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Bangladesh: Returning Rohingya to Myanmar illegal and premature
Responding to an announcement by the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry that it will aim to repatriate all Rohingya refugees within two years, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southeast Asia…
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Israel must release teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi
Israeli authorities must release a 16-year-old Palestinian activist who could face up to 10 years in prison over an altercation with Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank last month,…
Event
Amnesty USA Free Home Security Lecture
I will hold a consultation on ensuring the safety of personal property in robbery. Throughout the consultation, I will talk about measures to prevent robbery, ways to improve protection against…
Event
Guantanamo, Lawlessness, and the Myth of American Exceptionalism
The Washington State Religious Campaign Against Torture (WSRCAT) AS PART OF THE NATIONAL WEEK OF ACTION TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO Presents JONATHAN HAFETZ “Guantanamo, Lawlessness, and the Myth of American Exceptionalism”…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: More Activists Detained for Liu Xiaobo Memorial (China: UA 7.18)
Independent writer Li Xuewen and Zhan Huidong (aka “Xiaozhang” or “Headmaster”), a former finance journalist and an online writer, have been detained due to their participation in the July 2017…
Press Release
USA: After 16 years, close Guantánamo’s detention center once and for all
On the 16th anniversary of the opening of the notorious detention facility at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International is again calling for the fair trial or…
Press Release
Activists Gather to Demand Closure of Guantánamo
On the 16th anniversary of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp, Amnesty International USA will be joining the Center for Constitutional Rights, Witness Against Torture, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture,…
Press Release
Myanmar: Military’s mass grave admission exposes extrajudicial executions of Rohingya
Following today’s admission by Myanmar’s military that security forces and villagers summarily killed 10 captured Rohingya people and buried them in a mass grave outside Inn Din, a village in…
Press Release
Iran: Investigate reports of protester deaths in custody
The Iranian authorities must immediately investigate reports that at least five people have died in custody following a crackdown on anti-establishment protests, and take all necessary steps to protect detainees…
Press Release
Saudi Arabia: Three years on, flogged blogger Raif Badawi must be released
Amnesty International launches a campaign today to mark the three year anniversary of the public flogging of Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi. He received the first 50 out of 1000…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Medical Practitioner Held Incommunidaco (China: UA 1.18)
Shafkat Abasi, a member of the Tatar ethnic minority, was detained by Chinese authorities on 13 March of 2017 and has not been heard from since. It is believed his…
Press Release
Myanmar: Reuters journalists must be released
The Myanmar authorities must immediately release two journalists from the Reuters news agency who have been arbitrarily detained for investigating military abuses in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, Amnesty International said.
