalist and human rights defender, Esraa Abdelfattah, was brought in front of the Supreme State Security Prosecution (SSSP) for questioning on accusations of "joining…
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Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must participate in decisions affecting their lives
Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh must be given the right to participate in decisions affecting their lives and speak for themselves, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing. The briefing,…
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Jessica Evans
Jessica Evans has been a long-time member and supporter of AIUSA, previously serving as Area Coordinator for Kentucky and a member of the Nominating Committee. A Memphis, TN native, Jessica…
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Amnesty International USA Memo to Congress on Foreign Policy Human Rights Priorities For Next 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…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – September 2020 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL september 2020 NEWSLETTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Featured Issue International Updates Domestic Updates COVID-19 and Human Rights Looking to 2021 Welcome New Staff FEATURED ISSUE…
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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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#FreeBillieAllen, The Art of Innocence
The resumption of executions at the Federal level in the United States puts many death row inmates at risk of death, particularly at the accelerated pace at which they are…
Urgent Action
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…
Press Release
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…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Highest Court Upholds Death Sentences (Bahrain: UA 1.15)
On 13 July 2020, the Court of Cassation in Bahrain reaffirmed the death sentences of Mohamed Ramadhan and Hussain Moosa, despite evidence that the men were tortured during their interrogations.…