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#FreeRaif: US should press for release of Saudi blogger
[caption id="attachment_59656" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Ensaf Haidar, wife of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi[/caption] By Ensaf Haidar, via The Washington Post On June 17, 2012, my husband, Raif Badawi, the father of my three…
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Tech and Human Rights: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
As someone whose job it is to take advantage of technological progress for human rights research and advocacy, I am a strong proponent of using new tools and methods to…
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Ferguson Resignations Underline Need for National Criminal Justice Reform
Following resignations in Ferguson, national criminal justice reform is needed.
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Honduran journalist told he would be found “in a ditch”
[caption id="attachment_58476" align="aligncenter" width="3065"] Honduran journalists take part in a vigil in memory of journalists killed in Honduras. (ORLANDO SIERRA/AFP/GettyImages)[/caption] On January 24, a high-ranking military official told Honduran journalist…
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Free Speech Should Be Worth More Than Diamonds in Angola
[caption id="attachment_58461" align="aligncenter" width="4642"] Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry on May 5, 2014. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] How many attempts by…
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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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9 Eye-Opening Facts about the State of Human Rights Worldwide
In 2014, Amnesty International recorded and investigated human rights abuses in 160 countries and territories worldwide*. While progress is being made in some areas, the frightening facts and figures below…
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Azerbaijan: Brutal Crackdown Against Journalists Continues
By Nic Carter, Amnesty International USA Over the last year, Azerbaijan has imprisoned dozens of journalists, human rights advocates, bloggers, lawyers, and academics who have criticized the regime. Ilham Aliev’s repressive…
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Russia: Defending LGBT Rights is not “Propaganda”
[caption id="attachment_42841" align="alignleft" width="300"] Meet Elena Klimova, the latest victim of Russia's anti-LGBT "propaganda" law (Photo Credit: Private).[/caption] On January 23, journalist Elena Klimova, the founder of the online LGBT…
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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…