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Remain in Mexico Plan Must Not Stand

Reacting to news that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has halted the district court’s injunction of the Remain in Mexico plan, Charanya Krishnaswami, advocacy director for the Americas at…

May 7, 2019

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Myanmar: Genuine press freedom must follow release of Reuters journalists

Responding to news of the amnesty and release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, Nicholas Bequelin, Amnesty International’s East and Southeast Asia Director said the following.

May 7, 2019
TOPSHOT - Reuters journalists Wa Lone (L) and Kyaw Soe Oo gesture as they walk to Insein prison gate after being freed in a presidential amnesty in Yangon on May 7, 2019. - Two Reuters journalists who had been jailed for their reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar walked out of prison on May 7, freed in a presidential amnesty after a global campaign for their release. (Photo by ANN WANG / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read ANN WANG/AFP/Getty Images)

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Brunei Darussalam: Sultan’s speech a first step to repealing ‘heinous’ laws

Responding to news that the Brunei authorities have announced they will continue to refrain from implementing the death sentence, including under the newly enacted Syariah Penal Code Order, and would…

May 6, 2019
390763 04: A pin adorns the shirt of a demonstrator at an anti-death penalty protest on the eve of the second federal execution in nearly four decades June 18,2001 in Santa Ana, CA. Juan Garza, who was sentenced to death by a judge who believes that the death penalty is morally wrong, is scheduled to die a week after the killing of Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh in Terra Haut, ID. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)