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Lim Taehoon has been released!
Lim Taehoon (28), a South Korean gay rights activist was arrested on February 26, 2004 for refusing to serve mandatory...
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Bangladeshi journalist appreciates AI’s support.
On March 8, 2005, Bangladeshi journalist Sumi Khan visited AI's United Kingdom section to talk about her experiences as a...
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“Amnesty International has helped me so many times.”
Hassan Bility, a journalist with The Analyst newspaper in Liberia, was held incommunicado and without charge or trial...
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“I knew I was not alone”
Christine Anyanwu, publisher of the Sunday Magazine in Nigeria was detained without charge apparently for publishing...
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Illinois passes anti-discrimination Law
On January 11, 2005, Illinois became the 15th US state to amend its state human rights statute to bar discrimination on the...
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Supreme Court Outlaws Juvenile Executions
With its March 1st decision in Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court removed the U.S. from the list of nations that...
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Turkish human rights defender thanks activists for effective work
Sevim Yetkiner, chair of the Mus branch of the Human Rights Association was released from Erzurum prison in eastern Turkey...
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The authorities now recognize the problem.
In May 2000, Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action on behalf of Valdenia Aparecida Paulino, a Brazilian lawyer who...
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The Threat of an Urgent Action
This message is from a member of the Urgent Action Team at Amnesty's International Secretariat in London: "I wanted to...
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Letters Help Prevent Amputation of 16 Year Old
The sentence of cross amputation passed on 16-year-old Mohamed Hassan Hamdan, member of the Ja'afra ethnic group (an Arab...
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Five Political Leaders in Gabon Thank AI Members
Hughes Bessacque, Brice Obanda, Gervais Amogo, Abdul Allogo Mintsa, and Pascal Nkoulou, five members of the Gabonese...
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Algerian Medical Doctor is Acquitted and Released
Doctor and human rights defender Salaheddine Sidhoum was acquitted on October 16, 2003, in a retrial of his earlier...