Amnesty International Local Group 15

03/08/2026

A life on the Line: A call for clemency for Sonny Burton
Time is running out. Sonny Burton faces ex*****on on March 12, despite not firing the fatal shot in the crime for which he was convicted. Join Rabia Chaudry, Sonny's attorney, and faith leaders for a virtual press conference as calls for clemency grow and the clock continues to tick.
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Ein Leben auf dem Spiel: Gnadengesuch für Sonny Burton
Die Zeit läuft ab. Sonny Burton steht am 12. März vor der Hinrichtung, obwohl er nicht den tödlichen Schuss bei dem Verbrechen abgegeben hat, für das er verurteilt wurde. Nehmen Sie an einer virtuellen Pressekonferenz mit Rabia Chaudry, Sonny's Anwältin, und Glaubensführern teil, während die Gnadengesuche zunehmen und die Uhr weiter tickt.

03/06/2026

No Kings 3 happening nationwide on March 28

See you in the streets! https://bit.ly/FightforNoKings28

02/28/2026

02/26/2026

Haitians are essential to the fabric of Massachusetts. Ending TPS would separate families, harm our economy & deplete our workforce. I won’t stand for it.

02/26/2026

Marcelo Gomes da Silva, the Milford teen detained by ICE last year, had high hopes for his visit to Washington, D.C., but was reportedly escorted out of the Capitol chamber after the Department of Homeland Security posted on social media targeting him.

02/26/2026

I covered the genocide of the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the horror of it still haunts me. So I was doubly wounded to hear that a blind, elderly Rohingya man, a survivor of the genocide who settled in Buffalo, NY, was picked up by immigration officials last week -- and ended up dead.

It's a more complicated story but in a nutshell the immigration officers realized that they didn't have any grounds to hold him, so they released him -- in Buffalo in the winter five miles from his home. This is an elderly man who needs a walking stick and can't speak English. He apparently died while trying to walk back to his house.

We don't know exactly what happened yet, but I keep thinking of this blind man who survived a genocide yet did not survive an encounter with American immigration officials. Is this really the kind of country we aspire to be? https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/blind-refugee-abandoned-by-border-patrol-is-dead/?fbclid=IwY2xjawQMt1RleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEedftgY4TBLfD65u2LkHhte3Rfp1ujyuJGK3y3JeygD-BdL3nbE0IJCNSLwLY_aem_QXPTJq0c74jAHNHmCYqkcQ