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In response to President Trump’s comments on the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists following this weekend’s violence in Charlottesville — Amnesty International USA Deputy Executive Director of Campaigns and Membership, Njambi Good, issued the following statement: “Despite today’s speech, President Trump has traded in bigotry since day one, putting ordinary people at greater …
Continue reading “Trump on hate Groups: Response doesn’t go far enough”
Four years since security forces violently dispersed two sit-ins at Rabaa al Adawiya and al-Nahda squares in Greater Cairo, leaving at least 900 people dead and thousands more injured, Egypt is experiencing an unprecedented human rights crisis, said Amnesty International. Not a single person has been held to account for the events on 14 August …
In response to the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Virginia, Amnesty International USA Deputy Executive Director of Campaigns and Membership, Njambi Good, issued the following statement: “The authorities must act to de-escalate tensions in Charlottesville and take immediate steps to counter hate against people of color, immigrants, refugees, Jews, Muslims and others. “Every time the Trump …
Continue reading “Trump must condemn racial and ethnic hatred”
Almost 70,000 people from across the world have urged China’s President to lift all restrictions and end the harassment against poet and artist Liu Xia, one month after the death of her husband, Nobel Peace laureate, Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xia has not been heard of since her husband’s hastily arranged funeral ceremony and sea burial …
Continue reading “China: Tens of thousands demand President Xi frees Liu Xia”
Following today’s execution of Alireza Tajiki, a young Iranian man who was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death as a child, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa Magdalena Mughrabi said: “By going ahead with this execution in defiance of their obligations under international law, and despite huge public and international …
Continue reading “Iran: shameful execution of man arrested at 15”
Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports that the Indonesian security forces are disrupting public events and closed-door discussions about the Communist purge of 1965, in which 500,000 to one million people were unlawfully killed and hundreds of thousands held without trial According to local human rights organisations, there have been at least 39 cases …
Information gathered by Amnesty International suggests that Egyptian security forces forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed a schoolteacher who went missing after his arrest on 9 April, in the latest evidence of a chilling pattern of unlawful killings in the country. Testimony from eyewitnesses, colleagues and family members, as well as documentary evidence, indicates that Mohamed …
In response to the announcement by Israel’s communications minister, Ayoub Kara, that the Israeli government has decided to close Al Jazeera’ s office in Jerusalem and take the channel off air, Amnesty International’s Deputy Middle East and North Africa Director, Magdalena Mughrabi said: “This is a brazen attack on media freedom in Israel and the …
Continue reading “Israel: Plans to shut down Al Jazeera an attack on media freedom”
Responding to the news that the Coalition has decided to move forward with a second attempt at a plebiscite on marriage equality, Lizzi Price, LGBTQI NSW Network Convenor at Amnesty International, said: “Allowing a person access to all of their human rights is not something that should be up for public vote. On top of …
Continue reading “Any plebiscite a pointless exercise that denies human rights”
Responding to the news of the tragic death of an Iranian refugee on Manus Island, Graham Thom, Refugee Coordinator at Amnesty International Australia, said: “This is extremely sad and heartbreaking news. Amnesty International is extending our sincere condolences to the man’s family and friends.” “It is not yet clear if his death was a result …
Continue reading “Tragic death of refugee on Manus Island should have been prevented”