Lesotho’s authorities and incoming government must address unresolved cases of police brutality, torture and unlawful killings and ensure accountability for these human rights crimes beyond the electioneering period for the 7 October vote, Amnesty International said today. “A dangerous pattern of...

Eswatini authorities have escalated their crackdown on human rights, continuing their assault on human rights, the rule of law and justice. The government often uses force to quash opposition and dissent to suppress dissent and legitimate concerns of the people.

Reacting to the news that Russian poet and activist Artyom Kamardin was detained and subjected to torture, including gruesome sexual violence, by law enforcement officers after posting his recital of an anti-war poem online, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, said: “The...

The death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (whose Kurdish name is Zhina) on 16 September 2022, days after she was violently arrested by Iran’s “morality” police amid credible reports of torture and other ill-treatment, must be independently, impartially and effectively investigated and those...

Human Rights Watch, Legal Agenda, Amnesty International, and MENA Rights Group call on Lebanese authorities to transfer the prosecution of security force members charged in the torture and murder of a Syrian refugee from inherently unfair military courts to the ordinary criminal courts.

The bravery of protesters facing a spiralling deadly response by the Iranian security forces over the past days after the death of Mahsa Amini reveals the extent of outrage in Iran over abusive compulsory veiling laws, unlawful killings, and widespread repression, Amnesty International said today....

This paper sets out the key content and operational features of a prospective international instrument, a Torture-Free Trade Treaty, that is currently being discussed at the UN. Such an instrument would be aimed at prohibiting the manufacture and trade in inherently abusive law enforcement...

Um ano após o surgimento das imagens dolorosas e flagrantemente racistas de Del Rio, no Texas, quando agentes montados da Patrulha de Fronteira dos EUA usaram força excessiva contra pessoas negras haitianas solicitantes de refúgio, evocando associações com a escravidão, este relatório examina as...

Yon lane apre imaj malouk nan Dèlryo, Tekzas ki te parèt aklè imaj kòm rasis kote yon ofisye Patwouy Fwontyè ki sou cheval t ap ekzèse fòs depase lèbòn sou Ayisyen Nwa k ap chèche azil , yon sèn ki te voye siyal ki fè sonje tan lesklavaj. Rapò sa bay detay sou sou detansyon […]

One year after painful and overtly racist images emerged from Del Rio, Texas, in which US Border Patrol officials mounted on horseback used excessive force against Black Haitians asylum seekers invoking associations with slavery, this report details the on-going arbitrary detention, mass expulsions...

US authorities have subjected Haitian asylum seekers to arbitrary detention and discriminatory and humiliating ill-treatment that amounts to race-based torture, said Amnesty International today in the new report, ‘They Did Not Treat Us Like People’: Race and Migration-Related Torture and Other...

This oral statement urges the Human Rights Council to extend the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) Commission’s mandate and boost its budget and capacity to conduct its work.