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A caricature featured in the Belgian textbook Polaris GO!3. (Courtesy of Joods Actueel via JTA)
March 23, 2018, 5:58 pm
Rights group calls cartoon depicting greedy Israelis ‘misleading’
Caricature illustrating Amnesty International's claim that Israel denies Palestinians proper access to water is used in some Belgian textbooks
By JTA
Alireza Avaie (Alireza.gharibdoust / Wikipedia)
February 22, 2018, 8:01 pm
Outrage as Iran justice minister set to address UN human rights meet
Alireza Avaie has been sanctioned for human rights violations, arbitrary arrests, denials of prisoners' rights, and increase in executions
By AFP
January 24, 2018, 6:04 am
Human rights are universal, Amnesty, even for Jews
The organization's move to cancel a debate featuring Hillel Neuer shows they have lost their way
By Maajid Nawaz
Sixteen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi (2nd right) stands for a hearing in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank, on January 15, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
January 15, 2018, 10:01 pm
Court extends remand of Palestinian teen who slapped Israeli soldiers
Ahed Tamimi to stay in detention for at least 2 more days, as judge considers whether to allow her out on bail ahead of trial
By AFP and Jacob Magid
Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi (C) attends a hearing at the Ofer military court in the West Bank on December 28, 2017. (AFP Photo/Ahmad Gharabli)
January 15, 2018, 2:25 pm
Amnesty demands Israel release soldier-slapping Palestinian teen
As 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi appears in court, human rights group calls continued detention and indictment 'blatantly disproportionate'
By Michael Bachner and Jacob Magid
Iraqi Kurdish security forces escort a suspected member of the Islamic State group who was arrested the previous day during clashes in the southern suburbs of Kirkuk, October 22, 2016. (AFP/Marwan IBRAHIM)
December 14, 2017, 4:11 pm
Iraq hangs 38 members of Islamic State, al-Qaeda for terrorism
Executions carried out at Nasiriyah prison in the presence of Justice Minister Haidar al-Zameli
By AFP
In this photo, members of the Syrian Civil Defense group, known as the White Helmets, inspect cluster bombs in the Khan Sheikhoun neighborhood of Idlib, Syria, September 29, 2016. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)
November 30, 2017, 2:48 pm
Syrian military used banned cluster bombs in besieged area — Amnesty
Regime forces committing war crimes on 'epic scale,' says human rights body
By AP
This photo taken on October 28, 2017 shows Rohingya Muslim refugees at a makeshift shelter at the Kutupalong refugee camp in the Bangladeshi district of Ukhia. (Tauseef MUSTAFA / AFP)
November 21, 2017, 10:23 am
Amnesty accuses Myanmar of imposing ‘apartheid’ on Rohingya
Years-long 'state-sponsored' campaign has restricted nearly all aspects of Rohingyas' lives, report says
By AFP
Demonstrators protesting outside the Spanish government delegation in Barcelona, Oct. 20, 2015. (Albert Llop/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
November 2, 2017, 6:21 am
Israel denies entry to Amnesty worker in anti-BDS move
Raed Jarrar, who is an American of Palestinian origin, was stopped at a crossing between Jordan and the West Bank while on a personal visit
By AFP and TOI staff
John Dalhuisen Amnesty International's Europe Director (3rd L) joins protesters as they hold a banner that reads, "Free rights defenders" during a rally outside the court house where the trial of eleven human rights activists is taking place in Istanbul, on October 25, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / YASIN AKGUL)
October 26, 2017, 3:56 pm
Amnesty’s Turkey chief denies terror charge
Taner Kilic, along with 10 rights activists, accused of ties to US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen, other banned groups
By Raziye AKKOC
Illustrative: Eight Egyptian men convicted for "inciting debauchery" following their appearance in a video of an alleged same-sex wedding party on a Nile boat leave the defendant's cage in a courtroom in Cairo, Egypt, November 1, 2014. (AP/Hassan Ammar, File)
October 1, 2017, 11:30 pm
Egypt puts 17 men on trial for homosexuality
Defendants accused of 'debauchery' and 'incitement to debauchery,' just over a week after at least six arrested for waving pride flag
By AFP
A gay Egyptian man lights a cigarette in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday, December 11, 2014 (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
October 1, 2017, 5:07 am
Egypt to conduct anal exams on men suspected of gay sex – report
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urge Cairo to end crackdown on people suspected of homosexuality
By Hamza Hendawi
George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, arrives for a meeting in Brussels, April 27, 2017. (AFP/Pool/Olivier Hoslet)
September 29, 2017, 3:51 pm
Rights groups slam Hungary’s new ‘hate campaign’ against Soros
Claim that the billionaire philanthropist wants to flood Europe with millions of migrants is 'absolutely absurd and unbelievable'
By AFP
File: Iraqi federal policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, June. 11, 2014. (AP/Karim Kadim)
September 25, 2017, 8:01 pm
Iraq hangs 42 prisoners on death row
Amnesty International ranks Iraq just after China, Iran and Saudi Arabia in number of executions annually
By AFP
Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a national address in Naypyidaw on September 19, 2017. (AFP/Ye Aung Thu)
September 19, 2017, 2:31 pm
Myanmar leader rebuffs foreign criticism of Rohingya crisis
Suu Kyi offers no solution to 'ethnic cleansing' but pledges to hold rights violators to account and resettle some Muslim refugees
By Hla-Hla HTAY and Aidan JONES
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