Violence and repression by the Colombian security forces, especially the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD), have resulted in hundreds of victims sustaining eye trauma, said Amnesty International, Temblores and the Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social (PAIIS) of the Universidad de...

This report, produced jointly by the Programa de Acción por la Igualdad y la Inclusión Social (PAIIS) of the Universidad de los Andes, Temblores and Amnesty International, documents the violent repression of social protest in Colombia in the context of the National Strike that began in April 2021...

Following today’s decision by a court in Turkey not to release prominent human rights defender, Osman Kavala, Amnesty International have called on heads of state of the Council of Europe countries to launch infringement proceedings against Turkey when they meet in Strasbourg on Tuesday. In an open...

End Crackdown on Civil Society; Ensure Accountability for Security Force Abuses Indian authorities have detained the prominent Kashmiri human rights activist Khurram Parvez under an abusive counterterrorism law that is increasingly used against activists and critics of the government, six human...

We, the undersigned human rights non-governmental organizations, call on you, in your capacity as Minister of Justice, to implement without further delay the court decisions granting provisional release to Christa Kaneza. The failure to implement the court decision is an affront to the rule of law...

سازمان عفو بین‌الملل امروز اعلام کرد که اعدام آرمان عبدالعالیِ ۲۵ ساله در ۳ آذر ۱۴۰۰ برای جرمی که وی در زمان وقوع آن کودک بوده است، بار دیگر شقاوت نظام کیفری حاکم بر ایران را برجسته کرده است. این نظام کیفری به سلب خودسرانه حق حیات اقدام می‌ورزد، چرخه خشونت را در جامعه مستمر […]

The execution on 24 November 2021 of Arman Abdolali, a 25-year-old man sentenced to death for a crime that took place when he was a child, exposes the cruelty of Iran’s criminal justice system that facilitates the arbitrary deprivation of the right to life, perpetuates the cycle of violence and...

Next week, the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers will meet to discuss the launch of infringement proceedings, a rarely used procedure available under the European Convention onHuman Rights (the Convention), in the case of Osman Kavala. Council of Europe member states have a crucial role to...

Reacting to the release of hundreds of the husbands of the ‘Knifar Women’ – a movement of more than 2,000 displaced Nigerian women who campaign for the release of their husbands from unlawful military detention – Osai Ojigho, Director of Amnesty International Nigeria, said: “We welcome the...

As the Gambian Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) today submits its final report to President Adama Barrow, Amnesty International’s West Africa Researcher Michèle Eken said: “The Commission’s report must give way to an unequivocal commitment from the Gambian authorities that...

The Egyptian authorities are complicit in an ongoing crackdown against dozens of factory workers who went on a peaceful strike this summer to demand fair pay, an investigation by Amnesty International has found.   Between 26 July and 1 August, around 2,000 employees of LORD...

Gender-based violence has a heightened impact on Venezuelan women and girls who seek international protection, after fleeing massive human rights violations in their home country, warned Amnesty International today on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. “While...