Watch "Getting Out of Gitmo" Tonight on PBS
Tonight (January 27) at 9pm ET PBS will premiere the new Frontline segment “Getting Out of Gitmo,” about the 17 Uighurs illegally detained at Guantanamo. Check out the trailer here. Afterward, be sure...
View ArticleOrganizers of Moldova's Twitter Revolution Remain at Risk
The last ten days have seen massive protests in several countries, including Moldova, where the government is now accusing the organizers of peaceful demonstration on April 6 of inciting the use of...
View ArticleSri Lanka: a question of credibility
If we’re to believe the Sri Lankan military, they’ve killed no civilians during their offensive against the opposition Tamil Tigers in recent months. They claim that the security forces have only...
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Man Sentenced to Death in Saudi Arabia for 'Sorcery'
Right now, ‘Abdul Hamid al-Fakki is facing the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. His crime? Sorcery. ‘Abdul Hamid al-Fakki is a Sudanese man, about 36 years old. He was entrapped by a man who worked for...
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Relief Tempered By Sadness: The World Is Still A Dangerous Place To Be LGBT
© Getty Images It’s been a week of incredible ups and downs for LGBT people around the world. We hardly had time to feel joy for the legalization of same-sex civil unions in Brazil, when we learned...
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Ailing Father Ly Arrested Again
Dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly was paroled for health issues last year © Private By Claudia Vandermade, Southeast Asia Cogroup Chair. Father Nguyen Van Ly, a 64-year-old Catholic priest in...
View ArticleContinued Impunity: Enforced Disappearances in Colombia
In the last two weeks, Francisco Pineda and Everto González, two members of the community council of Caracolí in north-west Colombia, were subjected to enforced disappearance by paramilitaries. They...
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Five Empty Chairs
In October, Amnesty applauded the announcement that the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize would be awarded to three world-changing women—Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian activist Leymah Gbowee...
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What You Can Do NOW to Stop the Abuse of Protestors in Turkey
A protester covers her face during clashes with Turkish police near the prime minister’s office in Istanbul (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images). In Turkey, a major human rights crisis looms. Here is...
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TAKE ACTION: Three Years After the Uprising, Stand #WithSyria
The Syrian uprising started three years ago this week, sparked by the image of some 300 school children in Deraa being dragged to one of Syria’s dark prisons for the “crime” of writing graffiti...
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Whom would you suspect of killing Berta Cáceres?
“Defending human rights in Honduras is a crime. They are criminalizing the right to our [indigenous] identity and sense of self.” -Berta Cáceres, 2013 Gunmen brutally murdered Berta Cáceres,...
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