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Beating Justice: How Fiji’s Security Forces Get Away with Torture
Under the military’s dominance, the Pacific island nation of Fiji has seen an ingrained culture of torture take root among its security forces, a new Amnesty International report says today.
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Detained journalist beaten for protest in prison in India
Authorities must independently investigate the beating of eight prisoners, including journalist Santosh Yadav, in the Jagdalpur central jail, Amnesty International India said today.Â
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US must come clean about civilian deaths caused by coalition air strikes in Syria
U.S.-led coalition forces carrying out air strikes in Syria must conduct thorough investigations into reports of civilian casualties from its operations and disclose their findings, said Amnesty International. Eleven coalition…
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Australian Refugee Processing Centers Aren’t ‘Border Control’ — They’re Torture
Australia is holding refugees and asylum seekers in torture-like conditions in Nauru
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Ilham Tohti: 2016 Martin Ennals Award Laureate for Human Rights Defenders
The Martin Ennals Foundation has today announced Ilham Tohti as the 2016 Laureate Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. Ilham Tohti was selected by a jury of 10 global human…
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Australia: Reforms to justice system essential to protect the rights of Indigenous youth
Major reforms must be undertaken by the authorities in the Australian state of Queensland to protect the rights of Indigenous children from a youth justice system that criminalizes them out…
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Australia: Official documents reveal serious incidents of abuse in Queensland juvenile detention centres
Australia must establish independent bodies to investigate child abuse in its detention facilities across the country, Amnesty International said today after it obtained more than 1,000 pages of government documents…
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Good News! – Three Activists Released on Bail (Egypt: UA 15/16)
Dr Taher Mokhtar and two other activists were released from detention on 11 August. A Cairo court had ordered their release on bail nine days earlier on 3 August. They…
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Amnesty International USA Responds to Announcement that DOJ Will End Use of Private Prisons
“Reports have shown that the federal government has failed to adequately oversee privately operated prisons that do not meet human rights standards, resulting in dangerous conditions for prisoners and staff,”…
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‘It breaks the human’: Torture, disease and death in Syria’s prisons
Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant torture and other ill-treatment in Syrian prisons are laid bare…
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Hanging of teenager in Iran shows authorities’ brazen disregard for international law
A teenager was executed in Iran after being convicted of the rape of another boy, the first confirmed execution of a juvenile in the country this year.
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Iran is putting political prisoners’ lives at risk by denying them medical care
Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate medical care, putting them at grave risk of death, permanent…