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Tag: Amnesty International
Amnesty International Calls For Ending Israeli Apartheid
This Tuesday, Amnesty International, the world’s leading human rights organisation, released a near 300 page report accusing Israel of committing the crime of Apartheid. The report has now created a consensus amongst human rights groups that Israel is a racist regime, built on Jewish supremacy. Prior to the release of the lengthy and well researched Read More…
Civilian Death Toll from US Strikes In Syria And Iraq: 1,061 (Official); 6,575-26,224 (AirWars)
Prominent human-rights groups like Amnesty International have rejected the U.S.-led coalition’s reported figures on civilian deaths, stating that the coalition is “deeply in denial” about the “large number of civilians killed and injured by [coalition] strikes.” WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the U.S.-led coalition targeting Daesh (ISIS) published a casualty report that has drawn criticism and consternation from Read More…
Amnesty Demands Independent Probe Of Civilians Massacred During US Annihilation Of Raqqa
“How can the coalition avoid inflicting high civilian death tolls in the future without accounting for what went wrong in Raqqa?” Amnesty International on Monday is urging the U.S.-led military coalition targeting the Islamic State in Syria to launch an independent investigation into the full scale of civilian carnage it may have caused in its brutal Raqqa Read More…
Amnesty Calls For Probe Of UAE Forces Torturing Detainees At Secret Prisons In Yemen
Amnesty International on Thursday accused members of the United Arab Emirates armed forces and allied Yemeni fighters of torturing and abusing detainees in a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen. The human rights group said in the report that scores of men had been “forcibly disappeared” and subjected to systematic torture and ill treatment by UAE Read More…
Massive US Sex Trafficking Bust Ensnares Over 1,000—Including Law Enforcement And Clergy
From Seattle to Tuscaloosa, police arrested more than 1,000 people in just one month — including a law enforcement officer and pastor — as part of a sweeping crackdown on child sex offenders, and juvenile and adult sex trafficking in the United States. Police from 37 departments in 17 states participated in the annual National Johns Suppression Read More…