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Before-and-after photographs show more than 3,100 structures destroyed by fire in villages where hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed Same Jones and Monica Mark The Guardian [UK] 15 January 2015 New satellite photographs have laid bare the catastrophic scale of the latest Boko Haram atrocities, which are thought to have left hundreds of people dead and […] January 16th, 2015 | Tags: abductions, Amnesty International, Baga, Boko Haram, Borno, Doron Baga, genocide, girls, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Nigeria, suicide bombers | Category: Africa, Islam, terrorism | Comments are closed
Thousands of Yazidi women captured as ISIS took Sinjar city in August Girls as young as 12 forced into marriage, raped, and beaten for resisting Others sold to fighters who took them home to live with their wives Many girls commit suicide, according to witnesses who have escaped
Chris Pleasance and Jennifer Newton […] December 24th, 2014 | Tags: Amnesty International, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), misogyny, sexual abuse, slavery, Yazidi | Category: child abuse, Human Rights, Islam, United Nations | Comments are closed
Thirty officials of the North Korean regime who were involved in talks with South Korea have been executed or died in “staged traffic accidents,” according to a human rights report. Julian Ryall The Telegraph [UK] 25 May 2012 In its annual study, Amnesty International claimed that in addition to the 30 who died in purges […] May 27th, 2012 | Tags: Amnesty International, assassination, executions, gulag system, intercontinental ballistic missiles, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, political prisoners, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Seoul, South Korea | Category: Communism, North Korea, nuclear weapons, Politics | Comments are closed
Controversial $662bn bill signed by Obama on Saturday Condemned as ‘dangerous’ and ‘blight on his legacy’ Obama raised ‘serious reservations’ about detention Mark Duell Daily Mail [UK] 1st January 2012 Civil rights groups today voiced major concern over a defence bill allowing the military to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism. The $662billion […] January 2nd, 2012 | Tags: "Indefinitely Detained", ACLU, Amnesty International, Guantanamo Bay detainees, Human Rights Watch, indefinite detention, National Defense Authorization Act, Posse Comitatus | Category: Barack Obama, civil liberties, Civil rights, Congress, law enforcement, Military, terrorism, US Constitution | Comments are closed
Zambia Tells Amnesty International to Go Screw BigFurHat iOwnTheWorld 12/5/2011 …“On what basis does Amnesty International want us to arrest Mr Bush? Tell them to hang, and also please ask them to create their own country and wait for Mr Bush to visit their country so that they can arrest him to suit their wish […] December 5th, 2011 | Tags: Amnesty International, Foreign Minister Chishimba Kambwili, George W. Bush, torture, war crimes, Zambia | Category: Afghanistan, Africa, Human Rights, Iraq, Politics | Comments are closed
Tim Mak Politico 10/12/2011 The human rights group Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest former President George W. Bush when he attends an economic summit in the province of British Columbia next week. The group accused Bush of “responsibility for crimes under international law including torture.” Amnesty International asked that Canada either […] October 12th, 2011 | Tags: Amnesty International, Christopher Hitchens, Fidel Castro, George W. Bush, Gnassingbé Eyadema, international law, Salman Rushdie, war crimes | Category: Canada, Cuba, Human Rights | Comments are closed
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