Adja was surrounded by wood and ashes at the smokehouse near the beach in Sanyang, Gambia, when she spoke to Amnesty International. This popular tourism spot is also the centre of one of Gambia’s other main sources of income – fish. Adja, a widow in her forties, said she had begun smoking fish four...

In response to today’s Fukuoka District Court ruling that that upheld the Japanese government ban on same-sex marriage, Amnesty International Japan’s Campaigns Manager Shinya Takeda said: “While this ruling is not the victory the LGBTI community in Japan was hoping for, it does nevertheless show...

Responding to the start of a trial in Moscow against Oleg Orlov, a prominent human rights defender, who is charged with the newly instituted “crime” of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces and risks up to three years in a penal colony, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia...

Responding to the three-and-a-half year prison sentence handed to Chinese human rights lawyer Chang Weiping for “subversion of state power” today at Feng County Detention Centre, Shaanxi province, the Head of Amnesty International’s China Team, Sarah Brooks, said: “It is an outrage that Chang...

The Taliban have committed the war crime of collective punishment against civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, ‘Your Sons Are In The Mountains’: The Collective Punishment of Civilians In Panjshir by the Taliban,...

Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, they have directed collective punishment upon the residents of Panjshir province, particularly in communities where the Taliban have established and deployed their forces. In an effort to combat the National Resistance Front, the...

Responding to warnings that the smoke from more than 400 wildfires burning across Canada poses risks to the health of tens of millions of people in North America, Marta Schaaf, Amnesty International’s Director of Climate, Economic and Social Justice, and Corporate Accountability Programme, said:...

Lebanese authorities must urgently prioritize the health of prisoners as deaths in Ministry of Interior-run prisons nearly doubled in 2022 compared to 2018, the year before the ongoing acute economic crisis began, Amnesty International said today. Judicial authorities must conduct prompt, impartial...

This investigation explores the reasons behind the sharp rise in deaths in Lebanon’s prisons.

Carlos Debiais, a Venezuelan photographer unfairly detained since 12 November 2021, was finally released from prison on 6 June 2023. He had been issued a release warrant in April 2022 which prison authorities refused to execute, keeping him arbitrarily detained for the next 15 months. His release...

The undersigning organizations wish to express profound concern regarding the consideration of Bill 2903/2023 by the Brazilian Senate, which pose a direct threat not only to the territories that Indigenous peoples currently occupy, but also those which they have traditionally owned, occupied, or...