On 27 November 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions publicly called on Chilean authorities to “advance the prosecution and sanction of state agents responsible for crimes committed during the 2019-2020 protests”. In...

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...

Survivors and witnesses of a series of ethnically motivated attacks by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias in Ardamata, West Darfur earlier this month that killed and injured hundreds of civilians, have described the harrowing scenes to Amnesty International. The attacks begun...

The Zimbabwean authorities must immediately address the escalating cases of abductions, arbitrary detention, torture and killing of parliament members, opposition political activists, and human rights defenders, Amnesty International, Southern Defenders and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

On 13 November 2023, Amnesty International submitted a third-party intervention to the Belfast High Court in a legal challenge brought by several victims of the Northern Ireland conflict to the UK Government’s Northern Ireland (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023. Martina Dillon, John McEvoy, and...

Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at risk of execution in relation to the September to December 2022 nationwide protests in Iran. Following a grossly unfair trial, on 7 October 2023, Branch Two of Criminal Court 1 of Kermanshah province convicted him of “murder” and sentenced him to...

Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the occupied Gaza Strip and Israel to prevent further loss of civilian lives and to ensure access to life-saving aid for people in Gaza amidst an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. “Over the past two...

It is time for the African Commission to prioritize addressing impunity in Sudan. We call on the African Commission to publicly support the Fact-Finding Mission established by the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council in early October.

Three years after violent suppression of nationwide #EndSARS protests against police brutality, at least fifteen protesters arrested in 2020 are still being arbitrarily detained – the majority of them without trial – in Kirikiri Medium Correctional Centre and Ikoyi Medium Security Correctional...

Four years on from the repressive police response to the social protests and victims have yet to receive full reparations, no progress has been made in the structural reform of the Carabineros (Chile’s national police), and there is continuing impunity in the country, said Amnesty International on...

Indian authorities are misusing an abusive counterterrorism law, financial regulations, and other laws to silence journalists, human rights defenders, activists, and critics of the government, 12 international human rights groups said today.

Amnesty International has detailed in its submission to the Committee a decade of widespread violations of Iran’s obligations under the International Covenant on CIvil and Political Rights. The organization urges the Committee to highlight this crisis of systemic impunity and call on Iran to...