back then it wasn't illegal to go to syria -- you could get a flight directly from tirana. >> he andher i.s. recruiters went on trial in 2016. altogether they were sentenced to 126 years in prison. of the young albanians that they persuaded to go to syria and iraq, over half are now dead or missing. at the local pub in leshnica, the subject of islamic state is taboo. the men get upset when we try to ask questions. they say they have more important things to worry about. >> our biggest problem is that we don't have jobs. >> the local mayor admits the economy is a problem. but he doesn't believe that was what persuaded so many to join i.s. >> they were good young men. we were all shocked when we heard they'd gone to syria. of course it's true that the economic situation is very bad here. but that wasn't just the case for them, but for everyone who lives here. >> one albanian analyst who has studied this phenomenon tells us the young muslims were specifically targeted to be radicalized. he says the trail leads back to saudi arabia and other countries in the region. >> so what happened w

which is to officially launch the report with holding up the report, and you're woman to join me, tirana and all of you, please, come this way so we get -- so do hold up the reports, please, yeah, for the cameras. so let me just restate for the purpose of those of you who have heard a lot of different messages, let me just recap very quickly, so the main message from our report of 2017 is that the world suffered the terrifying consequences as hate and divisive rhetoric moved into policies and actions, and these consequences have been direct and hugely negative on women, refugees, minorities, those without a voice, but at the same time while governments' mainstream and hateful and divisive politics and attacks on vulnerable people got normalized, the good news is people across the world, ordinary people, particularly youth, stood up to fight for their own freedoms and for the freedoms of others, and we have a huge number of examples to both talk about how governments have been so brazen in their attack on human rights and human values but equally of people standing up across the world. so

and then our third speaker, tirana hassan, director of our crisis work, will be able to speak to amnesty's work on the rohingya as well as the situation in syria and any other crises that have been rising over the last several weeks and the last year. i'd like it might each of you that this launch today is actually part of an embargo effort. the report will not be released until 1201 eastern time so as that you do not live stream, you do not tweet or post online to social media, that you hold your stories until 12"01 tonight. thanks for being here again and i'll head over to salil. >> thank you all for joining us this morning. so when you're ago millions of people, not just in the united states, but across the world, were watching anxiously to see what a trump presidency would yield. after an election campaign of hateful and xenophobic and sexist rhetoric. they were also looking with trepidation across europe where intellectual races in france, netherlands, austria and germany were showcasing some of the rhetoric and the cynical use of fear and hatred. combined with already harsh crackdown

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