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An Iran Specialist Goes to Selma
I spend much of my Amnesty International time working on Iran, but I just had to go to Selma, Alabama for the 50th anniversary commemoration of “Bloody Sunday” March 7,…
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Saudi Arabia: 10 Brutal Facts Beyond Raif Badawi’s Case
Tomorrow marks eight weeks since the Saudi Arabian authorities publicly flogged the blogger and activist Raif Badawi, sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in prison for “insulting Islam” and…
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Four Questions for Prime Minister Netanyahu
[caption id="attachment_57911" align="alignleft" width="5184"] (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images)[/caption] This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to give two major speeches in Washington, DC. The first is Monday…
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Untold Stories of Syria’s Most Vulnerable Refugees
What happens when a crisis so prolongs that the world tires of it? You get 3.7 million Syrian refugees. You get stories like the one told by this woman living…
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Saudi Arabia: The Question on Everybody’s Mind
[caption id="attachment_57361" align="alignleft" width="1000"] The late Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud. ©BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty[/caption] By Sevag Kechichian, Researcher on Saudi Arabia at Amnesty International. The death of Saudi Arabia’s King…
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Who will be silenced next?
By Alicia Koutsoulieris, Case Coordinator for Israel, the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Palestinian Authority Freedom of speech has suffered a tragic start in 2015. As the world calls for…
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“He Was Silent but You Could Tell That He Was in Real Pain”
An eyewitness account of the flogging today of Raif Badawi an activist in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a website for…
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Throwing Stones from the Glass House: The View of U.S. Human Rights Violations from Iran
[caption id="attachment_56416" align="alignleft" width="300"] Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Marzieh Afkham[/caption] Iranian state-controlled news media have been having an extended field day recently, gleefully reporting on the ever-unfolding news about human…
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Evaporating Hope for My Missing Daughter
The mother of Syrian human rights attorney and activist Razan Zaitouneh shares her reflections on the one-year anniversary of her daughter's forced disappearance.
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A Timely New Book and the Precarious Situation of Journalists in Iran
[caption id="attachment_55851" align="alignleft" width="200"] former New York Times Iran correspondent NazilaFathi[/caption] Journalists working in Iran face daunting challenges. They are constantly under threat of being suddenly arrested and detained for…