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May 16, 2013

On the 100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, activists held a vigil outside the White House to bring awareness to the injustice of more than 11 years of unlawful and indefinite detentio...

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May 8, 2013

Twenty years after gaining independence, Eritrea’s prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners who are locked up in atrocious conditions without ever being charged with a crime, said A...

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May 2, 2013

Scores of journalists reporting on human rights abuses in Syria have been deliberately detained, disappeared, tortured and killed over the last two years to silence them, says Amnesty International...

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April 30, 2013

President Obama is right to recommit to closing Guantanamo. But it's time to do more than talk.

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