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January 6, 2012
37-year-old businessman Yassin Ziadeh was arrested by members of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence on 30 August 2011 in Daraya, near the Syrian capital of Damascus. Yassin Ziadeh was released witho...
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December 18, 2011
Amnesty International today expressed sadness about the news that former Czech President and brave human rights defender Vaclav Havel has died.
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December 2, 2011
Following the announcement that Martina Davis Correia, the longtime activist against the death penalty and sister of Troy Anthony Davis, had succumbed to cancer, Curt Goering, chief operating offic...
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November 29, 2011
Amnesty International today reiterated its call on Nigerian authorities to scrap a harsh bill that if passed into law would attack basic rights and criminalize relationships between people of the s...
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