Amnesty International is an organization of people who are fighting injustices and promoting human rights all across the globe. Some of the issues the address are women's right, LGBT rights, prisoners and people at risk, torture, children's rights, censorship and free speech, death penalty, etc. When Amnesty International takes up campaigning for individuals at risk, it becomes known as an Amnesty International case. A case may be an individual person, a group of people or a community of people. Unfortunately, they aren't able to address all the cases they hear about, but they do take on the most "grave" cases. One of the cases i read about on Amnesty's website was about how journalist Ebrima Manneh was arrested in July 2006 by officers believed to be from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), and ever since his
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