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Do You Know Who is Detained at Guantanamo Bay?
Amnesty International calls on the President to immediately undertake lawful and safe detainee transfers as a matter of priority. The USA should not place any conditions on transfers of detainees…
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China’s Disappeared Uighurs Still Missing
Dozens of Uighurs who disappeared following mass arrests in the wake of a major protest in 2009 are still missing.
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China: Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed
Amnesty International Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release Monday, March 07, 2011Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed, Says Amnesty InternationalContact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194 (Washington, D.C.) An…
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China: Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed
Amnesty International Media ReleaseFor Immediate Release Monday, March 07, 2011Chinese Crackdown on Uighur Writers Continues as Web Editor Jailed, Says Amnesty InternationalContact: AIUSA media relations office, 202-509-8194 (Washington, D.C.) An…
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Annual Report: China 2010
Head of state Hu Jintao Head of government Wen Jiabao Death penalty retentionist Population 1,345.8 million Life expectancy 72.9 years Under-5 mortality (m/f) 25/35 per 1,000 Adult literacy 93.3 per…
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Egypt
"The arrest of EIPR staff, following a meeting with diplomats, Gasser Abdel-Razek’s punitive treatment in detention and the designation of human rights defenders as ‘terrorists’, are the latest illustrations of…
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China
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Relief funds help Guantanamo Uighur move forward
Corrected 2/4/10 An attorney with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel contacted me two months ago to ask for my assistance on behalf of one of her firm's Uighur clients who…
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What's A Uighur?
Corrected 2/4/10 This question was part of the opening remarks in a talk given several years ago by one of the attorneys representing the Uighurs at Guantanamo. We didn't know…
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Why Are These People Dancing?
[caption id="attachment_1712" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti"][/caption] It is Monday, March 16, 2009. These two lawyers are dancing in celebration outside the home of Iftikhar Chaudhry , Chief Justice of…
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Obama to Close Gitmo
Barack Obama has announced that he will close Guantanamo. Throughout the world, this announcement will be understood as an introduction to a new kind of American leadership, a repudiation of…