Amnesty International Press Release Monday, September 19, 2011 Amnesty International Condemns Decision to Deny Troy Davis Clemency Calling It An ‘Outrageous Affront to Justice’ Contact: Wende Gozan Brown at 347-526-5520, wgozan@aiusa.org (Atlanta) – Following the announcement that the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied clemency to death-row inmate Troy Anthony Davis, Larry Cox, executive [...]
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Amnesty International Condemns Decision to Deny Troy Davis Clemency
Posted in AI press release, Death penalty, USA on September 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Freed Libyan prisoner of conscience hails Amnesty International
Posted in AI press release, Libya on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Amnesty International 5 September 2011 Freed Libyan prisoner of conscience hails Amnesty International A prominent Libyan prisoner of conscience freed from detention has thanked Amnesty International for working on his behalf while in detention. Jamal al-Hajji, a long-term critic of Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi, was freed from the notorious Abu Salim prison on 24 August following [...]
Report reveals crimes against humanity in Syrian town
Posted in AI press release, Syria on July 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Amnesty International 6 July 2011 Report reveals crimes against humanity in Syrian town The brutal methods used in a devastating Syrian security operation in the western town of Tell Kalakh may constitute crimes against humanity, Amnesty International said today in a new report. Crackdown in Syria: Terror in Tell Kalakh documents deaths in custody, torture [...]
Amnesty International launches annual report on the eve of its 50th anniversary
Posted in AI press release, tagged AI Annual Report on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Amnesty International 13 May 2011 Report 2011: Amnesty International at 50 says historic change on knife-edge Growing demands for freedom and justice across the Middle East and North Africa and the rise of social media offer an unprecedented opportunity for human rights change – but this change stands on a knife-edge, said Amnesty International as [...]
Moroccan prisoner of conscience Chekib El-Khiari released from prison
Posted in AI press release, Group 48, Morocco, tagged Chekib El-Khiari on April 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT AI Index: MDE 29/002/2011 Date: 15 April 2011 Morocco royal pardon an encouraging step Amnesty International has welcomed yesterday’s pardon of prisoner of conscience Chekib El-Khiari, jailed in June 2009 for speaking out against corruption. The organization has further welcomed yesterday’s bailing of three Sahrawi human rights activists, who had been [...]
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