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Four days to more deportations from Europe to Iraq
On Wednesday 60 Iraqis were forcibly returned to Baghdad from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. Next Wednesday more asylum seekers will be flown back to a city…
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US Must not Turn Blind Eye to Human Rights Crisis in Northwest Pakistan
It is civilians who suffer most from the fighting between the Taleban and Pakistani government forces in northwest Pakistan. Many of these residents live in a human rights free zone…
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Tissa's pardon – we're still waiting
On May 4, I wrote on this site about the Sri Lankan government's announced pardon of the journalist J.S. Tissainayagam (often referred to as "Tissa"), who'd been unjustly convicted and…
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A Birthday in Evin Prison – an opportunity to remember Iran's prisoners
To coincide with the 12 June anniversary of the disputed election last year in Iran, Amnesty International has prepared a campaign to highlight the situation of political prisoners, many of…
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European governments forcibly return asylum seekers to Iraq
Today 60 Iraqis were forcibly removed from the United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway and the Netherlands. They had applied for asylum and were denied. Ten Iraqis who were in the UK,…
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Were US missile and cluster munitions used in a fatal attack in Yemen?
Based on the evidence provided by these photographs, the US government must disclose what role it played in the al-Ma'jalah attack, and all governments involved must show what steps they…
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I Am Neda
By Mikel Jollett and Nazanin Boniadi for The Neda Project [caption id="attachment_9998" align="alignleft" width="250" caption="Actress Nazanin Boniadi and The Airborne Toxic Event's Mikel Jollett"][/caption] The tragic death of Neda Agha-Soltan…
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Torture Awareness Month
Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last Wednesday former President George W. Bush appeared to take personal responsibility for the decision to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh…
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People can change. Will Texas?
That’s the title of Amnesty International’s short report on David Lee Powell, a man who is scheduled to be executed in Texas on June 15 despite demonstrating great remorse and…
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Tiananmen Square: 21 Years Later Still No Justice or Freedom
Twenty-one years after the massacre in and around Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 3rd and 4th, 1989 - which killed scores of students and peaceful protesters - justice still…
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Still more for us to do in Chad
An Amnesty research team is visiting Chad for the fourth time since 2006. This time the focus of inquiry will be on violence against women, general issues of insecurity, and…
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Israeli Killings of Gaza Ship Activists Must Be Investigated
UPDATE: Amnesty International interim Secretary General Claudio Cordone called for an international inquiry into the deaths caused by the raid on the aid flotilla in international waters outside Gaza today.…