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Rights group urges Indonesia to end caning under Islamic law

By EDNA TARIGAN - Associated Press

Players warm up before the English Premier League soccer match between Newcastle and Liverpool at St. James' Park in Newcastle, England, Sunday, July 26, 2020. (Laurence Griffiths, Pool via AP)

Saudis’ Newcastle bid ends after piracy, human rights issues

By ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Group: Egypt executes 7 convicted of killing police officer

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

FILE - NFL football quarterback Colin Kaepernick applauds during W.E.B. Du Bois Medal ceremonies at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. on Oct. 11, 2018. Kaepernick has been condemned by President Donald Trump and others on the right and had not played an NFL game since 2016, when he began kneeling during the National Anthem to protest “a country that oppresses black people and people of color.&quot; But he has appeared in Nike advertisements, been honored by the ACLU and Amnesty International among other organizations and reached an agreement with the Walt Disney Co. for a docuseries about this life. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Everywhere and nowhere: The many layers of ‘cancel culture’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2020 file photo, journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks after a hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, In Casablanca, Morocco. On Sunday, July 12, 2020 the Tel Aviv District Court rejected a request to strip the controversial Israeli spyware firm NSO Group of its export license over the suspected use of the company’s technology in targeting journalists, including Radi, and dissidents worldwide. The case, brought by Amnesty International in January, called on the court to prevent NSO from selling its technology abroad, especially to repressive regimes. The court ruled that Amnesty’s attorneys did not provide sufficient evidence. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Israeli court rejects petition to curb spyware company

By ILAN BEN ZION - Associated Press

Protesters from Amnesty International stage a protest outside a court in Istanbul, Friday, July 3, 2020, where the trial of 11 prominent human rights activists for terror-related charges and adjourned proceedings was continuing. The banner reads in Turkish: 'Justice for Rights Defenders'. The closely-watched case against Amnesty International's former Turkey chairman and 10 other activists heightened concerns about Turkey's treatment of human rights defenders and helped sour Turkey's relations with European nations, notably with Germany. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkey convicts 4 human rights activists of terror charges

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FILE - In this March 5, 2020 file photo, journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks to the media after his hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, In Casablanca, Morocco. Amnesty International says sophisticated telephone surveillance software appears to have been used to spy on journalist-activist Omar Radi in Morocco, in a continuing crackdown on dissent in the North African kingdom. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Moroccan authorities deny using spyware to monitor critics

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FILE - In this March 5, 2020 file photo, journalist and activist Omar Radi speaks to the media after his hearing at the Casablanca Courthouse, In Casablanca, Morocco. Amnesty International says sophisticated telephone surveillance software appears to have been used to spy on journalist-activist Omar Radi in Morocco, in a continuing crackdown on dissent in the North African kingdom. (AP Photo/Abdeljalil Bounhar, File)

Amnesty says spyware used to monitor critics in Morocco

By AMIRA EL-MASAITI - Associated Press

Qatar World Cup stadium workers struggle to secure salaries

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FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 file photo, Ethiopian soldiers try to stop protesters in Bishoftu, during a declared state of emergency, in the Oromia region of Ethiopia. A new report by the rights group Amnesty International issued Friday, May 29, 2020 accuses Ethiopia's security forces of extrajudicial killings and mass detentions in the restive Oromia region even as the country's reformist prime minister was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo, File)

New report alleges killings, mass detentions in Ethiopia

By ELIAS MESERET - Associated Press

Newcastle United's Javier Manquillo, left, and Burnley's Jack Cork battle for the ball during their English Premier League soccer match at St James' Park, Newcastle, England, Saturday, Feb, 29, 2020. (Owen Humphreys/PA via AP)

Newcastle takeover link puts spotlight on Saudi human rights

By STEVE DOUGLAS and ROB HARRIS - Associated Press

Amnesty International says Myanmar must lift repressive laws

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In this picture released by an official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses the nation in a televised speech in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, April 9, 2020. Iran's supreme leader suggested Thursday that mass gatherings in the Islamic Republic may be barred through the holy Muslim fasting month Ramadan amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran’s Khamenei: Mass Ramadan events may stop over virus

By JON GAMBRELL - Associated Press

US again accused of killing civilians in Somalia airstrikes

By CARA ANNA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2015 file photo, a Muslim Brotherhood member waves his hand from a defendants cage in a courtroom in Torah prison, southern Cairo, Egypt. In some cells in Iran, Egypt, Syria and other countries in the Middle East, prisoners are crammed in by the dozens, with little access to hygiene or medical care. So if one infection gets in, the novel coronavirus could run rampant. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Crammed in filthy cells, political prisoners fear infection

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and SARAH EL DEEB and LEE KEATH - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2020, photo, Serbian army soldiers patrol in Belgrade's main pedestrian street, in Serbia. Since declaring nationwide state of emergency Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has suspended parliament, giving him widespread powers such as closing borders and introducing a 12-hour curfew. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Dismantling democracy? Virus used as excuse to quell dissent

By Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

This Oct. 9, 2003, photo shows soldiers from the U.S. Army's 720th Military Police Battalion watching as a minesweeper looks for weapons in a hole they dug during a raid on a farmland just outside Tikrit, Iraq. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Groups oppose Pentagon’s new land-mine policy

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Mucella Yapici, one of defendants, celebrates after a court acquitted nine leading Turkish civil society activists of terrorism-related charges related to anti-government protests, including an entrepreneur known for philanthropy who has been jailed for more than two years, in Silivri, outside Istanbul, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Turkish philanthropist detained in new case after acquittal

By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, photo, a Saudi man carries his coffee pot as he walks past a banner showing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, outside a mall in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Human rights organization Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia has used a special anti-terrorism court as &quot;a weapon of repression&quot; to imprison peaceful critics, dissidents, activists, journalists, clerics and members of the kingdom's minority Muslim Shiites, including some who were sentenced to death and executed. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Amnesty finds Saudi anti-terror court a weapon of repression

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

Liberal watchdog group hires Amnesty director as new CEO

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