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Sole witness to Berta Cáceres murder: “It was clear she was going to get killed”
The armed men who burst into the house of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres on 3 March had a simple plan: find her, kill her, and leave.
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“I will never stop” – a mother’s campaign to free her son in Iran
Iranian spiritual teacher and prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri has been in pre-trial solitary confinement for five years, and has launched over a dozen hunger strikes in protest at…
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Sentenced to Eight Years in Jail for a Miscarriage
A 27-year-old woman, known as Belén to protect her identity, has spent the past two years in pre-trial detention accused of self-inducting a miscarriage. After the accusations, Belén was arrested…
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Journalism Is Not a Crime
Journalism is not a crime, yet the principles of free speech and a free press are threatened right across the world. To mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May,…
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Trapped in Europe’s New Refugee Camp: Greece
Among the olive groves on some of Greece’s beautiful islands there are barbed wire fences. At least 6,000 asylum-seekers have been locked up here since a new European Union (EU)…
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Scholars Jailed in Turkey’s On-Going War Against Freedom of Expression: How You Can Take Action
Turkey has suffered from a series of horrendous attacks in recent months. The security challenges it faces are very real. Unfortunately, the rhetoric coming out of Ankara suggests that, under…
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Myanmar: Student Activist, Phyoe Phyoe Aung, Finally Free
Phyoe Phyoe Aung, who was detained in Myanmar after helping to organize largely peaceful student protests, has finally been released more than one year on.
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Where Is My Brother, Adel?
By Ali Barazi Adel Barazi was 28 years’ old when he was arrested on 11 August 2012. A group of armed uniformed men raided his family’s house and arrested Adel…
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10 Reasons to Abolish the Death Penalty
Today, Amnesty International released its annual report on the use of the death penalty worldwide. 2015 was a year of extremes – the number of executions worldwide skyrocketed, but here in…
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Beaten, Arrested & Facing a Decade Behind Bars
On March 10, 2015 hundreds of student protestors were at a standstill near the city of Letpadan in Myanmar. They had reached the eighth day of a standoff between largely…