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Urgent Action: Kazakh Family at Risk of Torture in Detention (China: UA 4.21)
Weilina Muhatai and her two sons, Muheyati Haliyoula and Parisati Haliyoula, have been missing since August 2020. As ethnic Kazakhs living in China’s Xinjiang region, their possible detention is thought…
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Urgent Action Update: Lengthy Imprisonment for Retired Uyghur Doctor (China: UA 88.20)
Retired Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in a secret trial for “taking part in organized terrorism, aiding terrorist activities and seriously disrupting social order” in…
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Urgent Action Update: Covid-19 Journalist Sentenced to Four Years for Exposing Truth (China: UA 170.20)
The Pudong New District People’s Court sentenced citizen journalist Zhang Zhan to four years in prison on 28 December 2020. The charge against her of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”…
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Urgent Action Update: Uyghur Again Detained Incommunicado (China: UA 86.20)
Mahira Yakub was sent back to Yining Detention Center in China’s Xinjiang region in late November 2020 and is still without access to her family and a lawyer of her…
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AIUSA Letter to HFAC on 2021 International Human Rights Priorities
On December 10, 2020, Amnesty International USA addressed a letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee outlining the organization’s international human rights priorities for 2021. Click here to read the…
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December 9 Testimony for House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on International Human Rights and Closing Civic Space
On December 8, 2020, Amnesty International USA's National Director of Advocacy and Government Relations Joanne Lin submitted her written testimony ahead of House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global…
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AIUSA Letter to SFRC on 2021 International Human Rights Priorities
On November 9, 2020, Amnesty International USA addressed a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee outlining the organization's international human rights priorities for 2021. Click here to read the…
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Urgent Action Update: Life Imprisonment for Missing Kazakh Writer (China: UA 63.20)
Ethnic Kazakh writer Nagyz Muhammed has been convicted of “separatism” for gathering with his friends on Kazakhstan Independence Day, expressing opinions on Xinjiang’s “bilingual education” policy and encouraging Kazakhs living…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – October 2020 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured Issue Congress’s Record on International Human Rights Human Rights Concerns in U.S. Elections International Updates COVID-19 and Human Rights Human…
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Amnesty International USA Comments on DHS’s Sweeping New Biometric Surveillance Rule
For PDF, click here. Michael J. McDermott Security and Public Safety Division, Office of Policy and Strategy U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Department of Homeland Security 20 Massachusetts Ave. NW,…
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Amnesty International Statement for Lantos Commission Hearing on Enforced Disappearances
On September 30, Amnesty International submitted its statement for a Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hearing titled "Enforced Disappearance in Latin America: Taking Stock" on October 1, 2020. Click here…
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Urgent Action Update: Health Fears for Prisoner of Conscience (China: UA 284.16)
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang”, was finally able to talk to his mother on 17 September 2020, the first time since he was…