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Amnesty International
noun
- an independent worldwide organization working against human-rights violations and for the release of persons imprisoned for political or religious dissent; Nobel Peace Prize 1977. : AI, A.I.
Amnesty International
noun
- an international organization founded in Britain in 1961 that works to secure the release of people imprisoned for their beliefs, to ban the use of torture, and to abolish the death penalty AI
Amnesty International
- An international organization that works for the release of political prisoners who have neither committed nor advocated violence. It also strives to improve the standards of treatment for prisoners and detainees.
Example Sentences
Several rights groups, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have urged the junta to allow aid workers immediate access to these areas.
"These shocking and inhumane executions of Canadian citizens by Chinese authorities should be a wake-up call for Canada," said Ketty Nivyabandi from Amnesty International Canada.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International USA said the deportations were "yet another example of the Trump administration's racist targeting" of Venezuelans "based on sweeping claims of gang affiliation".
The Council of Europe rights watchdog has branded him a "political prisoner," while Amnesty International has called his treatment an "apparent political revenge".
Indeed, responses to exercise of the democratic right to protest have, especially in the case of student-led demonstrations against the U.S.-funded siege and bombardment of Gaza, been characterized by excessive use of police force that has been criticized by the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the U.N.
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