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Czech Republic: Hard won justice for women survivors of unlawful sterilization

The Czech Senate today finally voted to compensate thousands of Roma women who were unlawfully sterilized by the Czechoslovak and subsequently Czech authorities between 1966 and 2012, following a long campaign for justice by survivors. Barbora Černušáková, Amnesty International’s researcher on the Czech Republic, said: “Thousands of women, the majority of whom were Roma, were sterilized in the former Czechoslovakia.

Date:
22 July 2021
  • News
  • Technology and Human Rights

Amnesty categorically stands by Pegasus Project data set

In response to false allegations on social media and inaccurate media stories in relation to the Pegasus Project, Amnesty International issued the following statement: "Amnesty International categorically stands by the findings of the Pegasus Project, and that the data is irrefutably linked to potential targets of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware. The false rumours being pushed on social media are intended to distract from the widespread unlawful targeting of journalists, activists and others that the Pegasus Project has revealed.

Date:
22 July 2021
  • News
  • Angola
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Angola: Millions facing hunger, as thousands flee their homes as drought ravages the south of Angola

Millions of people in southern Angola are facing an existential threat as drought aggravated by climate change continues to ravage the region, Amnesty International said today. The organization highlighted how the creation of commercial cattle ranches on community land has driven  pastoralist communities from their land since the end of the civil war in 2002 - a shift which left huge sections of the population food insecure and paved the way for a humanitarian crisis as the acute drought persists for over three years.

Date:
22 July 2021
  • News
  • Tanzania
  • Detention

Tanzania: Release opposition leader and party members

In response to the arbitrary arrest today of opposition leader Freeman Mbowe and 11 other party officials and staff of Party of Democracy and Progress (Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo in Swahili) officially known as Chadema, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes Region, said: “Tanzanian authorities must end escalating crackdown on opposition party and leaders.

Date:
21 July 2021
  • News

Pegasus Project: Princess Latifa and Princess Haya listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group

New evidence uncovered by the Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers of Emirati princesses Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum and Haya bint Hussein were listed as potential targets by clients of spyware company NSO Group in the 50,000 numbers leaked in the Pegasus Project investigation. Director of Amnesty Tech, Rasha Abdul Rahim, said: “These shocking revelations appear to implicate NSO Group in the catalogue of human rights violations inflicted on Princess Latifa and Princess Haya.

Date:
21 July 2021
  • News
  • Americas
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Chile: Amnesty International demands investigations into Carabineros’ former and current Director Generals for human rights violations

Amnesty International published a new video today calling on the Chilean National Prosecutor's Office to investigate the high command of the Carabineros, specifically the former Director General and the current Director General, for widespread human rights violations committed during the period of social unrest that began in October 2019. Given the imminent closure of the investigation into the attacks that left Gustavo Gatica permanently blind, set for 30 July; the review of the precautionary measures against the Carabinero identified as having shot the tear gas canister that blinded Fabiola Campillai, and the request for an extension of the deadline for the investigation by the Prosecutor's Office in this case, which will be on 28 July; Amnesty International considers investigations of the full chain of command  to be as necessary as they are urgent.

Date:
21 July 2021
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Hungary: The government must provide a meaningful response to the Pegasus scandal

Hungarian journalism non-profit Direkt36 today published a major investigation into the use of NSO Group’s notorious Pegasus spyware in Hungary, revealing that the phones of more than 300 Hungarian nationals were identified as possible targets for infection. Experts from Amnesty International were able to confirm several cases where the spyware was successfully installed. The revelations come as part of the Pegasus Project, a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit.

Date:
20 July 2021
  • News
  • France
  • Technology and Human Rights

Pegasus Project: Macron among world leaders selected as potential targets of NSO spyware

New evidence uncovered by the Pegasus Project has revealed that the phone numbers for 14 heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pakistan’s Imran Khan and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, as well as hundreds of government officials, were selected as people of interest by clients of spyware company NSO Group. Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnes Callamard said:  “The unprecedented revelation that the phones of at least fourteen heads of state may have been hacked using NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware should send a chill down the spine of world leaders.

Date:
20 July 2021
  • News
  • Technology and Human Rights

Pegasus Project: Apple iPhones compromised by NSO spyware

New evidence uncovered by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories has revealed a massive wave of attacks by cyber surveillance company NSO Group’s customers on iPhones, potentially affecting thousands of Apple users worldwide. Deputy Director of Amnesty Tech Danna Ingleton said:   “Apple prides itself on its security and privacy features, but NSO Group has ripped these apart. Our forensic analysis has uncovered irrefutable evidence that through iMessage zero-click attacks, NSO’s spyware has successfully infected iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 models.

Date:
19 July 2021
  • News

Pegasus Project: Rwandan authorities chose thousands of activists, journalists and politicians to target with NSO spyware

New evidence uncovered by Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories has revealed that Rwandan authorities used NSO Group’s spyware to potentially target more than 3,500 activists, journalists and politicians. It was also used to infect the phone of Carine Kanimba, Paul Rusesabagina’s daughter, of Hotel Rwanda fame. Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “NSO Group cannot insist that its products are only used against criminals when more than 3,500 Rwandan activists, journalists, political opponents, foreign politicians, and diplomats have been selected as targets for NSO spyware.

Date:
19 July 2021
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa

Morocco: Journalist harassed by authorities must be granted fair re-trial

Responding to the conviction of journalist and government critic Omar Radi to six years in prison in a trial marred by blatant breaches of due process in relation to charges of espionage and rape, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Amna Guellali said: “Before his arrest Omar Radi was harassed by the authorities because of his brave journalistic work criticizing human rights violations and exposing corruption.

Date:
19 July 2021
  • News
  • Americas
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Nayib Bukele's recipe for limiting the exercise of human rights

The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, was elected in June 2019 on a platform in which he promised, among other things, to promote and defend human rights. More than two years later, the country is facing what seems more like a campaign to stigmatize and silence those who dare to question the politics of the government and defend the human rights of all people than the electoral promise. Some of the official tactics seem to have been taken from neighbouring countries, others have been designed taking advantage of new technologies.

Date:
19 July 2021
  • News

Massive data leak reveals Israeli NSO Group's spyware used to target activists, journalists, and political leaders globally

NSO Group’s spyware has been used to facilitate human rights violations around the world on a massive scale, according to a major investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets. These include heads of state, activists and journalists, including Jamal Khashoggi’s family. The Pegasus Project is a ground-breaking collaboration by more than 80 journalists from 17 media organizations in 10 countries coordinated by Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based media non-profit, with the technical support of Amnesty International, who conducted cutting- edge forensic tests on mobile phones to identify traces of the spyware.

Date:
18 July 2021
  • News
  • Afghanistan
  • Armed Conflict

Afghanistan: Journalists covering conflict must be protected following death of Reuters photographer

Responding to the death of Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed on Friday in Spin Boldak, Afghanistan while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters, Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s South Asia regional campaigner, said: “The news of the killing of Danish Siddiqui is deeply shocking. We share our condolences with his family, friends and colleagues. Danish Siddiqui was a brave photojournalist, known for his searing images that carefully chronicled some of the worst humanitarian crises around the world.

Date:
16 July 2021
  • News
  • Ethiopia
  • Detention

Ethiopia: End arbitrary detentions of Tigrayans, activists and journalists in Addis Ababa and reveal whereabouts of unaccounted detainees

Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained dozens of Tigrayans without due process, following the recapture of the Tigray region’s capital, Mekelle, by forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) that also calls itself Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) on 28 June, Amnesty International said today. The arrests appear to be ethnically motivated, with former detainees, witnesses and lawyers describing how police checked identity documents before arresting people and taking them to detention centres.

Date:
16 July 2021