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Accompanied by relatives of people killed by police across the Americas, Amnesty International today delivered 64,331 letters and signatures to the office of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness as part of a campaign that has generated 500,000 actions urging his government to protect victims' families from pervasive police intimidation and guarantee their access to justice.
Tens of thousands of activists from as far afield as Sweden, Taiwan and Côte d'Ivoire have sent a clear message to Prime Minister Holness that the deeply troubling wave of killings by Jamaican police cannot continue to go unpunished, said Erika Guevara-Rosas, director of Amnesty International in the Americas.
The Jamaican government must bolster the capacity of the Special Coroner's Court to deal with killings by police and address the barrage of structural obstacles and the...