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Amnesty International calls for the release of Toffiq al-Bihani and the closure of Guantanamo Bay
As arguments begin in the case of Toffiq al-Bihani and ten others seeking release from arbitrary detention in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International reiterated its call for their release and the…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Detained Religious Teacher Faces Death Penalty (Sudan: UA 70.18)
Matar Younis Ali Hussein, a religious teacher who has a visual disability, has been formally charged with three offences under the 1991 Penal Code. Two of the offences put him…
Press Release
Nicaragua: State repression has reached deplorable levels
The repressive actions of the Nicaraguan government have reached deplorable levels, Amnesty International said today, after one of the bloodiest weekends since the repression of protests began almost three months…
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Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Liu Xia Free, On Her Way to Berlin (China: UA 270.17)
Liu Xia was finally allowed to leave China for Germany on 10 July 2018, after almost eight years of illegal house arrest. Her release came three days before the first…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Liu Xia Freed, On Her Way to Berlin (China: UA 270.17)
Liu Xia was finally allowed to leave China for Germany on 10 July 2018, after almost eight years of illegal house arrest. Her release came three days before the first…
Press Release
China: Liu Xia free and on way to Germany
Responding to reports that artist Liu Xia, widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, has left China and is traveling to Germany, Patrick Poon, China Researcher at Amnesty International, commented: “It…
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Report
Zimbabwe: Elections offer a chance to break with decades of gross human rights violations
Zimbabwe's election at the end of the month will take place in the context of decades of politically motivated gross human rights violations, including mass killings, the forced disappearance of…
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Press Release
Colombia: Killings of human rights defenders continue under a cloak of impunity and the silent complicity of the state
Colombia faces a grave human rights crisis as a result of repeated targeted killings of human rights defenders, while the authorities look on unperturbed, Amnesty International said today.
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Press Release
Myanmar: Charging of Reuters journalists a black day for press freedom
Responding to today’s decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, with breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director…
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Press Release
Salil Shetty, Amnesty International’s eighth Secretary General, to join Harvard Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as Senior Fellow in 2018-19
Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) announced today that Salil Shetty, the outgoing Secretary General of Amnesty International, will join the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy as a Senior Fellow for…
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Press Release
Turkey: Conviction of six Zaman journalists “sends further shock through an already devastated media landscape”
Following the sentencing of six former columnists and editors of the shuttered Zaman newspaper to jail terms of between eight-and-a-half and ten-and-a-half years, and the acquittal of five others, Fotis…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Health Concerns for Detained Sudanese Activist (Sudan: UA 127.18)
The family of Sudanese activist Husham Ali Mohamed Ali has received disturbing information that he has been injured while in detention. The Sudanese National Intelligence Service (NISS) arrested him upon…