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Iran: Quash the Conviction of Yousef Kakehmani (UA 75/16)
Iranian Kurdish farmer Yousef Kakehmami, already serving nine years in prison after two unfair trials, has been sentenced to a further five years in prison after writing a letter…
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South Sudan: Release Professor Leonzio Angole Onek (UA 64/16)
Prof. Leonzio Angole Onek was arrested on 7 December 2015 in Juba, South Sudan and taken to the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in the Jebel neighbourhood. He has…
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The Road to the AGM
March 24, 2016 - AGM Road Trip Playlist 1 The road to Amnesty International USA’s Annual General Meeting and Human Rights Conference technically began in April of 2015, when the AIUSA…
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Azerbaijan releases human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev
The Azerbaijani authorities today released prominent human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev in what Amnesty International billed an overdue step towards righting the injustice against him and all remaining prisoners of…
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Saudi Arabia: Journalist sentenced to five years in prison for tweets latest victim of ruthless crackdown Â
The sentencing of journalist Alaa Brinji to five years in prison, an eight-year travel ban and a fine of 50,000 Saudi Arabian riyals (about US$ 13,300) for a series of…
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China: Prominent blogger’s family detained over letter lambasting President Xi
The Chinese authorities must call off their manhunt against those it believes are behind the publication of a letter calling on President Xi Jinping to resign, Amnesty International said, after…
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Teen who challenged torture in Egypt released after more than two years
 The release on bail of Mahmoud Hussein in the early hours of this morning offers a faint glimmer of hope for Egypt’s deeply flawed justice system, said Amnesty International.Â
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Japan: Two hanged as chilling executions continueÂ
The Japanese authorities’ reprehensible execution of two people today, continues to place the country on the wrong side of history, Amnesty International said. Â
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Execution of three men in Malaysia
After Malaysia hanged three men for murder on Friday morning local time, Amnesty International’s Campaigns Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific Josef Benedict said:
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Ukraine: Murder of lawyer a chilling blow to justice
The hideous murder of lawyer Yuri Grabovski, whose body was found in central Ukraine bearing gunshot wounds, is a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by lawyers and activists perceived…
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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Karadžić found guilty of Srebrenica genocide, but ruling leaves life unchanged for many survivors
 Today’s guilty verdict handed down by a UN Court in The Hague against former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadžić for genocide and other crimes under international law marks a major…
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Israel/OPT: Suspected extrajudicial execution of Palestinian caught on video
An Israeli soldier has been filmed shooting dead a Palestinian man in Hebron as he lay wounded on the ground following his alleged role in a knife attack earlier today. …