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  • Philippines
  • Torture and other ill-treatment

Philippines: Historic ruling on police torture following Amnesty International campaign

A historic ruling by a Philippines court this week in which a police officer was convicted of torturing bus driver Jerryme Corre plants a seed of hope that the tide may be turning against impunity for perpetrators of torture, Amnesty International said today. It is first under the country’s 2009 Anti-Torture Act, and follows a three-year campaign by Amnesty International. The organization took up Jerryme Corre’s case in December 2013 – one year after his arrest – in its global Stop Torture campaign.

Date:
1 April 2016
  • News
  • Bahrain
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Bahrain: Glitz of Formula One Grand Prix masks human rights abuses

This weekend Bahrain hosts the Formula One Grand Prix, a glamorous event putting the country in the international spotlight. Away from the racing circuit Amnesty International has continued to documented a range of appalling human rights violations. “Behind the fast cars and the victory laps lies a government that is tightening its chokehold on any remnant of dissent in the country by stepping up arrests, intimidation and harassment of political opposition, critics and activists.

Date:
1 April 2016
  • News
  • Turkey
  • Refugees

Turkey: Illegal mass returns of Syrian refugees expose fatal flaws in EU-Turkey deal

Large-scale forced returns of refugees from Turkey to war-ravaged Syria expose the fatal flaws in a refugee deal signed between Turkey and the European Union earlier this month, Amnesty International revealed today. New research carried out by the organization in Turkey’s southern border provinces suggests that Turkish authorities have been rounding up and expelling groups of around 100 Syrian men, women and children to Syria on a near-daily basis since mid-January.

Date:
1 April 2016
  • News
  • Africa
  • Justice Systems

A historic moment for international justice

Like proverbial buses, it seems you can wait ages for a landmark international justice case, and then four come along at the same time. By any standards, the past fortnight has seen some remarkable developments for international justice. A week ago, on 24 March, Radovan Karadžić was convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) for his role in genocide and other crimes committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), including for the massacre of more than 7,000 Bosnian men and boys in Srebrenica.

Date:
31 March 2016
  • News
  • Congo
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Republic of Congo: End wave of opposition arrests following the Presidential elections

Authorities in the Republic of Congo should release political opponents detained for peaceful criticism of the recent elections, put an end to arbitrary arrests and detentions, and avoid any repression of peaceful protest, human rights organisations Amnesty International, Observatoire Congolais des Droits de l'Homme (OCDH), Association pour les Droits de l'Homme et l'Univers Carceral (ADHUC), and Rencontre pour la Paix et les Droits de l'Homme (RPDH) said today.

Date:
31 March 2016
  • News
  • Qatar
  • Migrants

Qatar: Abuse of World Cup workers exposed

Migrant workers building Khalifa International Stadium in Doha for the 2022 World Cup have suffered systematic abuses, in some cases forced labour, Amnesty International reveals in a new report published today. The report, The ugly side of the beautiful game: Exploitation on a Qatar 2022 World Cup site, blasts FIFA’s shocking indifference to appalling treatment of migrant workers. The number of people working on World Cup sites is set to surge almost ten-fold to around 36,000 in the next two years.

Date:
31 March 2016
  • News
  • Turkey
  • Internally Displaced People

Five Years of Crisis, Five Million Syrian Refugees

Over the past five years, the crisis in Syria has seen more than 250,000 people killed, tens of thousands forcibly disappeared, and millions displaced inside of Syria. It has also forced five million people to flee the country as refugees. Despite the staggering scale of this crisis, international support for the refugees, and for the handful of countries closest to Syria who are hosting the vast majority of them, has been woefully inadequate.

Date:
30 March 2016
  • News
  • Americas
  • Armed Conflict

Colombia: Peace talks with ELN must not allow human rights abuses to go unpunished

Justice for the many victims of human rights abuses and violations amid Colombia’s five-decade armed conflict must lie at the heart of peace talks announced today between the government and the National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN), Amnesty International said. The government and the ELN, the country’s second largest guerrilla group, said that official peace negotiations between the two sides are soon to take place, mainly in Ecuador.

Date:
30 March 2016
  • News
  • Angola
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Angola: Conviction of 17 peaceful activists an affront to justice

The guilty verdict and sentences of between two and eight-and-a-half years handed down to 17 activists on 28 March 2016 by the Luanda Provincial Tribunal are an affront to justice that must be reversed, said Amnesty International as it called for their immediate and unconditional release as prisoners of conscience. “The unjustifiable conviction and draconian sentences against these peaceful activists who should never have been detained at all demonstrate how Angolan authorities use the criminal justice system to silence dissenting views.

Date:
29 March 2016
  • News
  • Azerbaijan
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Azerbaijan releases human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev

The Azerbaijani authorities today released prominent human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev in what Amnesty International billed an overdue step towards righting the injustice against him and all remaining prisoners of conscience. Intigam Aliyev, head of the NGO Legal Education Society and a vocal government critic, was arrested in August 2014. In April 2015 he was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on trumped-up charges of tax avoidance, illegal entrepreneurship and abuse of power, amid a crackdown on dissident voices in Azerbaijan.

Date:
28 March 2016
  • News
  • Yemen
  • Armed Conflict

Flooding the region with arms is adding fuel to the fire in Yemen

It was a hot, dry day in early July 2015. Salah Basrallah, a farmer in Yemen’s northern region of Saada, stood among a cluster of nine houses that used to comprise his little village of Eram. He surveyed the pulverized scene in silence. He had lost 21 family members in four consecutive airstrikes on his village, including his six children and wife. Nearby lay the remnants of an MK-80 series bomb, similar to those found at many other coalition strike locations and which the United States is known to supply to Saudi Arabia.

Date:
27 March 2016
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Censorship and Free Speech

China: Prominent blogger’s family detained over letter lambasting President Xi

The Chinese authorities must call off their manhunt against those it believes are behind the publication of a letter calling on President Xi Jinping to resign, Amnesty International said, after it was revealed close family members of a prominent dissident are the latest to have been detained. Chinese blogger and government critic, Wen Yunchao, 45, who currently lives in New York, said on Friday that his mother, Qiu Xiaohua, 65, father, Wen Shaogan, 72, and younger brother Wen Yun’ao, 41, were taken away by police in Guangdong province, southern China on 22 March.

Date:
25 March 2016
  • News
  • Ukraine
  • Killings and Disappearances

Ukraine Murder of lawyer a chilling blow to justice

The hideous murder of lawyer Yuri Grabovski, whose body was found in central Ukraine bearing gunshot wounds, is a chilling reminder of the dangers faced by lawyers and activists perceived to challenge the authorities, said Amnesty International. Yuri Grabovski, who faced repeated harassment and intimidation in connection with his work as a lawyer, was found dead in a desolate area in Cherkasy Region, in central Ukraine last night.

Date:
25 March 2016
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Death Penalty

Japan: Two hanged as chilling executions continue

The Japanese authorities’ reprehensible execution of two people today, continues to place the country on the wrong side of history, Amnesty International said. Yasutoshi Kamata, a 75-year-old-man, was hanged in Osaka Detention Centre on Friday morning. Junko Yoshida, 56, was hanged in the early hours of Friday morning at Fukuoka Detention Centre, in southern Japan. Yoshida is the first woman to be executed in Japan since 2012.

Date:
25 March 2016
  • News
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Saudi Arabia: Journalist sentenced to five years in prison for tweets latest victim of crackdown

The sentencing of journalist Alaa Brinji to five years in prison, an eight-year travel ban and a fine of 50,000 Saudi Arabian riyals (about US$ 13,300) for a series of tweets, is a clear violation of international law and the latest demonstration of the Saudi Arabian authorities’ deep-seated intolerance of the right to peaceful expression, Amnesty International said today. He was found guilty on 24 March of a string of charges that included amongst other things, “insulting the rulers”, “inciting public opinion”, and “accusing security officers of killing protestors in Awamiyya” – an area in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province.

Date:
25 March 2016
  • News
  • Egypt
  • Detention

Teen who challenged torture in Egypt released after more than two years

The release on bail of Mahmoud Hussein in the early hours of this morning offers a faint glimmer of hope for Egypt’s deeply flawed justice system, said Amnesty International. The 20-year-old spent more than two years behind bars after being arrested at the age of 18 in 2014 for wearing a “Nation Without Torture” T-shirt, and a scarf with a logo of the “25 January Revolution”. He was charged with belonging to a banned group and attending an unauthorised protest, amongst other things.

Date:
25 March 2016