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Help Me Free My Father, Leonard Peltier
By Kathy Peltier, Daughter of Leonard Peltier Today, fathers across the U.S. will be celebrated, spending time with their loved ones and enjoying time with their children. But for me, Father's Day…
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Mexico: Woman tortured by police is released from prison after four years of injustice
A judge´s decision to acquit mother of two Yecenia Armenta Graciano and release her from prison today in northern Mexico brings an end to four long years of injustice, said…
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Military court in Egypt sentences eight to death after disappearance and confessions under torture
An Egyptian military court has sentenced eight civilians to death and another 18 individuals to lengthy prison terms, after a grossly unfair military trial that relied on “confessions” extracted under…
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Heading the Wrong Way: The Ever Closing Political Space in Ethiopia
Sub-Saharan Africa is facing a growing trend of evaporating political space. Non-governmental organizations are being heavily and often violently restricted, and newspapers, bloggers and other voices of dissent or criticism…
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Renowned Physicist in Danger of Dying if Returned to Prison in Iran
It didn’t have to be this way. A promising young physicist, beloved by his colleagues, lies in a hospital bed with just one kidney left. The other was removed because cancer had…
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Iran: Release Amir Amirgholi (UA 108/16)
Iranian activist Amir Amirgholi was sentenced in early 2016 to 19 years and six months in prison following an hour-long trial on charges that stem from his peaceful activism.
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Venezuela: Protect Humberto Prado Sifontes (UA 104/16)
Venezuelan human rights defender Humberto Prado Sifontes has been threatened for his work examining prisons.
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Jailed in El Salvador after losing their pregnancies
For many of us around the world, Mother’s Day falls on May 8th this year, which also marks Teodora’s 36th birthday. Teodora has spent eight years in prison, and will…
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Torture Is Not the Answer
[caption id="attachment_70676" align="alignleft" width="1000"] Still from 'Waiting For The Guards ' shows simulated torture by the CIA[/caption] Too little, and much too late. CIA Director John Brennan this week declared…
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Over a Thousand Human Rights Activists Gather in Miami for Amnesty International USA’s 51st Annual General Meeting
Every day, people from Miami to Monrovia are fighting for human rights, whether that means standing up for freedom of expression or against abuses by police. From April 1-3, Amnesty…
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Death penalty repeal: if not now, when?
There is a growing call from the Black community throughout the nation for reform of the criminal justice system. We hear the bellowing of the now-famous phrase “Black Lives Matter”…
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Amnesty International USA: Woodfox’s Release Long Overdue
Today, the last imprisoned member of the Angola 3, Albert Woodfox, was released after more than four decades in solitary confinement.