This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt in January 2025. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Egypt in its previous UPR, including in relation to the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful...

During his visit to Angola from 13 to 15 October, US President Joe Biden must demand Angolan President João Lourenço and his government immediately release five government critics arbitrarily detained for more than a year, four of whom have been tortured through deliberate denial of medical care,...

In the leadup to next month’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, states must exert pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse their clampdown on civil society, release those detained solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, and ensure participants including...

Responding to the repression and arrests on 1 October during the #FearlessOctober peaceful protests against the cost-of-living crisis and bad governance, Isa Sanusi, Director Amnesty International Nigeria, said:  “The Nigerian authorities must end their repressive approach to peaceful protests and...

The draft new Code of Criminal Procedures, scheduled for debate and voting by Egypt’s parliament in October 2024, falls far short of international human rights law and standards and risks exacerbating concerns in an already deeply flawed criminal justice system, said Amnesty International.

Responding to reports of the ongoing arbitrary detention of hundreds of people, including members of the academic community, in major towns across Ethiopia’s Amhara region since 28 September 2024, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “The...

Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release Egyptian-British activist Aala Abdel Fattah who will have completed the length of his unjust five-year prison sentence in three days on 29 September, said Amnesty International today. In reprisal for his activism, Egyptian...

Ninety Afghan, regional and international non-governmental organizations have recently renewed their appeal to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to establish an independent investigative mechanism, complementary to the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in...

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in advance of its consideration of the second periodic report of Pakistan at the 142nd session of the Committee scheduled to be held between 14 October to 8 November 2024. This submission emphasizes...

Responding to reports that Lesotho Defence Forces (LDF) soldiers tortured at least four people and killed at least two others during the ongoing Operation Hard Fist to confiscate illegal firearms from gang members, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa,...

Tunisian authorities have stepped up their clampdown on the rights to freedom of expression and association ahead of the presidential elections on 6 October 2024, said Amnesty International, escalating their harassment of political opponents, restricting the work of journalists, human rights...

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