Amnesty International

noun

1. 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

1. 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

1. 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

The practice had become commonplace: in 2022, authorities in five states bulldozed 128 structures in just three months "as punishment", a report by Amnesty international shows.

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Natalia Nozadze from Amnesty International told BBC News that since Azerbaijan was announced as the host country for COP29 in November last year it has become harder to oppose the government.

From BBC

Homosexuality is illegal in Saudi Arabia, while Amnesty International has cited the country's "jailing of women's rights activists, suppression of free speech and rampant use of the death penalty".

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French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said.

From BBC

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have both also expressed concern.

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