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Hungary: container camp bill is flagrant violation of international law
Responding to the Hungarian Parliament’s adoption of a set of amendments allowing for the automatic detention of all asylum seekers while their applications are processed, Gauri Van Gulik, Amnesty International’s…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Salvadoran Asylum Seeker Released (USA: UA 54/17)
Salvadoran woman Sara Beltran Hernandez has been granted bond and released from detention. She had been held in a Texas detention centre for 15 months, despite having a claim to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender’s Prison Sentence Upheld (Saudi Arabia: UA 86/16)
The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh has upheld Saudi Arabian human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s 11-year prison sentence. It is feared that he could be detained at any time to…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Salvadoran Asylum Seeker Released (USA: UA 54.17)
Salvadoran woman Sara Beltran Hernandez has been granted bond and released from detention. She had been held in a Texas detention centre for 15 months, despite having a claim to…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Woman In Urgent Need Of Surgery Released (Turkey: UA 21/17)
Sibel Çapraz was conditionally released from prison on 28 February. She had been in pre-trial detention for almost one year and was in need of medical treatment and an urgent…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Endorses National Women’s Strike, Set for March 8
Amnesty International USA today announced that it is endorsing and supporting “A Day Without A Woman,” a day of strike taking place on March 8 to call for justice and…
Press Release
Egypt: Government must protect Coptic Christians targeted in string of deadly attacks in North Sinai
The Egyptian authorities must offer urgent protection to Coptic Christians in North Sinai and provide essential services and accommodation to hundreds who were forced to flee their homes, after seven…
Press Release
Congress Must Reject Trump’s Insistence on Writing Bigotry into Policy
Following President Trump’s remarks before a joint session of Congress this evening, Amnesty International USA executive director Margaret Huang issued the following statement:
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Yemen: Huthi forces recruiting child soldiers for front-line combat
New evidence has emerged of how the Huthi armed group is actively recruiting boys as young as 15 to fight as child soldiers on the front lines of the conflict…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Independent Journalist And His Mother Released (Turkmenistan: UA 279/16)
On 15 February independent Turkmenistani journalist Khudayberdy Allashov and his mother, Kurbantach Arazmedova, were given three-year conditional sentences after being found guilty of possessing chewing tobacco. They were released form…
Report
The State of the World’s Human Rights
Politicians wielding a toxic, dehumanizing “us vs them” rhetoric are creating a more divided and dangerous world, warned Amnesty International today as it launched its annual assessment of human rights…
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Press Release
Amnesty International Pleas to Not Repeat History on 75th Anniversary of Japanese American Mass Imprisonments
Seventy-five years ago this weekend, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, paving the way for the incarceration of 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in camps during World War II, the…