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These Images Don’t Lie: Exposing North Korea’s Dirty Little Secret
New satellite images further expose North Korea’s vast system of political prison camps whose very existence authorities continue to deny.
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New Protest Law Gives Security Forces Free Rein in Egypt
A new law placing broad restrictions on protests in Egypt is a serious setback that poses a grave threat to freedom of assembly and gives security forces a free rein…
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Education Under Attack in Nigeria
Since the beginnings of 2012, at least 70 teachers and over 100 schoolchildren and students have been killed or wounded.
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USA: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Human Rights
The USA ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights in June 1992. Two decades later, the USA is failing to live up to its human rights obligations on…
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2 Historical Traumas That Continue to Cast a Long Shadow Over Iran
The same lack of will to provide some measure of justice to the survivors of Indonesia's historical tragedy after so many decades sadly afflicts many other countries.
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Herman Wallace to Governor Jindal: “Free All the Angola 3”
Herman Wallace gave the following statement to Amnesty International on Saturday, August 24th, 2013.
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Sarah Shourd: What Everyone Ought to Know About Angola 3 and Solitary Confinement
Herman is not a dangerous criminal - he is a 71-year-old cancer patient who has survived an unthinkable nightmare. As his health fails, we have to fight for him -…
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Life Under Pinochet: ‘I Remember Being Shown Some Very Severe Signs of Torture’
Roger returned to London after eight days in Chile to write one of the first reports that documented the shocking abuses taking place under Pinochet's rule.
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Amnesty International Urges Thorough, Impartial Investigation in Prisoner’s Death in California
The hunger strike by prisoners in solitary confinement in California entered its 23rd day on Tuesday, with the state reporting about 600 prisoners refusing food.
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Amnesty International Calls for End of Abuse Against Hunger Strikers in California
California prison authorities have again breached international human rights obligations by taking punitive measures against prisoners on hunger strike.
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Dear President-Elect Rouhani: Can we PLEASE Give this Poor Young Man a Break?
President-Elect Rouhani, your words have inspired some cautious hope for an improvement of Iran’s deplorable human rights record. Please look at the case of Arash Sadeghi.
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Amnesty Celebrates Mandela’s Birthday, Lifetime of Activism
Today, the former South African President and Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, father of South African democracy and role model for human rights defenders everywhere, turns 95.