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May 6, 2013

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It's been 10 years since detainees first arrived at Guantanamo. Since then, we’ve seen shocking human rights abuses there and around the world.

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February 1, 2012

Itsmania Pineda Platero, a human rights defender and blogger based in Tegucigalpa, has received death threats by phone and text message. Her life could be at risk.

January 27, 2012

The whereabouts of two women employed by Iraq’s Vice-President’s Office are unknown. Amnesty International fears they are at risk of torture and ill-treatment.

January 21, 2012

Colombian trade union leaders Igor Díaz López and Aldo Raúl Amaya Daza have received telephone death threats. Their lives are in danger.

January 20, 2012

The Iraqi presidency has ratified the sentences of 11 men sentenced to death in 2010 for their alleged involvement in causing bomb explosions in August 2009. They are at risk of imminent execution....