In this submission, Amnesty International raises concern about the ongoing crackdown on the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly; arbitrary detention and unfair trials; enforced disappearance and torture and other ill-treatment; violations to the rights to freedom of religion or belief and the persecution of ethnic and linguistic minorities; LGBTI people’s rights; violence and discrimination against women and girls; impunity for crimes under international law, including the ongoing crimes against humanity relating to the mass enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions of 1988; and the ongoing use of the death penalty.
Index Number: MDE 13/8032/2024