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US police used excessive force at least 125 times in the 10 days after the police killing of George Floyd, according to a new report
A new 68-page report from Amnesty International details repeated instances of excessive force at Bl…
Charles Davis
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Amnesty International says Twitter doesn't respect women's human rights - and it's projecting giant examples of abusive tweets on Twitter's headquarters to prove it
The abundance of abusive, often overtly racist and misogynistic, content on Twitter has been a long…
Katie Canales
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Researchers discover a fake anti-virus tool for Pegasus by hackers impersonating Amnesty International
Hackers put in quite a lot of effort in replicating Amnesty International’s website but the gi…
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Amnesty International stopped classifying Putin critic Alexei Navalny as a prisoner of conscience, saying he advocated hatred in the past
The human-rights NGO is still calling for Navalny's release but said some past statements "reach th…
Mia Jankowicz
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New Satellite Pictures Show The Staggering Extent Of Devastation Caused By Boko Haram
Akwei said that those figures "confirm the Nigerian government's continuing policy of underreportin…
Stefano Pozzebon
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Israel's 'shocking disregard' for Palestinian civilians may be a war crime, human rights group says
Amnesty International said it had documented four attacks on residential homes that killed innocent…
Charles Davis
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MAP: These 5 Countries Lead The World In Executions
There was a reported 15% increase in executions in 2013 over 2012, mostly due to an increase of exe…
Jeremy Bender
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Tech companies says it's too hard to investigate whether they benefit from child labour
He said, per The Guardian: These are some of the biggest companies in the world, with combined prof…
Rob Price
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These 5 Countries Execute The Most People
China, number one on the list, keeps death penalty information a state secret. That makes knowing p…
Christina Sterbenz
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Twitter is so 'toxic' that Amnesty International is enlisting a 'Troll Patrol' to help police it
For its part, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has committed to being more open and transparent, as he works…
Katie Canales
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Amnesty says Google and Facebook threaten human rights
Critics and activists frequently point out that Google and Facebook rely on scooping up vast amount…
Charlie Wood
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NYPD must release 2,700 documents on surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists, or say why it can't: judge
The judge rejected the New York Police Department's claim that turning over emails related to facia…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Spyware successfully broke into journalists' iPhones by sending iMessages that didn't even need to be read
Amnesty International said its analysis indicates all current iPhone models and iOS versions are vu…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Human rights groups are pleading with Mexico's top health official to pressure the release of detained migrants at risk of contracting COVID-19
The majority of Mexico's detained migrant population cannot be repatriated due to COVID-19 travel r…
Charles Davis
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Saudi Arabia breaks its own record for executions, beheading over 180 people in 2019
While executions fell globally, Saudi Arabia put more people to death than ever before, according t…
Charles Davis
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This Stunning GIF Shows How Many People America Has Executed Since 1977
Since 1996 there has been a marked decrease of support for the death penalty. Still, according to A…
Jeremy Bender
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New Report Details Expansion Of North Korean Prison Camps, Guards Use Of Rape And Torture
Amnesty called on North Korea to close the camps immediately, and urged countries like China to sto…
Agence France Presse
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18,000 elderly people have died of COVID-19 in British care homes and now Boris Johnson's government is being accused of human rights abuse
Sending hospital patients back into care homes was"inexplicable" and "disastrous," Amnesty Internat…
Naina Bhardwaj
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Report: Torture is routinely used in China to obtain confessions and silence human-rights lawyers
Often, Chinese lawyers who attempt to litigate cases where clients have had their human rights viol…