By Clara del Campo, South America Campaigner for Amnesty International Three years ago, at 3 a.m. on 14 November 2020, agents of the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence entered Guillermo Zárraga’s home and arbitrarily detained him, viewing him as a threat to the interests of Nicolás...

By Adeline Neau and Josefina Salomon* Guatemalan lawyer Flor de María Gálvez Álvarez still struggles to see herself as a refugee.  More than a decade after becoming a member of the now-defunct International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), she barely had enough time to call her...

By Camila Rodríguez, executive director of Justicia 11J I am writing these words in exile. I left Cuba almost exactly a year ago, after months of being threatened by State Security to stop my work defending human rights inside Cuba. My story is the story of dozens of activists, journalists,...

On 16 November 2023 Aleksandra Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for “disseminating knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces”. In March 2022, Aleksandra Skochilenko had replaced price tags in a local supermarket with little notes containing information about...

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to torture and other ill-treatment by deliberately denying or severely delaying her access to adequate healthcare to coerce her into adhering to Iran’s abusive...

COP28, the United Nations annual climate conference, takes place in Dubai from 30 November to 12 December. It will bring together 198 states and parties to address the global threat posed by climate change. The human rights record of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the host nation, will also be...

Responding to the news that Aleksandra Skochilenko has been convicted of “disseminating knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces” and sentenced to seven years in prison for replacing price tags with anti-war messages in a Saint Petersburg supermarket, Marie Struthers, Amnesty...

Amnesty International is calling for an immediate and unconditional release of Roman Ivanov, journalist from Korolev, Moscow Oblast, who is standing trial on charges of “public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of Russian Armed Forces abroad committed with the motive of...

By Cristhian Manuel Jiménez, Caribbean Campaigner at Amnesty International On 15 November, the UN Human Rights Council will conduct its Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Cuba, providing an important opportunity to address the state of human rights in the country. This process enables Cuba’s civil...

Tunisian lawmakers must refrain from adopting a highly restrictive NGO law that, if passed, would threaten independent civil society organizations in the country, said Amnesty International today. A draft NGO law, submitted by a group of MPs on 10 October, is due to be examined imminently by a...

Politician and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny has been sentenced to a total of 19 years in the special-regime prison following new trumped-up charges. He has recently been confined to a single cell-type room (so-called “EPKT”, a prison within the prison colony) for a year, for purportedly being a...

The prosecution of human rights defender Osman Kavala and four co-defendants in connection with mass protests a decade ago has been unfair and essentially a political show trial from the beginning, a group of nine non-governmental organisations including Amnesty International, said today ahead of...