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Urgent Action Victory! Child Released From Administrative Detention (Israel/OPT: UA 101/16)
Abed al-Rahman Awad Kmail was released by the Israeli authorities from administrative detention on 2 October after nearly eight months in detention in Megiddo prison inside Israel. He had…
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Colombia: Guarantee Safety of Afro-descendant Leaders (UA 93/16)
Several Afro-descendant leaders from Cauca Department have been threatened as they continue their campaign in favour of their territorial rights and against illegal mining. 1) Please write immediately…
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Stop Action! – Austria: Restrictive Asylum Law Signed (UA 103/16)
On 20 May the outgoing federal president Heinz Fischer signed the amendments to Austria’s asylum law introducing, among other changes, “special measures for the maintenance of public order and…
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U.S. Citizen’s Hard Labor Sentence in North Korea Shrouded in Secrecy
The government of North Korea must immediately disclose all details in the court case of U.S. citizen Kim Dong-chul, who was sentenced to 10 years’ hard labor for “spying,” in…
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Australia: Refugee death highlights fatal flaws in offshore processing
The death of another refugee in an Australian-run detention center on Nauru demonstrates the fatal flaws of a system that must be brought to an end, Amnesty International said today.
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Lesotho court ruling to allow ongoing detention of soldiers, raising further questions about fair trial
A court ruling that allows the Lesotho Defense Force (LDF) to continue to keep 16 soldiers detained raises further serious concerns about their ability to have a fair trial, Amnesty…
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World Press Freedom Day: Journalists under attack just for doing their job
On World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Amnesty International is shining a light on nine cases of journalists from across the globe who have been harassed, threatened, locked up…
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Making for a Just World
In Canvases of Courage, a documentary about artists working to advance global human rights, Jérôme Lagarrigue 96 IL (above) speaks about how his own experience surviving a hate crime in…
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Help Release Guo Feixiong (China: UA 99/16)
Imprisoned Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) ended his hunger strike on 18 August after being moved to another prison and…
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Kunduz Bombing Needs Independent Investigation
According to media reports, Department of Defense will be releasing public report on its investigation into the U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan which killed…
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CIA Torture Just Got One Step Closer to Facing Accountability
In an unprecedented victory for torture accountability, the U.S. Justice Department decided not to block a private lawsuit from going forward, and to actually allow survivors and victims of CIA…
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Good News! – Human Rights Defender Malek Adly Released (Egypt: UA 98/16)
On 28 August human rights defender Malek Adly was released from a police station in Shubra al-Khaimah, three days after a court ordered his release and rejected an appeal…