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Venezuela: Civil society organizations declare their resounding rejection and demand the repeal of the new registration measure for terrorism and other crimes

The undersigned civil society organizations express a categorical rejection of Administrative Ruling No. 001-2021 for the Unified Registry of Obligated Subjects before the National Office Against Organized Crime and Terrorism Financing. The mandate constitutes a serious violation of international norms for the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms of mandatory compliance for the Venezuelan state.

Date:
20 April 2021
Ref:
AMR 53/4011/2021
  • News
  • Russian Federation
  • Detention

Russia: Transfer of Aleksei Navalny is punishment in the guise of medical treatment

Responding to reports that Aleksei Navalny has been transferred from the penal colony where he is unlawfully imprisoned to a medical ward at another prison, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “Aleksei Navalny’s health has deteriorated rapidly during his time in detention. He is now on hunger strike as the Russian authorities have been denying him an examination by independent doctors of his choice.

Date:
19 April 2021
  • Research
  • Africa
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Congo: On the back of the crisis. Violations of the right to health and repression of economic and social rights defenders in the Republic of Congo

The economic crisis caused by the fall in oil prices, on the one hand, and the COVID-19 pandemic, on the other, has revealed Congo’s deep-rooted problems, in particular the very poor human rights situation. The health sector has been particularly affected by the crisis and its management. Against this backdrop, the authorities have sought to silence critical voices by cracking down on political activists, human rights defenders, journalists, trade unionists and students who denounce violations of economic and social rights.

Date:
19 April 2021
Ref:
AFR 22/3887/2021
  • News
  • Africa
  • Unlawful Detention

Republic of Congo: Crackdown on dissent as economic crisis exacerbates failures in health system

Authorities in the Republic of Congo have been conducting an alarming crackdown on  human rights defenders and activists who have denounced the consequences of the economic crisis and its impact on people’s daily life, in particular on access to health, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, ‘On the back of the crisis. Violations of the right to health and repression of economic and social rights defenders in the Republic of Congo’, documents the devastating impact on the country of both the economic crisis that began in 2014 following the fall in oil prices, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Date:
19 April 2021
  • News
  • Russian Federation
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Russia: Proposed ban of Aleksei Navalny’s organizations is new attempt to fully shut down dissent

Responding to news that a Russian prosecutor has lodged a court request to declare Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and associated organizations as “extremist” and to consequently ban their activities, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Moscow Office Director, said: “This looming ban has far reaching consequences for Russian civil society. Tens of thousands of peaceful activists and the staff of Aleksei Navalny’s organizations are in grave danger – if their organizations are deemed “extremist” they will be at imminent risk of criminal prosecution.

Date:
17 April 2021
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Detention

Saudi Arabia: Fears for health of imprisoned human rights defender held incommunicado

Fears are growing for the health and wellbeing of imprisoned human rights defender Mohammed al-Qahtani, who has been held incommunicado after testing positive for Covid-19 in Saudi Arabia’s Al Ha’ir prison, said Amnesty International. Mohammed al-Qahtani, co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), formerly one of Saudi Arabia’s few independent human rights organizations, is serving a 10-year prison sentence solely for his peaceful activism.

Date:
16 April 2021
  • News
  • Russian Federation
  • Migrants

Russia/Tajikistan: Stop deportation of Tajikistani migrants expelled solely for taking part in peaceful protest

The Russian government must immediately stop the deportation of at least 17 Tajikistani nationals detained during a peaceful protest in Moscow on 2 April against the suspected rendition of a fellow countryman, Amnesty International said today. The detained Tajikistani nationals, mostly migrant workers, had taken part in peaceful protests against the forcible return to Tajikistan of Izzat Amon (also known as Izatullo Kholov), a prominent migrants’ rights activist, lawyer and the head of the Moscow-based human rights centre Tojikon.

Date:
16 April 2021
  • News
  • Hong Kong

Hong Kong: Jailing of opposition figures over protests is violation of international law

Responding to the sentencing of 10 Hong Kong pro-democracy activists to between eight and 18 months in prison for taking part in two “unauthorized” protests in August 2019, Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Regional Director Yamini Mishra said: “The wrongful prosecution, conviction and sentencing of these 10 activists underlines the Hong Kong government’s intention to eliminate all political opposition in the city.

Date:
16 April 2021
  • News
  • Myanmar
  • Business and Human Rights

Myanmar: Military under ‘major pressure’ as steel giant cuts ties

Responding to reports that South Korean steel giant POSCO will end the steel venture its Myanmar subsidiary shares with military-owned conglomerate MEHL, Amnesty International’s Business and Human Rights Researcher Montse Ferrer said:  “POSCO’s decision to cut this tie is the latest blow to Myanmar’s military, which continues to impose its rule through murder and heinous human rights violations. Since staging a coup in February, the military has reportedly killed around 700 people, including dozens of children.

Date:
16 April 2021
  • News
  • Zimbabwe
  • Discrimination

Zimbabwe: Statelessness crisis traps hundreds of thousands in limbo

Hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the misery of statelessness in Zimbabwe have been forced to the margins of society, and struggle to access education, healthcare and housing, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The organization interviewed descendants of migrant workers who settled in Zimbabwe pre-independence, as well as survivors of the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s; two groups locked out of citizenship by a cruel combination of discrimination and bureaucracy.

Date:
16 April 2021
  • Research
  • Russian Federation
  • Refugees

Russia: France’s deportation of Chechen asylum seeker Magamed Gadaev to Russia despite risk of torture

Chechen police abducted Magomed Gadaev, an asylum seeker from Chechnya, in the Russian Federation, and a key witness in a high-profile torture investigation against Chechnya’s authorities, two days after he was wrongfully deported from France to Russia on 9 April. Chechen police continue to hold him in custody. Twelve Russian and international human rights organizations said that Gadaev is at high risk of torture, as a result of the actions by the French, Russian and Chechen authorities which violated international human rights law.

Date:
16 April 2021
Ref:
EUR 46/3999/2021
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  • Americas
  • Armed Conflict

Colombia: Rural communities and environment at risk

On 12 April 2021, President Ivan Duque signed decree 380 allowing the spraying of glyphosate for the eradication of illicit crops to resume. This policy, which was stopped in 2015 due to its detrimental effect on human rights and the environment, could negatively affect the health and other related rights of hundreds of campesino farming communities and have further environmental impacts in the country.

Date:
16 April 2021
Ref:
AMR 23/3995/2021
  • Research
  • Zimbabwe
  • Children

Zimbabwe: We are like "Stray animals"

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are many millions of stateless people globally – of which approximately one third are children. In Zimbabwe approximately 300,000 people are currently at risk of statelessness, according to the UNHCR. This report reveals how these population groups have been deprived for decades of their rights as citizens. Denied the documentation enabling them access to education, work, health care and other basic rights, hundreds of thousands of people have been rendered stateless, stripped of any legal status in the country where they have raised families and which they regard as home.

Date:
16 April 2021
Ref:
AFR 46/3932/2021
  • Research
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Women and Girls

Turkey: Update on Human Rights for PACE Spring Session

Continuation of human rights abuses call into question a new human rights action plan and cast doubt on Turkey's commitment to human rights, the rule of law and the protection of women and girls. This briefing covers: • Prosecution and detention of human rights defenders, opposition politicians and journalists • The crackdown on the right to freedom of assembly • Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention • Recommendations to the Council of Europe.

Date:
16 April 2021
Ref:
EUR 44/4000/2021