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Detainees Tortured to Crush Opposition to Coup in Myanmar
Authorities in Myanmar’s prisons and interrogation centres routinely subject people detained for resisting the 2021 military coup to torture and other cruel or degrading treatment, Amnesty International said today in…
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Urgent Action Update: JOURNALIST DENIED URGENT HEALTH CARE (Yemen: UA 27.16)
The health condition of Tawfiq al-Mansouri, one of the four Yemeni journalists detained since 2015 and sentenced to death in April 2020 before the Huthi-run Specialized Criminal Court in Sana’a,…
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NYPD Ordered to Handover Documents Detailing Surveillance of Black Lives Matter Protests Following Lawsuit
The New York Police Department (NYPD) has been ordered to disclose thousands of records of how the force procured and used facial recognition technology against Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters,…
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Urgent Action: ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO FOUR YEARS IN PRISON (Russian Federation: UA 71.22)
On July 15, 2022, a court in Krasnodar (southern Russia) sentenced Andrei Pivovarov to four years in prison for “carrying out activities of an undesirable organization”, under a law that…
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Urgent Action Update: STUDENT UNJUSTLY CONVICTED BY SPECIAL COURT (Egypt: UA 15.21)
On July 4, 2022, a Misdemeanours Emergency State Security Court (ESSC) convicted Egyptian researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy of spreading "false news" and sentenced him to three years imprisonment. His conviction…
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Taliban’s ‘Suffocating Crackdown’ Destroying Lives of Women and Girls in Afghanistan – New Report
The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.
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First Executions in Myanmar in Decades Mark Atrocious Escalation in State Repression
Responding to reports that Myanmar’s military authorities have carried out executions for the first time since the late 1980s, Amnesty International’s Regional Director Erwin van der Borght said:
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Urgent Action: RELEASE ARBITRARILY DETAINED JOURNALIST (Yemen: UA 69.22)
Journalist Younis Abdelsalam has been arbitrarily detained without charge by the Huthi de facto authorities for almost a year. He was falsely accused of communicating with foreign entities. Following his…
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RAC’22 Planning committee application
Planning committee application The Conference Programming Committee (CPC) is a group of AIUSA member leaders who will review the 2022 conference program session proposals and select the final sessions for…
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Immediately Halt Forced Eviction of More Than 1,000 West Bank Residents and Stop Demolitions of Bedouin Homes in the Negev/Naqab
The Israeli authorities must immediately halt the forcible eviction of more than 1,000 residents from Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, Amnesty International said today, following…
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Authorities Must Investigate Massacre of Ethnic Amhara in Tole
The Ethiopian authorities must urgently launch an impartial investigation into the summary killing of over 400 Amhara residents of Tole Kebele in Oromia region on June 18, Amnesty International said…
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2022 Regional Activism Conference
Amnesty International USA is announce our first ever fully hybrid conference. Dates: October 21st – 23rd theme: Resilient Activism AIUSA’s Regional Activism Conference will provide a space for people to…
