Responding to the news that Eswatini’s Supreme Court upheld controversial provisions of the Suppression of Terrorism Act on appeal, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for East and Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda, said:  “The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold this repressive legislation is a...

This report has been drafted by Amnesty International and the Runnymede Trust, who collated the information in this submission and organised roundtables with over 40 organisations to inform the examination of the 24th to 26th combined reports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern...

Girls and young women who escaped Boko Haram captivity in north-east Nigeria faced further suffering, including sometimes in unlawful military detention, and are now receiving inadequate support as they attempt to rebuild their lives, Amnesty International said in a new report. ‘Help us build our...

People detained following the territorial defeat of the Islamic State (IS) armed group are facing systematic violations and dying in large numbers due to inhumane conditions in north-east Syria, Amnesty International said in a new report. Aftermath: Injustice, Torture and Death in Detention in...

Reacting to an armed group’s attack on 22 March on the Crocus City Hall concert venue in Moscow’s outskirts, which left at least 137 people dead and hundreds injured, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “We offer our deepest condolences to the...

By Elizabeth Haight   The Guantanamo Bay detention center has been open for 22 years as of 11 January 2024. First opened in 2002, Guantanamo continues to uphold a legacy of torture, indefinite detention, Islamophobia, and injustice. Detainees in Guantanamo are held without charges or fair trials,...

Amnesty International is concerned that the new legislative package entitled “Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure and Various Laws and Decree-Law No. 659,” commonly known as the “8th Judicial Package,” falls short of human rights standards.

A disturbing escalation in the abuse of vague anti-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation in Russia has intensified since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Amnesty International said today. The briefing “Terrorising the dissent” documents how Russia’s...

In recent years the Russian authorities have been increasingly using false, politically motivated terrorism-related charges. Their abuse has reached a whole new level with the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in advance of its consideration of the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) at the 140th session of the Committee to be held between 4 to 28 March 2024.

Amnesty International condemns the armed attack which took place on 6 February outside the İstanbul Justice Palace, in which one member of the public was seriously injured and later died in hospital, and three law enforcement officials and two other members of the public were also injured. The...

Reacting to the sentencing on the prosecution’s appeal of renowned Russian sociologist and Marxist activist Boris Kagarlitsky to five years in a penal colony, on spurious charges of “justification of terrorism,” Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Director for Russia, said: “This verdict is a...