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FILE - In this 2018 file photo taken in London, Karim Ennarah and his now-wife Jess Kelly pose for a photo after graduating from the School of Oriental and African Studies. On Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, an Egyptian court upheld a prosecutor's decision to temporarily freeze the assets of three members of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, including its executive director Gasser Abdel-Razek, criminal justice director Ennarah and administrative director Mohammed Basheer. The three were arrested last month after the EIPR hosted foreign diplomats for 13 Western countries to discuss the human rights situation in Egypt. They were freed Thursday, Dec. 3. (Courtesy of Jess Kelly via AP, File)

Egypt court upholds asset freeze for 3 human rights workers

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A family member of an inmate pleads to a policeman as she seeks information on the condition of her relative outside the Mahara prison complex following an overnight unrest in Mahara, outskirts of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020. Sri Lankan officials say six inmates were killed and 35 others were injured when guards opened fire to control a riot at a prison on the outskirts of the capital. Two guards were critically injured. Pandemic-related unrest has been growing in Sri Lanka's overcrowded prisons. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Rights group asks Sri Lanka to probe deadly prison unrest

By KRISHAN FRANCIS - Associated Press

Rights groups decry attacks on Pakistan’s minority Ahmadis

By MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

Medical staff attend to a journalist affected by tear gas fired by police during a protest against a top court ruling restricting abortions in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Polish police came under criticism on Thursday for using tear gas and force on mostly female and young protesters during the latest in a string of women-led protests against a top court ruling restricting abortion.(AP Photo/Agata Grzybowska)

Amnesty ‘horrified’ at force used against Polish protesters

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In this photo taken on Saturday Nov. 14, 2020. Brig. Gen. Ahmed Taiwo, Commander of the 81 Military Intelligence Brigade, pauses as he speaks to a judicial committee, in Lagos Nigeria. Nigeria's army has said after weeks of denial that its troop did fire shots into the air to disperse a large crowd at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos where several peaceful protesters were killed late in October. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

Nigerian army admits shooting in air at deadly protest

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

A health care worker holds the hand of a resident at the CHC nursing home in Landenne, Belgium, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Report: Belgian nursing homes failed patients amid pandemic

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

A health care worker holds the hand of a resident at the CHC nursing home in Landenne, Belgium, Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2020. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Report: Care homes policies violated human rights in Belgium

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

Women prepare traditional Ethiopian coffee at street-side coffee stall in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Tensions over the deadly conflict in Ethiopia are spreading well beyond its cut-off northern Tigray region, as the federal government said some 150 suspected &quot;operatives&quot; accused of seeking to &quot;strike fear and terror&quot; throughout the country had been detained. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

As Ethiopia’s conflict rages, ethnic targeting turns deadly

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

Rights group asks Pakistan to unveil whereabouts of activist

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Amnesty International says survivors of a rebel massacre in Ethiopia on Sunday have counted 54 bodie

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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 23, 2020 file photo, people drive past burnt toll gates with anti police slogans sprayed across, in Lagos. Nigeria's army has on Tuesday, Oct. 27 admitted its soldiers were deployed at the Lekki Toll Plaza in Lagos where live rounds were fired last week, killing several peaceful protesters prompting global outrage. At least 10 protesters were killed in the Lekki plaza shooting on Oct. 20, according to Amnesty International.(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, file)

Nigeria’s army admits its soldiers were at Lagos shootings

By SAM OLUKOYA - Associated Press

A supporter of the ruling Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) party joins others to demonstrate against the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) party and to block the visit of their leader, in the streets of Kankan, Guinea Sunday, Oct. 11, 2020. The stage is set for Oct. 18 presidential elections pitting incumbent President Alpha Conde, 82, who is bidding for a third term, against opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who was previously defeated by Conde in both the 2010 and 2015 elections. (AP Photo/Sadak Souici)

Guinea’s president, 82, seeks to prolong rule in Sunday vote

By BOUBACAR DIALLO - Associated Press

Tanzania intensifies repression ahead of polls, says report

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2020 file photo, Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrives at Buckingham Palace for a reception to mark the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London. A global watchdog and human rights lawyers on Friday, Oct. 2, 2020, say that Egyptian authorities have arrested hundreds of people in their effort to clamp down on a spate of small but exceptionally rare protests across the country. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP, File )

Amnesty: Hundreds detained as Egyptian police quash protests

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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 22, 2017 file photo, Ethiopian Zeynu Abebe, 19, sits in between two others upon his arrival after being deported from Saudi Arabia, at the airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. A new report released Friday, Sept. 2, 2020 by Amnesty International describes widespread abuses and squalid detention conditions facing thousands of migrants from Ethiopia in Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopian migrants held in Saudi Arabia call it ‘hellish’

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2020 file photo, migrants of different nationalities rest on board the Spanish NGO Open Arms vessel, after being rescued as they were trying to flee Libya on board a precarious wooden boat, in the Central Mediterranean Sea. Amnesty International said Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, that thousands of Europe-bound migrants who were intercepted and returned to Libyan shores this year were forcefully disappeared after they were taken of detention centers run by militias allied with the U.N.-supported government in the capital, Tripoli. The report also said that rival authorities in eastern Libya forcibly expelled serval thousands “without due process or the opportunity to challenge their deportation.” (AP Photo/Santi Palacios, File)

Amnesty: Migrants face ‘vicious cycle of cruelty’ in Libya

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

This image distributed online by the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) and provided by SITE Intelligence Group shows ISCAP fighters and weapons following clashes with Mozambican government troops on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, near Mocimboa da Praia, in northern Mozambique. The stinging success of Mozambique's Islamic extremist rebels in seizing and holding the northern port city signals to the government, neighboring countries and the world that Africa has yet another insurgency hotspot. Writing in Arabic reads &quot;Blessings of God are on the soldiers of the caliphate after their attack on the Mozambican army near the city of Mocimboa da Praia&quot;. (SITE Intelligence Group via AP)

Mozambique accused of abuses in its fight against extremists

By TOM BOWKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 30, 2020 file photo, paramedic coordinator Oscar Becerril decontaminates fellow paramedic Cesar Avila after going out on a night call to pick up a COVID-19 patient, at their base Troya in Iztapalapa, a Mexico City borough. Amnesty International said in a new report issued Wednesday, Sept. 2, that Mexico has the highest COVID-19 death toll among health workers in the world, with the country's 1,320 confirmed deaths surpassing the United States, the U.K. and Brazil. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte, File)

Report: Mexico leads in health worker deaths from COVID-19

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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo, a shop burns after it was set on fire by a mob in New Delhi, India. Indian police violated human rights during deadly religious riots in New Delhi earlier this year, Amnesty International said in a report released Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. It said police beat protesters, tortured detainees and in some cases took part in riots with Hindu mobs. Authorities say more than 50 people were killed when clashes broke out between Hindus and Muslims over a controversial citizenship law in February in the worst rioting in the Indian capital in decades. (AP Photo)

Amnesty says India police violated rights in religious riots

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 4, 2020 file photo, Fayez Sarraj, the head of Libya's internationally-recognized government, speaks at a joint news conference with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in Ankara, Turkey. Libya’s U.N.-supported government Friday, Aug. 21, 2020, announced a cease-fire across the oil-rich country and called for demilitarizing the strategic city of Sirte, which is controlled by rival forces. (Turkish Presidency via AP, Pool)

Rights group urges release of abducted Libyan protesters

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press