By Tshidi Leatswe Yesterday, 25 November, was Madalitso* Zulu’s 36th birthday and his third one behind bars at a Zambian Prison. Madalitso, a health professional, did nothing wrong, but is locked up. He is serving a 15-year prison sentence with hard labour simply because he identifies as gay in a country that wants to dictate…
I was always a daredevil. I skipped church and missed school. However, I was smart and during college I enrolled in the Navy, where I was part of the Special Forces. I learnt how to parachute and dive. I loved parachuting, and when I returned home two years later to finish college, I wanted to…
President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi must not ratify the new asylum law approved by parliament, which, if enacted, would further undermine refugee rights in Egypt amid the ongoing crackdown on people seeking protection and safety in the country, Amnesty International said today. On 19 November 2024, Egypt’s parliament approved the country’s first asylum law, which restricts…
Responding to the persistent and widespread use of unlawful force by police in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, after four consecutive nights of protests, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The Georgian authorities must end their violent crackdown, which has inflicted physical, psychological and legal harm on those exercising their…
Amnesty International today submitted a legal filing to the Pre-Trial Judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of several victims’ networks, to request an end to the ICC Prosecutor’s indefinite and unfathomable delay to the start of the court’s investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria. In December 2020, the…
By Mark Dummett OpEd first published in The Diplomat Shortly before midnight on December 2, 1984, a terrible cloud, consisting of tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate (MIC), along with other chemicals, began to leak into the atmosphere from the storage tank of the U.S. multinational corporation Union Carbide Corporation (UCC)’s pesticide plant on…