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Laborers remove scaffolding at the Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, Qatar, about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of Doha, Monday, April 29, 2019. FIFA is under pressure to publish a long-awaited review into compensation for workers who helped deliver the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)

FIFA urged to release compensation review for Qatar World Cup migrant workers

By James Robson - Associated Press

Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

UNESCO urges Cambodia not to forcibly evict residents of Angkor Wat temple complex

By Angela Charlton - 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

Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organized by the World Food Program, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, said Amnesty International in a new report Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The London-based watchdog criticized Taliban authorities saying that since the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021, they have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women

By Rahim Faiez - 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

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

Amnesty urges Egypt to probe forced disappearance of family

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All sides commit abuses in Mozambique conflict, says report

By ANDREW MELDRUM - Associated Press

Tanzania intensifies repression ahead of polls, says report

By TOM ODULA - Associated Press

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

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas heads the Palestinian leadership meeting at his headquarters, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, Pool)

Amnesty slams Palestinians’ freedom of expression arrests

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 19, 2019 file photo, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi speaks during a press conference in Bucharest, Romania. Amnesty International says that journalism in Egypt has effectively become a crime over the past four years, as authorities clamp down on media outlets and muzzle dissent. The London-based rights group said in a report Sunday, May 3, 2020 that as the number of coronavirus infections in Egypt continues to rise, the government is strengthening information controls, instead of upholding transparency during the health crisis. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Amnesty reports chilling details of Egypt press crackdown

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US again accused of killing civilians in Somalia airstrikes

By CARA ANNA - 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

In this Nov. 20, 2019, file photo, people walk past buildings that were burned during recent protests, in Shahriar, Iran, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) southwest of the capital, Tehran. Amnesty International says at least 208 people in Iran have been killed amid protests over sharply rising gasoline prices and a subsequent crackdown by security forces. The country has yet to release any nationwide statistics about the unrest last month. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Iran state TV says ‘rioters’ shot and killed amid protests

By Jon Gambell - Associated Press

Heba Morayef, Amnesty International's Middle East Regional Director, holds a report at a press conference, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2019. Amnesty International says the world community's &quot;chilling complacency toward wide-scale human rights violations&quot; in the Middle and North Africa emboldened governments to commit &quot;appalling&quot; violations last year. The group's annual survey of the human rights situation in the region, released in Beirut on Tuesday, says ongoing crackdowns on dissent and civil society &quot;intensified significantly&quot; in Egypt, Iran and Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Amnesty says impunity emboldens Mideast rights violations

By BASSEM MROUE - Associated Press

In this Nov. 4, 2017 photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. Authorities are using detentions in political indoctrination centers and data-driven surveillance to impose a digital police state in the region of Xinjiang and its Uighurs, a 10-million strong, Turkic-speaking Muslim minority Beijing fears could be influenced by extremism. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Amnesty International slams China for human rights abuses against Muslim ethnic minorities in report

By Dan Boylan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 19, 2017, file photo, an image made from drone video shows damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria. The rights group Amnesty International is enlisting the help of thousands of online activists to expand its investigation into the U.S-led campaign against Islamic State militants that ended the group's presence in the Syrian city of Raqqa but left it in utter devastation. (AP Photo/Gabriel Chaim, File)

Amnesty to expand probe of US-led campaign in Syria’s Raqqa

By SARAH EL DEEB - Associated Press