A meeting with a Russian human rights lawyer who had been the subject of an Amnesty Urgent Action campaign allowed the Amnesty co-ordinator of the ongoing campaign to hear how important every letter i

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Booking is open for the next AGM which is on 12 -13 April 2014 at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Warning: This petition is about FGM and may be distressing for some readers.

Further to the earlier posting the following article has been published in the Guardian about how Dimitrii (Dmytro) had been found found bruised and cut outside Kiev reportedly with hands bearing nail

As one of the leading protesters against the government in Ukraine, Dmitrii Bulatov is well known to the authorities.

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