and people who wrote critical commentaries were regularly sentenced to prison terms, often under grim conditions, by dicta- torships of all stripes. Amnesty International's founding mission was the defense of what were called “prisoners of conscience,” and they ranged from dissidents and Jewish refuseniks in the So- viet

here they emerged from a door marked “authorized personnel only” shortly before 5 PM. The room was packed with representatives of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Wikileaks and other Moscow-based activist groups. They had been invited the previous day by an emails signed “Edward Snowden” instructing then to go

il Society In 2016, the New York Times reported about pressure on independent Chinese-language media in Canada.” In January 2018, a coalition led by Amnesty International submitted a confidential report to the Canadian government detailing harassment and digital disinformation campaigns and direct threats against Uyghu

your proposal. You can finalize the letter as it suits you. We strongly recommend to wait Wednesday or Tuesday this week before sending the letter as Amnesty International will issue on Wednesday 24" February its worldwide report on human right situation. It is highly probable that major statement will be made on Mr. Wa

your proposal. You can finalize the letter as it suits you. We strongly recommend to wait Wednesday or Tuesday this week before sending the letter as Amnesty International will issue on Wednesday 24 February Wade case in the report on Senegal, which will give us more input for the letter. Many thanks and best regards. E

nd people are now said to have been HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030082 --- PAGE BREAK --- 24 detained by elite security forces backed by the army. According to Amnesty International, detainees have been beaten with sticks and cables, and sometimes deprived of food. Unlike in Libya there are no NATO forces to protect Syria's citie

ceration" 2008 Prison Journal 88; Appleton and Grover, "The Pros and Cons of Life Without Parole" 2007 47:4 British Journal of Criminology 597-615; Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch The Rest of their Lives: Life without Parole for Child Offenders in the United States, 2005. EFTA00031807 --- PAGE BREAK -