Maryam Al-Khawaja has been barred from boarding a British Airways flight to Bahrain for a visit that she had publicly announced to pressure the Bahraini authorities to release her detained father, Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja, Amnesty International, Front Line...

Responding to the news that Saudi Arabia has already executed 100 people this year, Heba Morayef, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Director, said: “In clear contrast to Saudi Arabia’s repeated promises to limit its use of the death penalty, the Saudi authorities have already...

In this seven-point human rights agenda addressed to the presidential candidates in the Maldives, Amnesty International calls on the candidates to make clear their commitments to protect human rights if elected. Highlighting the current human rights situation in the Maldives based on Amnesty’s...

Uganda’s Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in Uganda must urgently drop charges of “aggravated homosexuality” against a 20-year-old man charged on 18 August 2023 becoming the second Ugandan to be charged with the offence under the country’s invasive Anti-Homosexuality Act, which...

Gubad Ibadoghlu, a renowned political economist and civil activist, was detained on 23 July 2023 on fabricated charges of the production, acquisition, or sale of counterfeit money by an organized group. His arrest and prosecution are an apparent retaliation for his criticism of the government and...

Belarusian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release, and end the ill-treatment of Maryia Kalesnikava. She is a prominent opposition figure and symbol of the 2020 peaceful protest and has been held behind bars since September 2020. Maryia Kalesnikava has been ill-treated by the...

Responding to the news that Nasta Loika, a Belarusian human rights defender and educator, has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony on trumped-up charges following a closed trial, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The...

This submission has been prepared by Amnesty International and JustSpeak ahead of Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2023 review under the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (the Convention) in July 2023. This submission mainly covers the period 2017 to...

Despite the Saudi authorities’ commitment to end their use of the death penalty against children under 18 at the time of the crime, seven young men are at risk of imminent execution after an appeals court confirmed their punishment, Amnesty International said today. Their execution would mark a...

Amnesty International wrote to the Minister of Justice with concerns regarding the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act. Earlier in May, the Ministry of Justice sought public comments and proposals on the bill that was issued on the gazette on 22 March 2023.

The health condition of Aleksei Navalny, Russian opposition leader and prisoner of conscience, raises serious concerns. The Russian authorities’ failure to provide him with adequate healthcare, his continued harassment and ill-treatment in prison, and their recent use of force against him gravely...

On 7 February, the Buryatia Supreme Court rejected Oleksandr Marchenko’s appeal against an administrative fine for “discreditation of the Russian armed forces”. He will appeal this decision. Following his appeal, the penal colony authorities incarcerated him in a confinement cell for six months on...