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Syria: 10-year-old girl to receive urgent surgery following evacuation from besieged Madaya

A 10-year-old Syrian girl seriously wounded by sniper fire from a Syrian government forces checkpoint in Madaya was successfully evacuated last night for urgent surgery following international pressure, Amnesty International can confirm. According to the Syrian Red Crescent, Ghina Ahmad Wadi and her mother were escorted from the besieged town to Damascus overnight last night. The move follows appeals by the girl’s UK-based aunt, supported by Amnesty International and others.

Date:
14 August 2016
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Detention

Bangladesh: End illegal detentions immediately

Authorities should charge or release detainees, stop practice of secret arrests  Bangladeshi authorities should immediately end the illegal detentions of Mir Qasem Ali and Humman Qader Chowdhury, arrested respectively on 9 August and 4 August, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. Both men were arrested without warrants or charges, have not been produced before a magistrate, and have not been allowed access to family or lawyers“There is no question that Qasem Ali and Chowdhury are subject to an enforced disappearance in the custody of the security forces.

Date:
14 August 2016
  • News
  • Africa
  • Refugees

Refugees in Kakuma watch Team Refugees compete at Rio Olympics

Refugees are proudly cheering on Team Refugees at screenings of the Olympic Games at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, thanks to a FilmAid project supported by Amnesty International. Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said:  "These two brief weeks will be a source of hope and inspiration to these athletes, and millions of other refugees watching around the globe.

Date:
13 August 2016
  • News
  • Burundi
  • Corporal Punishment

Burundi: UN findings must be a wake-up call on torture

The UN Committee against Torture (CAT) issued a wake-up call to Burundi today, said Amnesty International after the Committee flagged an increase in the use of torture and other ill-treatment since the beginning of the country’s current crisis in April 2015. In its concluding observations following a special report submitted at CAT’s request, the Committee’s 10 independent international experts expressed deep concern over hundreds of cases of torture alleged to have taken place in recent months in both official and unofficial places of detention.

Date:
12 August 2016
  • News

Kenya: Watershed ruling on lawyer’s disappearance and execution by police

Responding to today’s High Court ruling that Kenyan human rights lawyer Willie Kimani and two others were subject to enforced disappearance and later executed by police, Victor Odero, Amnesty International’s East Africa Campaigner said: “The court’s determination is a watershed moment in the history of justice in Kenya as it sheds the spotlight on the common but under-reported scourge of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in the country.

Date:
11 August 2016
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Syria: Fresh chemical attack on Aleppo a war crime

The Syrian city of Aleppo has been hit by a suspected chlorine attack, which would amount to a war crime if confirmed, and constitutes an alarming sign that Syrian government forces are intensifying their use of chemical weapons against civilians, Amnesty International said Thursday. The attack on a residential neighbourhood in a part of Aleppo controlled by armed groups is the third reported use of chemical weapons in northern Syria in just two weeks and has reportedly killed at least four people.

Date:
11 August 2016
  • Campaigns
  • Hungary
  • Refugees

The long crossing to Hungary: refugees between borders and barbed wire

Todor Gardos and Alice Wyss, Europe researchers at Amnesty International. "The journey has been so difficult, especially for my child," Noor*, a 27-year-old woman from Afghanistan tells us. Noor is in Horgoš (Хоргош) on the Serbian-Hungarian border, a tented pre-transit camp beside a high barbed-wire fence. Each morning she joins hundreds of others, crowding around anxiously to look at a list, to see where their name is and how much longer they have to wait.

Date:
11 August 2016
  • News
  • Iran
  • Women and Girls

Iran: Women’s rights activists treated as ‘enemies of the state’ in renewed crackdown

Iranian authorities have intensified their repression of women’s rights activists in the country in the first half of this year, carrying out a series of harsh interrogations and increasingly likening any collective initiative relating to women’s rights to criminal activity, Amnesty International said today. The organization’s research reveals that since January 2016 more than a dozen women’s rights activists in Tehran have been summoned for long, intensive interrogations by the Revolutionary Guards, and threatened with imprisonment on national security-related charges.

Date:
10 August 2016
  • News
  • Oman
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Oman: Journalists detained for reporting on corruption

Oman’s authorities have carried out a string of journalist arrests in recent weeks signalling a growing crackdown on freedom of expression in the country, said Amnesty International. Three journalists from Azamn daily newspaper have been detained in connection with an article highlighting allegations of corruption in the Omani judiciary published on 26 July. The most recent arrest of the Deputy Editor in Chief, Youssef al-Haj, took place yesterday.

Date:
10 August 2016
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Killing the music: Buskers ensnared by Russian protest laws

The first notes of a traditional Russian folk melody were drifting across central Moscow’s Manezhnaya Square when the police car pulled up. Lyubov Startseva and Violetta Mikhaylova, award-winning students at St Petersburg’s Mussorgsky Music Academy, exchanged a worried glance over their instruments. They had been busking plenty of times back in St Petersburg without being bothered by the authorities. Two policemen stepped out of the car and inspected their identity cards.

Date:
10 August 2016
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Torture and other ill-treatment

Australia: Reaction to The Guardian's damning 'Nauru files' on refugee abuse

Responding to The Guardian's "Nauru files" leak today, Amnesty International's Senior Director for Research Anna Neistat said: "This leak has laid bare a system of 'routine dysfunction and cruelty' that is at once dizzying in its scale and utterly damning for the Australian authorities who tried so hard to maintain a veil of secrecy. "When Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch went to Nauru against the odds and saw with our own eyes the appalling and systemic abuses taking place, the Australian government tried to roundly deny our findings.

Date:
9 August 2016
  • News
  • India
  • Prisoners of Conscience

India: End of Irom Sharmila’s hunger strike an opportunity to repeal AFSPA

Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience Irom Chanu Sharmila ended her 16-year-long hunger strike against the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) today. Amnesty International India calls on authorities to drop all charges against her, and take steps to repeal the AFSPA. At a hearing in a local court, Irom Sharmila said, “I have been fasting for the last 16 years. I haven’t got anything from it yet.

Date:
9 August 2016
  • News
  • Africa
  • Demonstrations

Uganda: Minister’s remarks against LGBTI people amount to advocacy of hatred

Reacting to threats by Uganda’s Minister of Ethics and Integrity Simon Lokodo that he will suppress the activities of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) rights activists and “rehabilitate” LGBTI people, Amnesty International said: “The minister’s remarks coming only a few days after police assaulted peaceful attendees at a private LGBTI Pride event in Kampala are hugely irresponsible and are tantamount to  advocacy of hatred and incitement to discrimination,” said Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes.

Date:
8 August 2016
  • News
  • Ethiopia
  • Unlawful Killings

Ethiopia: Dozens killed as police use excessive force against peaceful protesters

At least 97 people were killed and hundreds more injured when Ethiopian security forces fired live bullets at peaceful protesters across Oromia region and in parts of Amhara over the weekend, according to credible sources who spoke to Amnesty International. Thousands of protesters turned out in Oromia and Amhara calling for political reform, justice and the rule of law. The worst bloodshed - which may amount to extrajudicial killings - took place in the northern city of Bahir Dar where at least 30 people were killed in one day.

Date:
8 August 2016
  • News
  • Pakistan
  • Killings and Disappearances

Pakistan: Attack on Quetta hospital abhorrent disregard for the sanctity of life

An apparently pre-planned suicide attack, which killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 50 others in a hospital in Quetta, south-western Pakistan, today is the latest in a series of horrific attacks by armed groups targeting ordinary people in Pakistan, said Amnesty International. “This is an absolutely senseless targeting of dozens of people, including patients and mourners. It has led to a devastating loss of life, and is an example of the string of attacks in recent years in Pakistan on schools, hospitals and other ‘soft targets’, which must cease immediately,” said Champa Patel, Amnesty International's Regional Programme Director, Asia Pacific.

Date:
8 August 2016
  • News
  • Kenya
  • Justice Systems

Kenya: Taiwanese nationals must not be deported to China

Kenyan authorities must not deport five Taiwanese nationals to China, where they face a real risk of human rights violations, said Amnesty International today. A judge in Nairobi acquitted today five men who hold Taiwanese passports of internet fraud. In her ruling, the judge ordered that the five who hold Taiwanese passports be returned to Taiwan. However, 45 other Taiwanese nationals involved in the same case were draped in black hoods and deported to China upon their acquittal in April, despite expressing fears of human rights violations.

Date:
5 August 2016