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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – September 2022 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured U.S. Immigration International Updates september 2022 NEWSLETTER FEATURED: security with human rights A relative weeps over the casket of Farzad, a…
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Activist Training Sessions
Activist Training sessions Activist training sessions are designed by youth, for youth. From recruitment to running meetings, club fair to creative activism, and so much more, these sessions run by…
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Urgent Action: KURDISH DISSIDENT FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED (Iran: UA 81.22)
Iran’s prosecution authorities and security and intelligence agents in West Azerbaijan Province have forcibly disappeared an Iranian Kurdish dissident, Edris Feqhi, since July 2021. He remains at risk of torture…
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AIUSA Statement Ahead of the Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks
Ahead of the 21st anniversary of the attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, Daphne Eviatar, the director of the Security With Human Rights program at Amnesty International…
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‘Filtration’ of Ukrainian Civilians a ‘Shocking Violation’ of People Forced to Flee War
Responding to the news that the UN has verified that Russian soldiers have subjected Ukrainian civilians to a rights-abusing process known as “filtration,” a practice independently verified by Amnesty International…
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Urgent Action: MAN WITH MENTAL DISABILITY FACING EXECUTION (USA: UA 78.22)
Benjamin Cole, aged 57, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on October 20, 2022. He was sentenced to death in December 2004 for killing his nine-month-old daughter in December…
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Long-Delayed UN Report Must Spur Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity in Xinjiang
Responding to the long-awaited release of the UN Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights’ report on serious human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès…
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Fleeing Afghans Unlawfully Returned After Coming Under Fire at Iranian and Turkish Borders
Iranian and Turkish security forces have repeatedly pushed back Afghans who attempt to cross their borders to reach safety, including by unlawfully opening fire on men, women and children, Amnesty…
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Russian Sham Trials of Ukrainian Prisoners of War in Mariupol ‘Illegal and Unacceptable’
Any moves by Russian-backed armed groups to try Ukrainian prisoners of war in a so-called ‘international tribunal’ in Mariupol are illegal and abusive, and a further act of cruelty against…
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Urgent Action: INTENSIFIED ASSAULT ON IRAN’S BAHA’I MINORITY (Iran: UA 76.22)
Iran’s persecuted Baha’i minority are suffering escalated attacks on their human rights. Since July 31, 2022, the authorities have raided dozens of Baha’i houses, detained at least 30 people, and…
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Urgent Action: CRIMEAN HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS DISBARRED (Russian Federation/Ukraine: UA 75.22)
On July 15, 2022, lawyers Lilya Gemedzhi, Rustem Kyamilev and Nazim Sheikhmambetov were disbarred in retaliation for their human rights work, defending Crimean Tatar activists against politically motivated charges in…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE ACTIVIST JAILED FOR 34 YEARS FOR TWEETS (Saudi Arabia: UA 74.22)
On August 9, 2022, the Specialized Criminal Court in the Saudi capital, Riyadh sentenced, after a grossly unfair trial, Salma al-Shehab, a Saudi activist and academic from Saudi Arabia’s Shi’a…