Responding to the start of a trial in Moscow against Oleg Orlov, a prominent human rights defender, who is charged with the newly instituted “crime” of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian Armed Forces and risks up to five years in a penal colony, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia...

The Taliban have committed the war crime of collective punishment against civilians in Afghanistan’s Panjshir province, Amnesty International said in a new report published today. The report, ‘Your Sons Are In The Mountains’: The Collective Punishment of Civilians In Panjshir by the Taliban,...

José Daniel Ferrer García, leader of the “Patriotic Union of Cuba”, was detained on July 11, 2021, in the context of widespread protests throughout the island. According to his family, he has been held in solitary confinement since August 14, 2021. Since March 17, 2023, he has remained...

A group of individuals have been arrested on charges related to their participation in peaceful protests in Kempir-Abad against a controversial new border agreement with Uzbekistan. A number are under house arrest and others remain in pretrial detention in poor conditions. Some of them have been...

On 27 February, the National Union of Higher Education Teachers (SINPES) in Angola started a strike demanding better working conditions and fulfillment of the promises made by the government. Since the beginning of the strike, union leaders – including general secretary Eduardo Peres Alberto-...

The Egyptian authorities have imposed an arbitrary travel ban on former prisoner of conscience and researcher Ahmed Samir Santawy, who is currently doing a master’s degree at a university in Vienna, Amnesty International said today. Ahmed Samir Santawy attempted to leave Cairo International Airport...

Reacting to the violence that broke out yesterday in Dakar and other towns following the verdict in the trial of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, Samira Daoud, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “We condemn the restrictions on accessing social media and the...

At least seven individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with nationwide protests, while dozens of others are at risk of being sentenced to death. The authorities have violated their fair trial rights and subjected many to torture and other ill-treatment, including floggings,...

States participating in a climate meeting starting on 5 June in Bonn, which will help set the agenda for the COP28 in Dubai later this year, should urge the United Arab Emirates to improve its dismal human rights record to ensure a successful conference, Amnesty International said today.

This year, the state host for the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is the United Arab Emirates. To have a successful COP28 that takes humanity off the path of climate crisis, the conference requires open civic space for criticism and...

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.

States are increasingly imposing obstacles to the right to protest. In the Netherlands, authorities are turning to surveillance tools, collecting data from social media, deploying camera surveillance during protests, and knocking on activists’ doors with questions about their participation in...