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Chinese and Hong Kong flags are hanged to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong handover to China, in Hong Kong, Friday, June 17, 2022. Hong Kong's government on Saturday, May 27, 2023 slammed rights group Amnesty International's accusation over a missing Uyghur student as "groundless," and said that government records showed that the student had not entered or been refused entry to Hong Kong. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Hong Kong denies knowledge about Uyghur student, slams Amnesty for saying he disappeared at airport

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

FILE - The execution chamber of the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution prison in Nashville, Tenn., is seen on Oct. 13, 1999. According to an independent review released Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022, Tennessee has not complied with its own lethal injection protocol ever since it was revised in 2018, resulting in multiple executions being conducted without proper testing. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

Amnesty: Executions worldwide increased by 53% in 2022, rose in Iran, Saudi Arabia

By Niniek Karmini - Associated Press

Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East & North Africa Aya Majzoub, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 28, 2023. Leading international rights group Amnesty International on Tuesday decried what it said were double standards by Western countries, which rallied behind a "robust response" to Russia's invasion of Ukraine but remain "lukewarm" on issues of human rights violations in the Middle East. The Arabic Words in the background read "Woman, life, freedom." (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Amnesty: West’s ‘double standards’ fuel Mideast repression

By Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

Egypt's leading pro-democracy activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah speaks during a conference at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 22, 2014. The head of Amnesty International says that the proceedings of COP27 will be stained by the death of Egypt's leading rights activist on a hunger and water strike in prison if Egyptian authorities do not release him within days. Speaking in Cairo Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022 Amnesty's chief said the government had no more than 72 hours to save Alaa Abdel-Fattah's life. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)

Amnesty: Egypt has days to save jailed activist’s life

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In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, third left, reviews a group of armed forces cadets during their graduation ceremony accompanied by commanders of the armed forces, at the police academy in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022. Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he called “rioting” and accuse the U.S. and Israel of planning the protests. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s supreme leader breaks silence on protests, blames U.S.

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A gavel is shown against a backdrop of law books in this undated stock photo. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jehovah’s Witness member faces S. Korea trial over conscientious objection, military service refusal

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Maria Dolores Garcia, the mother of Esmeralda Dominguez, looks out at the plants dying in her daughter’s unattended garden, in the Sisiguayo community in Jiquilisco, in the Bajo Lempa region of El Salvador, Thursday, May 12, 2022. Her daughter is among thousands arrested since the congress granted President Nayib Bukele a state of emergency declaration suspending civil liberties after street gangs killed dozens of people in late March. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)

A crackdown in El Salvador, and fears of arbitrary arrests

By Marcos Aleman and Christopher Sherman - Associated Press

FILE - Spain's Premier Pedro Sanchez speaks during a joint news conference with Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. Spain's intelligence agency is facing growing criticism after the discovery that politicians had their phones hacked, even as far as the device in the prime minister's pocket. The head of Spain’s National Intelligence Center is set to appear at a closed-door parliamentary hearing on Thursday, May 5, 2022 and is expected to break the secrecy code that prohibits members of the government from revealing the workings of her agency. (AP Photo/Paul White, File)

Catalan: Spain spy chief admits legally hacking some phones

By Joseph Wilson - Associated Press

Illustration on the spread of antisemitism by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Amnesty International spreads the virus of antisemitism

By Clifford D. May

No other nation offers land to aggressors

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FILE - Palestinians use a ladder to climb over the separation barrier with Israel on their way to pray at the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in Al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, July 11, 2014. Israel on Monday, Jan. 31, 2022, called on Amnesty International not to publish an upcoming report accusing it of apartheid, saying the conclusions of the London-based international human rights group are “false, biased and antisemitic.” (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed, File)

Amnesty joins rights groups in accusing Israel of apartheid

By Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Iran on Trial in Sweden Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Swedish court putting Iran’s theocracy on trial

By Asghar Mehdizadeh

6 Palestinian rights activists hacked by NSO spyware, report says

By Frank Bajak and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Amnesty International to close Hong Kong offices this year

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

Migrants pass the time at a migrant shelter, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in McAllen, Texas. The U.S. government continues to report large numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border with an increase in adult crossers. But families and unaccompanied children are still arriving in dramatic numbers despite the weather changing in the Rio Grande Valley registering hotter days and nights. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Amnesty International says DHS is deporting thousands of children to Mexico

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Government of Uganda Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

U.S. criticism of Africa’s human rights is full of contradictions

By Wes Martin

Blood covers the floor of a home during a police operation targeting drug traffickers in the Jacarezinho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Thursday, May 6, 2021. At least 25 people died including one police officer and 24 suspects, according to the press office of Rio's civil police. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

Deadly police shootout prompts claims of abuse in Brazil

By DAVID BILLER and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA - Associated Press

A U.S. flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the U.S. Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Afghan Ministry of Defense Press Office via AP)

Amid US pullout, Taliban issue threat to Afghan journalists

By KATHY GANNON and TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

UN Security Council: ‘Deep concern’ about Ethiopia’s Tigray

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In this Aug. 22, 2015, file photo, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt. A report released by Amnesty International Wednesday, April 21, 2021, said the number of executions worldwide in 2020 plummeted to its lowest level in at least a decade. But the report said four states in the Middle East — Iran, Egypt, Iraq and Saudi Arabia respectively — topped the global list and pressed on with shootings, beheadings and hangings, ignoring pleas by rights groups to halt executions during the pandemic. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Report: Mideast countries top 2020 global executioners list

By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press