Entrenched impunity for deaths in custody and other serious human rights abuses by armed groups operating under the command of the self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) has enabled the Internal Security Agency (ISA) to intensify its crackdown on critics and political opponents in recent...

Responding to the granting of Presidential assent to the Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Act 2024 late last week and the continued crackdown on peaceful protests in Pakistan, Babu Ram Pant, Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International said: “The Peaceful Assembly and Public...

International Accountability Urgently Needed Amid Intensifying Post-Election Repression. The United Nations Human Rights Council should renew the mandate of its Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela, 30 national and international organizations defending human rights in...

Saudi Arabia’ s authorities must immediately release all those arbitrarily detained solely for expressing their views online ahead of the upcoming Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Riyadh, said 40 NGOs and human rights organizations including Amnesty International in a joint statement published...

Responding to the Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill adopted today by the West Bengal state government that introduces the death penalty for the offence of rape when it results in the victim’s death or leaves them “in a vegetative state”, Aakar Patel, Chair of Board...

Responding to the latest arrests of journalists and activists during the snap parliamentary election campaign in Azerbaijan that ended on Sunday, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s South Caucasus Researcher, said: “The alarming new arrests and detentions targeting government critics must not...

Responding to reports that Vladimir Putin plans to visit Mongolia on 3 September, Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia, said: “If he travels, Mongolia’s international legal obligations are clear as a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They...

Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space by continuing their brutal crackdown on human rights including the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association in the run up to the country’s presidential elections scheduled to be held on 7 September, said...

In response to statements made by the Dominican Republic’s vice president, Raquel Peña, on concerns raised by Amnesty International regarding the responsibility of Luis Abinader’s government to investigate, punish and redress human rights violations occurring in the context of the implementation of...

Responding to the signing of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances by the Interim Government of Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus yesterday, Smriti Singh, Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International said: “The signing of...

The Guinean authorities must immediately carry out an impartial, independent and transparent investigation into the enforced disappearance of civil society activists Oumar Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah, who have now been missing for more than seven weeks, said Amnesty International and 17 Guinean...