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Rise In Egypt Executions Reveals 'Depth Of Human Rights Crisis': Amnesty

Egypt has embarked on an execution spree in recent months, putting scores of people to death. Amnesty International warns that executions in October and November alone were double of those carried out in 2019.

02 December 2020North Africa
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Syria Kurds Free More Than 600 ISIL Fighters As Part Of Amnesty

Released fighters ‘have no blood on their hands’ and have all repented joining ISIL, Syrian Democratic Council says.

16 October 2020Syria
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End Forcible Transfer Of Syrian Refugees From Jordan To 'No-Man’s Land' Desert...

Amnesty International is calling on Jordan to stop transferring Syrian refugees to the Rukban Camp in the desert region of Syria.

17 September 2020Syria
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Algeria: President Announces Amnesty To Thousands Of Prisoners

Algerian president Abdelmadjid Tebboune announces a presidential amnesty to 3,471 prisoners who were arrested during the protests.

06 February 2020North Africa
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Amnesty: Turkey Deporting Syrians to Planned ‘Safe Zone’

The international human rights organisation Amnesty International has claimed that Turkey is allegedly deporting Syrian refugees to its planned 'safe zone'.

27 October 2019Syria
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The Iraqi judges fighting to reform the system from within

After heavy criticism of trials of suspected Islamic State members, Iraqi judges tell MEE about the difficulties they face and how they are trying to improve the situation.

08 July 2019Iraq
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Lebanon’s interior minister pushes for prison reform amid calls for radical change

The Lebanese Minister of Interior, Raya al-Hassan, announced that her ministry is planning on reforming Lebanon's overcrowded prisons. However, activists say that unless broad, structural reforms to the administration of the prisons are also passed, these reforms will only have a moderate impact.

13 May 2019Middle East
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Playgrounds and hospitals 'deliberately' targeted by Syrian government: Amnesty

Residents of Idlib interviewed by rights group say bombarded civilian areas were not located near military targets

29 March 2019Syria
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Algeria: Amnesty warns against using 'excessive' force ahead of major protests

Amnesty International has warned the Algerian government against the use of excessive force ahead of the massive anti-government protests. Citizens of Algeria have been calling for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to renounce his plans to extend his 20-year presidency.

02 March 2019North Africa
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Daesh destruction of rural Iraq hinders residents’ return: Amnesty

Amnesty reported Daesh fighters burnt or chopped down orchards, sabotaged wells and stole or destroyed vital farming equipment.

14 December 2018Iraq
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Stranded between Syria's frontlines, Afrin's Yazidis yearn for lost homelands

Yazidis who fled Turkish-led assault on northern Syria fear that their identity is being erased in the villages they left behind - and that they may never return home.

09 October 2018Syria
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Assad regime has 'used cluster bombs' in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta

Amnesty International says that at least 10 civilians died in besieged Eastern Ghouta after banned cluster-bombs were used.

01 December 2017
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The price of peace? How Damascus strikes deals with beaten rebels

Numerous reconciliation and de-escalation agreements have been made by the Syrian regime and the rebels, but how are they formed?

06 October 2017
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Rights organizations rally to reveal fate of Syria’s disappeared

Amnesty International launched a campaign urging Syrian authorities and armed groups to reveal the fate of disappeared people.

12 September 2017
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Syria opposition calls for international observers in regime jails

Syria’s opposition on Tuesday demanded international observers be allowed access to regime-run detention centres, after an Amnesty International investigation into...

08 February 2017
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Mosul children 'have seen things no one should see'

Reaching the safety of the camp away from the suicide bombs and airstrikes on the Mosul frontline is not the...

23 December 2016
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