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Minnesota Statewide Meeting!
Get ready for our Statewide Meeting! The details for our statewide meeting have been worked out. It will bring together AI activists from around the state, and some from Wisconsin,…
Press Release
Prison and Flogging Sentences For Seven Iranian Journalists and Activists ‘Disgraceful Injustice’
Responding to reports of a Revolutionary Court’s decision on September 7 to hand four journalists and three labor rights activists between six and 18 years in prison and, in one…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Activist Released on Bail, Still Facing Charges (Senegal: UA 109.19)
Senegalese activist Guy Marius Sagna was released on bail on 16 August, one month after he was first detained for posting comments on Facebook. Charged with ‘false alert of terrorism’’…
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Amnesty International – Banned Books Week 2019
Each year during Banned Books Week the American Library Association (ALA) calls attention to books that have been challenged in US Libraries. At the same time Amnesty International groups draw…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Sanaz Alahyari & Amirhossein Mohammadifar
IRAN - DETAINED - FACING CHARGES PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE Sanaz Alahyari and her husband, Amirhossein Mohammadifar, are staff members of Gam, an online magazine that reports on social justice issues,…
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Banned Books Week 2019
Labor & Migrant Worker Rights
DETAINED SINCE MARCH 2017 Wei Zhili and Ke Chengbing are editors of “New Generation” (xinshengdai), a website on monitoring and reporting the situation of rural migrant workers in China. New…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Labor Activists Held in Secret Detention (China: UA 37.19)
Wei Zhili (pictured below) and Ke Chengbing, both editors of labor rights news and advocacy website “New Generation” (xinshengdai), have been held in incommunicado detention since March 2019. Their detention…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activist Held Incommunicado for Months (China: UA 67.19)
Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held incommunicado since 8 January 2019. The editor-in-chief of iLabor.net / “New Generation” (Xinshengdai), an independent website covering workers’ rights stories,…
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Letter to the Dep of Commerce Hong Kong Protest Crowd Control Equipment (7.31.2019)
Please find the pdf version here: Letter Dep of Commerce Hong Kong Protest - US Crowd Control equipment (7.31.2019) July 31, 2019 Mr. Douglas R. Hassebrock. Acting Assistant Secretary…
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Amnesty International USA Executive Director Margaret Huang’s Testimony for Hearing on the Care of Unaccompanied Children in Custody
For PDF version, click here: 07.22.2019 AIUSA Testimony for Labor-H Hearing Chairwoman DeLauro, Ranking Member Cole, and Members of the Subcommittee: On behalf of Amnesty International USA and our two…
Press Release
Plans to Close Carrizo Springs Demonstrate Conditions That are Not in Children’s Best Interests
Responding to reports that the Department of Health and Human Services will be shutting down the facility in Carrizo Springs, Texas, Denise Bell, the Researcher for Refugee and Migrant Rights…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Jailed Journalists on Hunger Strike (Iran: UA 95.19)
Iranian journalists Sanaz Alahyari and Amirhossein Mohammadifar have been on hunger strike since 4 July. They are protesting their continued detention and the authorities’ ongoing crackdown on labor rights activists…