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Viet Nam: Amnesty International Condemns Vietnam Activist’s Sentence
Amnesty International Press ReleaseImmediate ReleaseWednesday, January 26, 2011Amnesty International Condemns Vietnam Activist’s SentenceContact: AIUSA Media Relations, 202-509-8194(Washington, D.C.) – Amnesty International has condemned the eight-year prison sentence handed down to…
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Nineteen Countries Decline to Attend Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
The Nobel Committee has confirmed that nineteen countries have declined invitations to attend the Peace Price ceremony in Norway on December 10. The Nobel Peace Prize is being awarded to…
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Torture Awareness Month
Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last Wednesday former President George W. Bush appeared to take personal responsibility for the decision to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh…
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30 Years On Refugee Rights Still in Flux
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the US Refugee Act of 1980, a bipartisan bill that made concrete the US government’s commitment to people fleeing persecution and human rights violations.…
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Write-a-Thon Series: Le Thi Cong Nhan and Nguyen Van Dai
This posting is part of our Write-a-Thon Cases Series. For more information visit www.amnestyusa.org/writeathon/ [caption id="attachment_6217" align="alignleft" width="156" caption="©AI Le Thi Cong Nhan"][/caption] Vietnamese human rights lawyers Le Thi Cong Nhan…
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Why Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! need to be reined in
(Originally posted on Daily Kos) Reporters without Borders (RWB) today issued its "Enemies of the Internet" report, exposing state censorship of free speech and expression around the world. Topping the…
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Both Illegal and Dumb
This weekend saw the publication of two powerful opinion pieces on the futility of using torture as an interrogation tool. Writing in The (London) Times on Friday General Lord Guthrie,…
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Silence Is Betrayal
Over 10 years ago, I worked in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. As a legal advisor, I researched Israeli policy and practice of demolishing the homes of Palestinians. In the night,…