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Omar al-Shogre says he spent 10 months in Sednaya prison. He says he was arrested at age 17 and was in various Syrian prisons for more than two years before he was sent to Sednaya.

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Former Detainee Describes Atrocities Inside Syrian Prison

6:11pm February 09, 2017

A report by Amnesty International says the Syrian government committed mass murder in a prison outside Damascus. Omar al-Shogre, a former prisoner who appears in the report, describes what he endured.

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Amnesty International Says Russian Officials Have Sealed Off Its Moscow Office

4:42pm November 02, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

When staffers arrived for work, they found a seal over the door declaring that they were not allowed to enter without a city official. Amnesty calls it "an unwelcome surprise."

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Egypt Freezes Assets Of 5 Prominent Human Rights Defenders

4:53pm September 17, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

These human rights defenders are accused of using foreign funding to destabilize the country – while they say they were simply carrying out normal human rights work. It's part of an ongoing crackdown.

Amnesty International interviewed former Saydnaya detainees and then used architectural and acoustic modeling to reconstruct the architecture of the prison. The interview techniques were developed by Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of Lond

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Amnesty International: Over 17,000 People Have Died In Syrian Detention Centers

3:37pm August 18, 2016

by Alison Meuse

A newly published report from the human rights group cites horrific conditions in detention facilities operated by Syria's state security branches.

Detained Turkish soldiers who allegedly took part in a military coup arrive with their hands bound behind their backs at the Istanbul Justice Palace on Wednesday following the failed military coup attempt.

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Amnesty International: After Turkey's Failed Coup, Some Detainees Are Tortured, Raped

10:19am July 25, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

Turkey has detained more than 10,000 people in the wake of a failed coup attempt. Amnesty International reports that new evidence of torture may be just a snapshot of the abuses happening now.

Relatives of detained prisoners, who claim their loved ones have been forcibly disappeared, protest and demand the release of their relatives in May in front of the Journalist's Syndicate building, in Cairo.

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Egyptian Authorities Disappear 3-4 People Daily, Amnesty International Says

5:46pm July 13, 2016

by Merrit Kennedy

"All I wanted to know was whether my son was dead or alive," the father of one victim told Amnesty International. Enforced disappearance has become increasingly common in the last year in Egypt.

In February, Amnesty International found human remains in an open field where the victims who died in the shipping container were reportedly dumped.

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South Sudan Soldiers Suffocated 60-Plus Men And Boys, Report Says

5:11pm March 10, 2016

by Jason Beaubien

The massacre reportedly occurred at a church compound, where the victims were forced into a shipping container. Amnesty International is calling it a "war crime."

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'Ghost Protest' In Seoul Uses Holograms, Not People

5:18pm February 24, 2016

by Haeryun Kang

The protest, organized by Amnesty International, featured virtual demonstrators. But concerns about freedom of speech and assembly in South Korea are real.

Amnesty International cross-referenced video footage and satellite imagery to determine the exact location of an apparent mass grave in Burundi.

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Satellite Images Indicate Mass Graves In Burundi, Amnesty Says

5:13pm January 28, 2016

by Camila Domonoske

Security forces killed scores of people in Burundi in December. Now Amnesty International says images suggest that victims were buried in mass graves, possibly to cover up the extent of the killings.

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Amnesty Report Finds ISIS Is Armed With Weapons From U.S., Other Countries

7:40pm December 08, 2015

by Laura Wagner

Decades of poorly regulated arms trading have provided ISIS with "a large and lethal arsenal," Amnesty International says in a new report.