Amnesty International
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Amnesty: Israel’s attacks on Palestinians are crime against humanity which must end
Amnesty International on Tuesday called out ‘Israel’ an apartheid state, indicating that its continuous attacks against the Palestinian people are a crime against humanity.
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US activists demand Saudi Arabia halt deportation of Uyghurs to China
Under international law, the kingdom has an obligation not to forcibly return Uyghurs to China, says Amnesty International.
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Amnesty International: UN Special Rapporteur Says Israel is Committing Apartheid
The Special Rapporteur’s findings are an important and timely addition to the growing international consensus that Israeli authorities are committing apartheid against the Palestinian people.
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Egypt: Investigate police officers, not detainees, for leaked torture videos
It is both shameful and surreal that the Egyptian authorities’ response to this video was to punish the victims and some of their friends instead of immediately investigating those caught on video in a stark illustration of Egypt’s epidemic of torture and other ill-treatment.
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Israel's former attorney general says his country is an 'apartheid regime'
Michael Ben-Yair agrees with the Amnesty report and urges the international community to recognise apartheid.
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Israel's apartheid against Palestinians
The discrimination, the dispossession, the repression of dissent, the killings and injuries – all are part of a system which is designed to privilege Jewish Israelis at the expense of Palestinians. This is apartheid.
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Afghanistan: 24 killed in Daesh suicide attack in Kabul’s Shia Hazara neighbourhood
The death toll in Afghanistan’s capital climbed to 24 on Sunday after a suicide bombing the previous day, officials confirmed.
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Amnesty International urges Saudi king to withdraw charges against senior Hamas official, his son
Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia's King Salman to order the withdrawal of charges leveled against a high-ranking official of the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas and his son, saying they have been both subjected to grave violations of human rights.
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Amnesty: Israel must end its methodical human rights violations
Amnesty International highlighted that no diplomatic agreement could change the legal duties of Israel as an occupying power, in reference to the normalization agreement between Manama and Tel Aviv.
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UN welcomes Indonesia’s acceptance of Rohingya refugees
The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) welcomed the landing of approximately 300 Rohingya refugees on the northern coast of Aceh, Indonesia, after seven months at sea.
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India's police force 'complicit' in February's anti-Muslim riots in Delhi
When anti-Muslim riots broke out in Delhi in February this year, India's Hindu nationalist government was quick to spin the story with the help of its online troll army and other fanatics.
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Amnesty International to TripAdvisor: Remove listings in Israeli settlements
With a sharp increase in settlement expansion underway, and persistent attacks on Palestinians and their properties by some Israeli settlers, it is more important than ever that companies do not further legitimize settlements by doing business in them.