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Don’t Let California Jumpstart Executions
[caption id="attachment_43661" align="alignleft" width="594"] David McNew/Getty Images[/caption] Officials at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) are doing everything they can to jumpstart executions after over a decade without them—and with the…
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Torture Is Not the Answer
[caption id="attachment_70676" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Still from 'Waiting For The Guards ' shows simulated torture by the CIA[/caption] Too little, and much too late. CIA Director John Brennan this week declared…
Urgent Action
Thailand: Release Watana Muangsook (UA 90/16)
A prisoner of conscience is being held in military custody in Thailand, with no access to lawyers or family.
Urgent Action
Sudan: Release the Five Student Activists (UA 89/16)
Five student activists from the University of Khartoum in Sudan have been detained without charge in Khartoum North since 13 and 14 April after being arrested by the National…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Prisoner In Solitary Confinement On Hunger Strike (Egypt: UA 91/16)
Ahmed Amin Ghazali Amin has been on hunger strike since 9 March, in protest against his solitary confinement, which he has been held in since May 2016, when he…
Press Release
FIFA President Gianni Infantino must end silence on Qatar human rights abuses
Gianni Infantino must use his meetings with Qatari officials to press for reform of laws that leave migrant workers at risk of exploitation and abuse, sometimes even forced labor, said…
Press Release
Zimbabwe: Deplorable attack on brother of missing activist must be urgently investigated Â
The brutal assault by Zimbabwe's state security agents on the brother of the abducted pro-democracy activist Itai Dzamara must be urgently and impartially investigated and those responsible brought to justice,…
Press Release
Gambia: Investigate Death in Custody, Free Protesters
The suspicious death in custody of opposition political leader Solo Sandeng and the arrest of his party leader, Ousainu Darboe, and other party members in recent days underscore the repressive…
Press Release
Republic of Congo: Air strikes hit residential areas including schools
Air strikes on residential areas in the south eastern Pool region of Congo that have reportedly resulted in deaths, casualties and the destruction of properties, including churches, schools and medical…
Press Release
Amnesty International Releases New Report on Refugee Crisis, Pushes Obama to Do More
With all eyes focused on the implementation of the recently agreed EU-Turkey deal, the plight of more than 46,000 refugees and migrants stuck in squalid conditions across mainland Greece, is…
Update
Trapped in Europe’s New Refugee Camp: Greece
Among the olive groves on some of Greece’s beautiful islands there are barbed wire fences. At least 6,000 asylum-seekers have been locked up here since a new European Union (EU)…
Press Release
Gambia: Death in detention of key political activist
Authorities in Gambia must immediately investigate the death in detention of a well-known political activist and release all other peaceful protestors who have been detained, Amnesty International said today.