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#EndTheDeathPenalty #CloseGuantanamo #DismantleDeportations #PressFreedom #StopTorture #StopSolitary #WelcomeRefugees #WelcomeAsylumSeekers #RacialJustice #IndigenousJustice #Pride #climatejustice
#EndTheDeathPenalty #CloseGuantanamo #DismantleDeportations #PressFreedom #StopTorture #StopSolitary #WelcomeRefugees #WelcomeAsylumSeekers #RacialJustice #IndigenousJustice #Pride #climatejustice
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Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.
New Report Highlights the 'Fatal Flaws' Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions
The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.
www.texasobserver.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Our new report highlights how wrongful convictions are a common feature of the death penalty. Black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted and executed despite their innocence.
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It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Race, and Wrongful Convictions | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s time to abolish the death penalty for good.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
Read our new report, Fatal Flaws: Innocence, Death, and Wrongful Convictions in full.
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I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
At 17, She Gave Up Her Son. Sixty Years Later, She Found Him on Death Row.
Richard Randolph, now Malik Abdul-Sajjad, is scheduled to die tonight. His biological mother will never get a chance to meet him.
theintercept.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I wrote about the man Florida plans to kill tonight and how the death penalty impacts people in ways we might never imagine.
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The deadliest wait: five women on death row www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @rdunhamdp.bsky.social
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The deadliest wait: five women on death row www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @rdunhamdp.bsky.social
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Burkina Faso: Plans to reinstate death penalty must be stopped
Burkina Faso: Plans to reinstate death penalty must be stopped
5 December 2025
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December 5, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Burkina Faso: Plans to reinstate death penalty must be stopped
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Benham Satah, friend of @amnesty.org & survivor of Australia's inhumane offshore detention system came to Brussels to speak to EU politicians and civil society about why the EU must not follow suit with similar cruel & unlawful offshoring plans.
December 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Benham Satah, friend of @amnesty.org & survivor of Australia's inhumane offshore detention system came to Brussels to speak to EU politicians and civil society about why the EU must not follow suit with similar cruel & unlawful offshoring plans.
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Next Monday EU Foreign Ministers discuss DRC as violence escalates.
This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23.
Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced.
The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.
This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23.
Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced.
The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.
December 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Next Monday EU Foreign Ministers discuss DRC as violence escalates.
This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23.
Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced.
The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.
This week Uvira, 2nd largest town in South Kivu, fell to M23.
Civilians are being killed, injured, displaced.
The EU & member states must act with an urgency to match the seriousness of this ongoing conflict.
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Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer is lobbying Europe to join him in watering down the ECHR. This illiberalism will harm us all | Steve Valdez-Symonds
The prime minister and his counterpart in Denmark want a concerted effort to weaken human rights across Europe. This isn’t pragmatism – it’s cruelty, says Steve Valdez-Symonds, refugee and migrant rig...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Human rights were built for hard times, not rewrites when it suits the Government.
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Pushing to water down the European Convention on Human Rights on International Human Rights Day is a moral retreat, not a solution.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We’re back with another year of #Write4Rights!
This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
December 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We’re back with another year of #Write4Rights!
This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
This International Human Rights Day, join #W4R25, the world’s biggest human rights event where hundreds of thousands of people around the world come together to protect the rights of others: amn.st/633227f5xC ✍️
Please join us!!
September 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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September 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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California's Longest-Serving Death Row Man Alleges Racial Bias in Sentencing - Davis Vanguard
Douglas "Chief" Stankewitz, California's longest-serving individual on death row, is seeking relief under the California Racial Justice Act, arguing that racial bias tainted his conviction and sentenc...
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July 29, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
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Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
@wtiusa.bsky.social @innocenceproject.bsky.social @amnesty.org @jews4abolition.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social
VANGUARD INVESTIGATION: Flawed Forensics and Unanswered Questions in Kevin Cooper Case - Davis Vanguard
Kevin Cooper's legal team argues that the state's review of the DNA evidence used to convict him of the 1983 Chino Hills murders was not a rigorous investigation, and that the chain of custody of the ...
davisvanguard.org
July 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
@wtiusa.bsky.social @innocenceproject.bsky.social @amnesty.org @jews4abolition.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social
Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
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Wish we were in San Diego to join @haitianbridge.bsky.social @alotrolado-org.bsky.social @amnesty.org and community!
May 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wish we were in San Diego to join @haitianbridge.bsky.social @alotrolado-org.bsky.social @amnesty.org and community!
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The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that no person or group is targeted on the basis of their sect.
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Massacres of civilians in Syria must be investigated as war crimes
The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that no person or group is targeted on the basis of their sect, Amnesty International said today.
amn.st
April 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The Syrian government must ensure that the perpetrators of a wave of mass killings targeting Alawite civilians in coastal areas are held accountable and take immediate steps to ensure that no person or group is targeted on the basis of their sect.
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🚨 Kenya's high court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear and consider the merits of a case, in which Meta is accused of promoting content that led to ethnic violence and killings in Ethiopia.
Kenya: Meta can be sued in Kenya for role in Ethiopia conflict
Kenya High Court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear case against Meta over its role in Ethiopia conflict.
amn.st
April 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🚨 Kenya's high court has ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear and consider the merits of a case, in which Meta is accused of promoting content that led to ethnic violence and killings in Ethiopia.
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The authorities in Iran must halt the gruesome plan to amputate the fingers of tortured prisoners.
Amputation constitutes torture, which is a crime under international law and is a flagrant and abhorrent assault on human dignity.
This spectacle of brutality must be ended.
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Amputation constitutes torture, which is a crime under international law and is a flagrant and abhorrent assault on human dignity.
This spectacle of brutality must be ended.
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Iran: Authorities must halt gruesome plan to amputate fingers of tortured prisoners within days
The Iranian authorities are preparing to inflict the cruel and irreversible punishment of finger amputation against three prisoners as early as 11 April, following their torture-tainted convictions in unfair trials, Amnesty International warned today.
amn.st
April 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The authorities in Iran must halt the gruesome plan to amputate the fingers of tortured prisoners.
Amputation constitutes torture, which is a crime under international law and is a flagrant and abhorrent assault on human dignity.
This spectacle of brutality must be ended.
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Amputation constitutes torture, which is a crime under international law and is a flagrant and abhorrent assault on human dignity.
This spectacle of brutality must be ended.
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We @amnesty.org recorded over 1500 executions across 15 countries in 2024, the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 2015. Yet our latest report finds that the use of the death penalty has been decreasing globally 👇
Global: Recorded executions hit their highest figure since 2015
Over 1,500 people were executed across 15 countries in 2024
amn.st
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We @amnesty.org recorded over 1500 executions across 15 countries in 2024, the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 2015. Yet our latest report finds that the use of the death penalty has been decreasing globally 👇
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In 2024, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 91% of all recorded executions, and were among the five countries with the highest number of executions.
Our latest death penalty report, out now: http://amn.st/63320FqDV8
Our latest death penalty report, out now: http://amn.st/63320FqDV8
April 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
In 2024, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia accounted for 91% of all recorded executions, and were among the five countries with the highest number of executions.
Our latest death penalty report, out now: http://amn.st/63320FqDV8
Our latest death penalty report, out now: http://amn.st/63320FqDV8
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While X cracks down on parody accounts, Big Tech platforms are failing to protect users from online violence and abuse. Social media algorithms actively amplify and escalate violent and hateful content to generate likes and shares, sometimes with dangerous consequences.
April 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
While X cracks down on parody accounts, Big Tech platforms are failing to protect users from online violence and abuse. Social media algorithms actively amplify and escalate violent and hateful content to generate likes and shares, sometimes with dangerous consequences.
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What can the EU do?
@amnesty.org and 12 others urge the EU to redouble action for human rights:
👉Condemn violations committed by all warring parties
👉Protect civilians
👉Champion justice and accountability
👉Support Sudanese civilians and rights defenders
www.amnesty.eu/news/sudan-t...
@amnesty.org and 12 others urge the EU to redouble action for human rights:
👉Condemn violations committed by all warring parties
👉Protect civilians
👉Champion justice and accountability
👉Support Sudanese civilians and rights defenders
www.amnesty.eu/news/sudan-t...
Sudan: Two years of conflict in Sudan marred by global failure to protect civilians
Two years after the start of the devastating conflict in Sudan, Amnesty International and 12 civil society organizations call on the EU and other international actors to act meaningfully to protect ci...
www.amnesty.eu
April 10, 2025 at 9:57 AM
What can the EU do?
@amnesty.org and 12 others urge the EU to redouble action for human rights:
👉Condemn violations committed by all warring parties
👉Protect civilians
👉Champion justice and accountability
👉Support Sudanese civilians and rights defenders
www.amnesty.eu/news/sudan-t...
@amnesty.org and 12 others urge the EU to redouble action for human rights:
👉Condemn violations committed by all warring parties
👉Protect civilians
👉Champion justice and accountability
👉Support Sudanese civilians and rights defenders
www.amnesty.eu/news/sudan-t...
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The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk.
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Yemen: US abrupt and irresponsible aid cuts put millions at risk
The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk, Amnesty International said today.
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April 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The United States government’s abrupt and irresponsible termination of foreign assistance is putting the health and human rights of millions of people in Yemen who depend on humanitarian aid at risk.
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Ahmad Manasra’s release today is a huge relief for him and for his family, but nothing can undo the years of injustice, abuse, trauma and ill-treatment he endured behind bars.
April 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Ahmad Manasra’s release today is a huge relief for him and for his family, but nothing can undo the years of injustice, abuse, trauma and ill-treatment he endured behind bars.
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A reminder.
Transgender people's rights are human rights.
Transgender people's rights are human rights.
April 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
A reminder.
Transgender people's rights are human rights.
Transgender people's rights are human rights.