Amnesty International UK will be meeting at Trafalgar Square in London on Saturday 11th February in support of the Global Day of Action. This demonstration for a human rights revolution is a peaceful protest.

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Amnesty International UK is urging the UK police in Northern Ireland and other parts of Britain to undertake a review of their policy of training police from Libya and Bahrain, after the regimes of both countries brutally cracked down against pro democracy protesters.

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Amnesty International, the human rights organisation which operates in Britain as Amnesty International UK is strongly urging the government of Cuba to stop harassing the family members of a human rights activist who died last year whilst on hunger strike.

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Amnesty International has launched a gritty online short film which shows activists preventing a torture victim from any further abuse. The 90 second film, ‘Defy Them’, shows a person being ‘waterboarded’, the method of torture where a captive is held underwater whilst wearing a blindfold. This was said to be used in Guantánamo Bay to make the Al Queda prison’s talk and is a truely horrific act.

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The 10th December 2008 will mark the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). In the UDHR, the United Nations stated in clear and simple terms the rights that belong equally to each and everyone of us. Amnesty International UK campaigns across the world for these rights to be upheld and observed. [...]

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This weekend sees Amnesty International UK‘s Secret Policeman’s Ball 2008, showing in London’s Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 4th October. Here’s a great clip featuring Russell Brand from last years show –   The show will be broadcast on Channel 4 on following night at 5th 9pm, and will feature some of the most cutting edge [...]

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