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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…
Press Release
New Report Details Ongoing Human Rights Violations at Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility
Amnesty International has released a new report highlighting ongoing and historic human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, as detentions there enter their 20th year and as a new President…
Report
New Report Details Ongoing Human Rights Violations at Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility
Amnesty International has released a new report highlighting ongoing and historic human rights violations at the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, as detentions there enter their 20th year and as a new President…
Campaign
Now is the Time to Finally Close Guantánamo
The military prison at Guantánamo Bay represents grave violations of human rights by the U.S. government. As it enters its 22nd year of existence as a center for indefinite detention,…
Update
Top International Human Rights Priorities for Congress in 2021
On January 7, 2021, Amnesty International USA addressed a letter to Members of Congress outlining the organization's top international human rights priorities for Congress in 2021. Click here to read…
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…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Covid-19 Journalist Sentenced to Four Years for Exposing Truth (China: UA 170.20)
The Pudong New District People’s Court sentenced citizen journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison on 28 December 2020. The charge against her of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Prisoner of Conscience on Hunger Strike (Guinea: UA 154.20)
Pro-democracy activist and mobilization coordinator for National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), Oumar Sylla (alias Foniké Mengué) has been on hunger strike since 25 December 2020, in…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Uyghur Again Detained Incommunicado (China: UA 86.20)
Mahira Yakub was sent back to Yining Detention Center in China’s Xinjiang region in late November 2020 and is still without access to her family and a lawyer of her…
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…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Guinean Pro-Democracy Activist Is Free (Guinea: UA 83.20)
Saïkou Yaya Diallo, the legal coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC), was freed from Conakry prison on 11 December 2020 after having served seven…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Opposition Members Released (Togo: UA 171.20)
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020 and are now under judicial supervision. At the end of November 2020, they…