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The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of Amnesty International in Switzerland offered an excellent opportunity to launch the Saudi Arabia photo petition on 26 June 2009.

The sustained assault on human rights in the name of security and fighting terrorism undertaken by the Saudi Arabian authorities is shocking, especially in view of this country’s significant power and influence on the political and economic world stage, playing a leading role in the Arab and Islamic worlds. We want to lift the veil and expose the human rights abuses.

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It was a VERY cold afternoon in central Bern on Saturday, January 10, when 30 activists took turns kneeling in one of the gray prisoner cages; to representing one of the Gitmo prisoners in orange chained to a column at the entrance to the railway station, holding a sign with name and fate of selected prisoners; to approaching people and asking them to sign our postcard to Obama and a letter taking up the recent urgent action for Omar Khadr.

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