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Libya: Internal Security Agency Must Be Held Accountable for Deaths in Custody, Enforced Disappearances and Arbitrary Detention
The spike in arbitrary detentions and deaths in custody in recent months highlights how the existing culture of impunity has empowered armed groups to violate detainees’ right to life without…
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Pakistan: The New Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Act Threatens the Right to Protest
The Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Act 2024 is yet another attack on the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Pakistan.
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Venezuela: UN Rights Council Should Renew Experts’ Mandate
International Accountability Urgently Needed Amid Intensifying Post-Election Repression.
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No Justice Delivered 23 Years After 9/11 Attacks
23 years after these horrific attacks the survivors and victims’ families have yet to see any justice or accountability for this crime against humanity.
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President Biden Urged to Grant Clemency to Jailed Indigenous Activist Leonard Peltier as He Turns 80
Leonard Peltier should not have to die in prison. In Biden's remaining months in office, he should grant Peltier clemency and release him.
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Saudi Arabia: Authorities Hosting Internet Governance Forum While Imprisoning Online Critics Exposes Deep Hypocrisy
40 NGOs and human rights organizations call on Saudi Arabia’ s authorities to immediately release all those arbitrarily detained solely for expressing their views online ahead of the upcoming Internet…
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Amnesty International USA Reaction to Shooting at Apalachee High School
Amnesty International USA continues to stand with the community of Winder, students and faculty of Apalachee, and other school communities that have been affected by gun violence this school year…
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Israeli Military Must Be Investigated for War Crime of Wanton Destruction in Gaza
A new Amnesty International investigation documents how the Israeli military’s creation of a “buffer zone” along the eastern perimeter of the occupied Gaza Strip amounts to the war crimes of…
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Hong Kong: Government Must Show Progress on Same-Sex Partnership Legislation after Landmark Ruling
One year after a landmark ruling on LGBTI rights in Hong Kong, authorities should provide a progress update on their plans to recognize same-sex partnerships in the city.
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China: Re-detention of Activist Zhang Zhan Highlights Beijing’s Intolerance of Dissent
Chinese authorities must end their persecution of the citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, Amnesty International said.
