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Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Three Journalists Released After Charges Dropped (Myanmar: UA 159.17)
Former prisoners of conscience Lawi Weng, Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung have had the charge against them dropped following an announcement by the Myanmar Army. The three journalists were…
Press Release
Trump Callous Approach to Refugees Will Cost Lives
CONTACT: Mandy Simon, [email protected] NEW YORK – Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s remarks on refugees today at the United Nations General Assembly, Amnesty International USA called on the U.S. to do more,…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Offices Of Human Rights Defenders Attacked (Indonesia: UA 215.17)
Staff of the Indonesian and Jakarta Legal Institutes were threatened by violent ‘anti-communist’ protesters outside their offices. The organizations have since closed due to concerns for the safety of their…
Press Release
Myanmar: Aung San Suu Kyi burying her head in the sand about Rakhine horrors
Reacting to today’s speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s State Counsellor and de facto leader, on the crisis in Rakhine State, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southeast…
Event
Amnesty Denver: Fighting Homelessness
Join us to hear about and discuss issues affecting Denver area people experiencing homelessness. We will have guest speakers from the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Denver Homeless Out Loud,…
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Press Release
UN: Myanmar Rohingya exodus exposes abject failure of world leaders to deliver solution to refugee crisis
As almost 400,000 refugees flee ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, world leaders meeting at the UN General Assembly should hang their heads in shame that they have not only failed to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Trade Unionist In Need Of Medical Care (Iran: UA 306.13)
Iranian trade unionist Reza Shahabi was forced to return to prison on 9 August, prompting him to go on hunger strike in protest. After over 40 days on hunger strike,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Juvenile Offender At Risk Of Imminent Execution (Saudi Arabia: UA 209.16)
An appeal court has upheld the death sentence against Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, a Shi’a man who was convicted of offences committed when he was 16 years old. The court appears to…
Press Release
St. Louis Police Urged to Exercise Restraint and Protect Peaceful Protesters
Following the verdict in the trial of St. Louis Police Officer Jason Stockley in the death of Anthony Lamar Smith, Amnesty International USA urged police to exercise restraint regarding those…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Detained Opposition Activist Denied Lawyer Visits (Sudan: UA 213.17)
Nabil Mohamed El-Niwari, a Sudanese political activist and member of the opposition party Sudan Congress, was arrested by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Khartoum on 5…
Press Release
Ed Sheeran, Esperanza Spalding, and More Join Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds for Give a Home
On September 20, Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds will join forces to produce Give a Home, a huge global refugee concert series that will consist of 300 shows in 60…
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Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Religious Minority Leader Released But Still At Risk (Algeria: UA 205.17)
On 13 September the Court of First Instance in Ain Tedles, Algeria convicted and sentenced President of the Ahmadiyya religious community, Mohamed Fali to a 6 month suspended prison term…