Author: Victoria Großmann | Oliver Das Gupta

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Selmin Çalışkan, head of the German section of Amnesty International (photo: dpa/picture-alliance)

Interview with the New Secretary-General of AI Germany

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Arms exports, support for foreign projects that do not meet human rights standards, too much red tape when it comes to Syrian refugees and police brutality in Munich: Selmin Çalışkan, the new Secretary-General of Amnesty International in Germany, is volleying some harsh criticism at the German federal government. An interview by Victoria Großmann and Oliver Das GuptaMore

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