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DEATH PENALTY 2022: Recorded Executions Skyrocket to Highest Figure in Five Years

May 16, 2023 | Afghanistan

Report

Human rights in the Middle East and North Africa: A review of 2018

February 26, 2019

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Ai Weiwei, Snowden, Pussy Riot take place of online ads to protest censorship

March 10, 2016

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Amnesty International’s Annual State of the World Report Slams Governments, Including the U.S., for Global Assault on Freedoms

February 22, 2016 | Child Marriage

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Report

Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016

February 18, 2016 | Annual Report

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Press Release

Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International

February 18, 2016 | Child Marriage

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Press Release

Kuwaiti electronic crimes law threatens to further stifle freedom of expression

January 11, 2016 | censorship

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Press Release

Kuwait at risk of sliding into deeper repression amid growing clampdown on critics

December 16, 2015

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Press Release

Overturn death sentences in mosque bombing case in Kuwait

September 15, 2015

Report

State of the World 2014/2015

February 25, 2015

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Report

Annual Report: Kuwait 2013

May 21, 2013

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Press Release

Kuwait Urged to Respect Freedom of Speech After Man Sentenced for ‘Insulting Islam’ in Tweets

June 7, 2012