Amnesty International

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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.

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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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According to Amnesty International, South Africa has one of the most unequal school systems in the world - with a child's outcome very much dependent on their place of birth, wealth and colour of their skin.

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Elsewhere, Amnesty International said clemency falls "far short of the justice the Ogoni Nine need".

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Amnesty International said Kourkouri was subjected to torture and that his trial was "grossly unfair".

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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.

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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".

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