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. 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

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 Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said.

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Rights groups, including Amnesty International, say there is evidence the army is disproportionately responsible for the abuses.

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Amnesty International has raised concerns over what it believes is a persistent pattern of impunity in Ethiopia's army.

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According to research conducted by his family and Amnesty International, he was being held by the Venezuelan authorities.

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Amnesty International says it has found evidence of weapons manufactured in Serbia, Russia, China, Turkey, Yemen and UAE being used in Sudan.

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