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Amnesty International

January 14, 2021

Amnesty letter to 3,500 mayors and governors calls for tighter security ahead of inauguration

Amnesty International has called upon US mayors and governors to protect people from armed groups and to denounce white supremacy ahead of next week's Presidential Inauguration.
January 12, 2021

Biden must close Guantánamo, says new Amnesty report

Eleven years ago Vice-President Joe Biden said the Obama adminstration would close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay.
January 9, 2021

Amnesty condemns assault on Capitol as 'moment of reckoning' for the US.

Amnesty Interntional has condemned President Trump for having "fanned the flames of the chaos and violence" following the breach of the US Capitol.
January 6, 2021

Palestinian activist faces long jail sentence

Amnesty International believes all the charges against Issa Amro are politically-motivated and linked to his peaceful work in exposing Israel’s human rights violations.
December 30, 2020

'Sham trial' of Saudi women's activist Loujain al-Hathloul set to resume

The human rights campaigner was arrested almost two years ago.
December 18, 2020

Warning on telecoms firms selling access to surveillance companies

Telecom operators are selling access to a component of the cellular network to private surveillance firms, allowing them to locate and intercept the communications of unwitting targets.
December 11, 2020

Airbnb 'deeply compromised' by Israeli settlement properties share listing

Airbnb is benefiting from illegal settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says Amnesty International.
December 9, 2020

Amnesty warns of 'giant leap backwards' as Human Rights Act threatened

Tearing up the Human Rights Act would be the single biggest reduction in rights in the history of the UK, says Amnesty.
December 4, 2020

CQC report does not go far enough on DNR scandal, says Amnesty

The blanket use of do-not-resuscitate orders for care home residents is one of the most devastating scandals of the pandemic, says Amnesty.
November 30, 2020

Northern Ireland journalists receive death threats

Chilling threats against journalists are now being made on an almost daily basis, says Amnesty International.