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Indian Consul General Mohammed Noor Rahman Sheikh addressing community leaders and volunteers in Jeddah on Saturday. — SG photo

Indian missions to set up help desks for amnesty seekers

Samah Hadid, Deputy director of Amnesty’s Beirut office

Amnesty: Houthis recruit fighters as young as 15

The Amnesty report said an average of 20-50 people were hanged each week at the Sednaya military prison north of Damascus. Between 5,000 and 13,000 people were executed at Sednaya in the four years after Syria’s popular uprising descended into civil war, it said.

Reveal the truth about executions, Amnesty tells Assad

A handout image released on Tuesday by Amnesty International shows the military-run Saydnaya prison, one of Syria’s largest detention centers located 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of Damascus, in two distinct satellite pictures, one taken on March 3, 2010 (L) and the other of the same taken on September 18, 2016. — AFP

Assad regime hanged 13,000 in Syria ‘slaughterhouse’: Amnesty

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Amnesty: Draconian EU anti-terror laws target Muslims

Labor Minister Issa Bin Saad Al-Jafali Al-Nuaimi speaks during a press conference in Doha on Monday to announce the end to Qatar’s “kafala” sponsorship law for migrant workers. Qatar formally announced the end of its “kafala” system. — AFP

Qatar rejects Amnesty’s claim on its new labor law

Migrants gather at the Search and Follow Up Department in the Qatari capital Doha earlier this month.— AFP

Qatar’s ‘illegals’ scramble to leave under amnesty

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Iran-trained militias join campaign on Mosul, flying Shiite flags

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‘Australia-bound refugees driven to suicide on Nauru’

An Iraqi Yazidi refugee woman boils water to wash clothes at the municipality-run camp for refugees and migrants of Kara Tepe on the island of Lesbos, Greece. — Reuters

World is failing former Yazidi sex slaves: Amnesty

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Rights group slams Hungary’s migrant abuse ahead of vote

A woman walks past a banner displayed in support of US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in this file photo. — AFP

Rights organizations push for Snowden amnesty after film

Ando Elias Tareq, a Yezidi from Sinjar in Iraq stands behind his daughter outside the Samos hotspot where they live. Tareq still wants to believe that he will continue his journey: “We try to go to Germany or the Netherlands to be safe.” — AFP

Amnesty condemns detention of Yazidi woman in Iraqi Kurdistan

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks at the government offices in Sydney in this file photo. — AP

Is Australia’s migrant policy right because it works?

In this March 25, 2016, file photo, a rocket is fired from a rocket launcher outside Makhmour, about 75 km (47 miles) east of Mosul, Iraq. — AP

2 years of anti-Daesh air strikes have redrawn the Iraqi map

King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center

Saudi-led coalition denies blockading Yemeni territories

Prisoner of conscience Saeed Hosseinzadeh, a children’s rights activist sentenced to five years in prison for his peaceful activism. — Amnesty International

Iranian jails withholding prisoners’ medical care: Amnesty

An Afghan family takes a meal at their temporary home in a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday. — AP

Number of Afghans fleeing war doubles to 1.2m: Amnesty

Amnesty says 1.2 million Afghans internally displaced by war

Amnesty says 1.2 million Afghans internally displaced by war

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