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Rights groups call on Egypt authorities to free journalist

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Shamini Darshni Kalimuthu, Executive Director of Amnesty International Malaysia, seeks during a press conference in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019. Amnesty International has urged Malaysia to abolish the death penalty, saying unfair trials and the use of harsh treatment to obtain confessions put people at risk of execution. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Amnesty International urges Malaysia to end death penalty

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FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 file photo, women and girls walk back after getting food in Bentiu, a 38 kilometers (24 miles) journey using a path through the bush, for fear of being attacked on the main road, near Nhialdu in South Sudan. South Sudan's government is failing to provide justice for victims of atrocities committed during the country's five-year civil war, Amnesty International said in a new report Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, File)

Report says South Sudan fails to provide war victims justice

By SAM MEDNICK - Associated Press

3 associated with US-based Iran activist reportedly detained

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FILE -- In this Jan. 16, 2019 file photo Juventus' Cristiano Ronaldo, left, and Juventus' Douglas Costa receive the winner medals end of the Italian Super Cup final soccer match between AC Milan and Juventus at King Abdullah stadium in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. Amnesty International and the journalists union for Italian state TV RAI have written a joint letter to the presidents of Juventus and Lazio asking the clubs not to the play the Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia due to human rights abuses. (AP Photo)

Protests renewed against Italian Super Cup in Saudi Arabia

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Smoke rises from a rainforest in Altamira, Para state, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Wednesday that Latin America's Amazon countries will meet in September to discuss both protecting and developing the rainforest region, which has been hit by weeks of devastating fires.(AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Brazil’s Bolsonaro wants to discuss Amazon fires at UN

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Amnesty urges Sudan’s military to extradite ousted al-Bashir

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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. Amnesty International said Wednesday, July 31, 2019, that 130 detainees in a notorious Egyptian prison have been on hunger strike for more than six weeks to protest what it calls &quot;cruel and inhumane detention conditions.&quot; The detainees are being held at a Cairo prison known as the Scorpion, part of Torah prison, where a number of political figures have been jailed over the course of a sweeping crackdown on dissent in recent years. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)

Rights group says prisoners go on hunger strike in Egypt

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In this April 19, 2018, photo, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte addresses troops during the turnover-of-command ceremony for the new chief of the Philippine National Police General Oscar Albayalde succeeding General Ronald &quot;Bato&quot; Dela Rosa at Camp Crame in suburban Quezon city northeast of Manila, Philippines. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Amnesty International slams Philippines over Duterte’s drug crackdown

By Moss Brennan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 29, 2018, file photo, seminarians and nuns carry slogans and a mock coffin during a rally in Manila, Philippines, against drug-related killings and martial law. Amnesty International urgently called Monday for international pressure and an immediate U.N. investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's bloody anti-drug crackdown. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

Rights group calls Duterte’s drug war crime against humanity

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Amnesty urges Poland to stop harassing judges, prosecutors

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Sudanese protesters shout slogans, as they march during a protest against the military council, in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, June 27, 2019. The U.S. envoy to Sudan has expressed America's support for the Sudanese protest movement and has called for a civilian-led government amid stalled negotiations between the pro-democracy leaders and the ruling military.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Group urges Sudan to ensure protester safety during rallies

By SAM MAGDY - Associated Press

Amnesty wants impartial probe of Indonesia police violence

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Rights group demands Egyptian juvenile not be executed

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India officials stop Amnesty International event in Kashmir

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FILE - In this May 18, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council that assumed power in Sudan after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir, speaks to journalists in Khartoum, Sudan. Amnesty International said Tuesday, June 11, 2019, that Sudanese paramilitary units, the Rapid Support Forces have continued to commit “war crimes and other serious human rights violations” in the Darfur region including the destruction of entire villages, as well as “unlawful killings and sexual violence.” The RSF grew out of the notorious Janjaweed militias mobilized by al-Bashir during the Darfur conflict in the early 2000s. Dagalo, better known as Hemedti, is an RSF commander. (AP Photo, File)

Amnesty warns war crimes continuing in Sudan’s Darfur

By BASSAM HATOUM and SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

Lebanon telecom authorities order blocking of Grindr

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FILE - In this Sept. 6, 2017, file photo, a Myanmar police officer stands guard at a checkpoint in Shwe Zar village in the northern Rakhine state of Myanmar. Amnesty International, in a report issued Wednesday, May 29, 2019, says it has found new evidence of war crimes and human rights violations in Rakhine State, where the armed forces two years ago carried out a brutal counterinsurgency campaign that drove more than 700,000 members of the Muslim Rohingya minority to flee across the border to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/File)

Amnesty Int’l charges Myanmar military with new abuses

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FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 file photo Arsenal's Henrikh Mkhitaryan, left, duels for the ball with Bate's Aleksandar Filipovic during the Europa League round of 32 first leg soccer match between Bate and Arsenal at the Borisov-Arena in Borisov, Belarus. The choice of Baku as host of the Europa League final provided Arsenal with further grounds for discontent Tuesday when Mkhitaryan, one of the team's most talented players, pulled out of the game for political reasons. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)

Azerbaijan’s Europa League final complex for teams, fans

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This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense group known as the White Helmets, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense workers carrying a victim after a deadly airstrike hit a market killing several people in the village of Ras el-Ain, in the northwestern province of Idlib, Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2019. Opposition activists say government forces have intensified their bombardment of rebel-held towns and villages in northwestern Syria. (Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets via AP)

Aid groups say conditions in northwest Syria at crisis point

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press