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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
AI.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
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.
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Elsewhere, Amnesty International said clemency falls "far short of the justice the Ogoni Nine need".
Amnesty International said Kourkouri was subjected to torture and that his trial was "grossly unfair".
Amnesty International said Kourkouri's trial was unfair because he had been denied access to an independently chosen lawyer and his confessions, which were broadcast on Iranian state media, had been forced.
The director of rights group Amnesty International's Kenya branch told the BBC that the death of Mr Ojwang, described as a teacher and blogger, was "very suspicious".
Referring to the circumstances of his arrest, Amnesty International Kenya director Irungu Houghton said it was "quite shocking" that Mr Ojwang was not booked in at the local police station after being detained, but was instead taken on a long journey.
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