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What's A Uighur?
Corrected 2/4/10 This question was part of the opening remarks in a talk given several years ago by one of the attorneys representing the Uighurs at Guantanamo. We didn't know…
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Peru Update: Steps Taken Toward Dialogue After Clashes
International pressure on the Peruvian authorities has brought some progress for Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon. An Amnesty International delegation will visit the country to assess the situation. Since the…
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Everything Happens Twice in Guinea-Bissau
So far this year there have been two rounds of assassinations in Guinea-Bissau. Now there will be two rounds of elections. The assassination in March of President Vieira forced elections to…
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Ahmedinejad Blames West for Election Unrest
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad gave a speech on state television on Tuesday insisting it due to the meddling of Western nations that violence broke out following the June 12th presidential…
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Defending Our Right to Protest: Amnesty International and the ACLU Settle Lawsuit with City of Miami
Amnesty International and the ACLU recently settled a lawsuit that defended our members' right to peacefully protest. Miami officials admitted that during the 2003 Free Trade Area of the Americas…
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Double Tragedies
[caption id="attachment_2834" align="alignleft" width="475" caption="Letter from Kelsey Patterson to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (© Private)"][/caption] The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Murder Victims’ Families for Human…
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Zimbabwe: A Sturdy Constitution or Just Indigestion?
Zimbabwe recently began to hold public hearings in the constitutional reform process mandated by the Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed last September. According to the timeline laid out in the agreement…
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If You Can't Quit Them, Then Regulate Military Contractors
By Lillian Tan, Corporate Action Network Intern Their operations are vast and war zone contractors are likely here to stay, as Suzanne Simons writes in her CNN International article. Her…
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The Wanton Destruction of Gaza
A new Amnesty International report about the recent conflict in Gaza concludes that Israel wantonly destroyed civilian infrastructure in Gaza, which could not be justified on grounds of "military necessity".…
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Obama Embracing Bush Legacy
The Obama administration is reportedly close to finalizing the outlines of a new preventative detention regime likely to be crafted along the lines proposed by Matthew Waxman in a paper…
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Iranian Journalists Detained in Unknown Location since June
UPDATE: 22 OF 25 IRANIAN NEWSPAPER STAFFERS FREED The Committee to Protest Journalists published a statement today that said 22 of the 25 journalists that worked on the staff of…
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Crisis in Honduras…Obama and Chavez agree?
Unrest in Honduras flared today as protesters spared with police over the recent exile of President Manuel Zelaya. Zelaya was ousted over the weekend by the Honduran military after disagreements…