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To be a Muslim in America Right Now
[caption id="attachment_68816" align="aligncenter" width="4109"] JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] To be a Muslim in America right now is to fear that your best days -- your most ordinary days -- are behind…
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Why Protecting Torture Victims Scares Egypt’s Leaders
[caption id="attachment_68751" align="aligncenter" width="3504"] Egyptian human right activist with chained hands during a protest against torture in police stations. KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images[/caption] In 2014, Amnesty International USA gave one of…
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“My Heart Is Exhausted”: A Mother’s Story of Death Row in Saudi Arabia
By Nassra al-Ahmed, mother of Ali al-Nimr Ali al-Nimr was just 17 when he was arrested on 14 February 2012 a few months after taking part in anti-government rallies. He was…
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Waterboarding Is Torture: 3 Things You Need to Know
For years, Amnesty International has witnessed public figures repeating misconceptions and inaccuracies about waterboarding. This American debate on torture has mostly got it wrong – here are three realities you…
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Muhammed, What Were You Thinking About When You Accepted the Reality of Your Death?
[caption id="attachment_68541" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Fayha Shalash, the wife of Palestinian journalist Muhammed al-Qiq, sits with her son at her home in the West Bank village of Dura on January 20,…
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Guantanamo’s Poetry: 14 Years Too Many
Can you imagine needing to write? What if you needed to write so badly that’d you use toothpaste instead of a pen, a Styrofoam cup instead of paper, if that’s…
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Guantánamo is entering its fifteenth year. Here are 5 people waiting for President Obama to keep his promise to close it.
On January 11, 2016, the detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will enter its fifteenth year of existence. The “forever prison” is perhaps the most infamous icon of the human rights…
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On Your Birthday, You Are Not Forgotten
This week, Azam Farmonov, a prisoner of conscience in Uzbekistan, is spending his 37th birthday in prison. Azam has spent the last ten years jailed for peacefully exercising his right…
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Letter from Shawkan Photojournalist Imprisoned in Egypt
Amnesty International has collected nearly 90,000 signatures worldwide in a petition calling for Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid’s release ahead of his first court session, scheduled for December 12 at…
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Free my Father, the World’s Longest Imprisoned Journalist
My father is the world’s longest imprisoned journalist, together with his codefendant Yusuf Ruzimuradov from the same paper, jailed at the same time in 1999.