Secretary Clinton Echoes Human Rights Organization's Message to "Speak out and Speak up for Those Unable to Use Their Own Voices"

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Human Rights Organization Held ‘Shadow Summit’ on the Important Role of Afghanistan Women in the Future of their Country

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Vienna Colucci, Amnesty International USA's (AIUSA) senior policy advisor, issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to consider AIUSA and other groups have a right to challenge the 2008 FISA Amendments Act:

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Six journalists have been killed in less than a month in Mexico, highlighting the authorities? ongoing failure to uphold freedom of expression by protecting media workers from threats and violence for carrying out their work.

On Friday, the mutilated body of experienced crime reporter Marco Antonio Ávila García, aged 39, was found stuffed in a garbage bag on a roadside in the north-western state of Sonora. The previous day he had been abducted from a car wash in Ciudad Obregón, where he lived and worked for two newspapers.
 

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A prominent Lebanese cleric opposed to the Syrian government and another man travelling with him have been shot dead at a checkpoint in northern Lebanon, prompting Amnesty International to urge the Lebanese authorities to launch an independent investigation rather than one carried out by the army or other security forces.

Sheikh Ahmad Abdel-Wahed, a critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, and Muhammad Hussein Merheb were shot dead on Sunday near a checkpoint in Kouaikhat in the northern Akkar region.

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The Ukrainian authorities should take action to protect the rights of LGBT people and ensure they are able to exercise their human rights without fear of attacks, Amnesty International said today after the first-ever pride parade had to be cancelled on Sunday.

Police advised pride organizers to abandon the march just 30 minutes before it was due to start. They claimed 500 ultra-right football hooligans were en route to the rally point with the intention of preventing the march from going ahead.

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A prominent journalist has told Amnesty International how Syrian government forces tortured and detained him in deplorable conditions before deporting him to Jordan on Monday. 

Salameh Kaileh, a 57-year-old Jordanian national of Palestinian descent, has lived and worked in the Syrian capital Damascus since 1981.

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The Sudanese authorities must halt the ongoing harassment of independent media, Amnesty International said after a prominent journalist was re-arrested and copies of a national newspaper seized in Khartoum on Tuesday.

Faisal Mohammed Saleh, a columnist with several national newspapers who has reported in 2011 on the alleged rape of an activist by National Security Service (NSS) agents, is currently being held by the NSS.

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