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Riccardo Noury has been the spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy since 2003, an organization for the defense of human rights he has been part of since 1980. He oversees the Italian edition of Amnesty International's annual report. Noury runs two blogs, one on Corriere della Sera and another on Il Fatto Quotidiano, and contributes to Articolo 21, Focus on Africa, and Pressenza.
He is the author of “Non sopportiamo la tortura” (Rizzoli Libri Illustrati, 2001), “Poesie da Guantánamo” (2007), “La testa altrove” (Infinito Edizioni, 2020), “La stessa lotta, la stessa ragione” (People Pub, 2020), “Molla chi boia. La lenta fine della pena di morte negli Usa” (Infinito Edizioni, 2022), and “Qatar 2022. I Mondiali dello sfruttamento” (Infinito Edizioni, 2022).
He co-authored “Un errore capitale” (Edizioni Cultura della Pace, 1998), “Srebrenica. La giustizia negata” (Infinito Edizioni, 2015), and “Giustizia senza confini. Crimini internazionali e lotta all’impunità” (People Pub, 2023). He also edited “I dimenticati. Coloro che non sono ripartiti dopo la pandemia” (Infinito Edizioni, 2020) and “Le donne di Minsk” (Infinito Edizioni, 2021).
Since 2003, he has been responsible for the Italian edition of Amnesty International’s annual report. Through his blogs, he writes for Corriere della Sera, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Focus on Africa, Articolo 21, and Pressenza. He also collaborates with the newspaper Domani.