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Amnesty International Calls on Afghanistan to Defer Vote to Appoint Intelligence Director Accused of Torture
Amnesty International calls on Afghanistan’s Parliament to delay its vote to appoint a new national intelligence director until it carries out a thorough and transparent investigation into claims of his…
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Burmese Dissident Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to Join Amnesty International for a Historic Town Hall Meeting with Next Generation of Human Rights Activists
MSNBC host Alex Wagner will moderate a public conversation with the Nobel Laureate on her first US visit in two decades.
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Torture and Impunity in Turkey: The Case of Engin Çeber
The use of extra-judicial killings and torture has long haunted Turkish society and has largely gone unpunished. Help ensure justice for Engin Ceber.
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Is Reggie Clemons the Next Troy Davis? 10 Facts that Will Make Your Blood Boil
As If you didn't need more reasons why the US death penalty system is insane.
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Amnesty International Strongly Condemns “Calculated” Attacks on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi
A series of attacks by armed groups on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi left four killed, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stephens, and several others injured.
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Extraordinary Reexamination of Evidence in Highly Flawed Missouri Death Penalty Case Opens Possible “Path Forward to Truth and Justice”
More than two and a half years into its global campaign to spare Reggie Clemons’s life and expose the serious mistakes that led to his death sentence, Amnesty International said…
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Will Pennsylvania Execute A Victim Of Child Sexual Abuse?
Pennsylvania may execute Terrance Williams Oct 3; the jury never heard of his repeated sexual abuse as a child or that the man he killed was one of his abusers.
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Why Close Guantánamo? A Dead Man’s Poem Speaks
Adnan Latif died at Guantanamo after being held over 10 years without charge—despite a judge’s order that he be released. Is this American justice?
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Amnesty International Remembers the Victims of the September 11th Attacks
Those responsible for the September 11th attacks must be brought to justice in fair trials in federal court without recourse to the death penalty.
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Iraqi Authorities Must Conduct “Thorough, Impartial and Transparent” Investigation into Wave of Bomb Attacks and Shootings
A wave of bomb attacks and shootings across Iraq on Sunday reportedly killed at least 81 people, many of them civilians, and left scores more injured.
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Amnesty International USA Executive Director Suzanne Nossel Responds to Death of Adnan Latif, Guantanamo Detainee
Nossel's response to the death of Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, a detainee who has been held in Guantánamo without charge or trial for more than ten years.
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Turning 9/11 Grief into Hope
On the 11th anniversary of 9/11, we can draw hope from September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, people who lost family members on that terrible day.