This submission has been prepared in advance of the review of Iceland’s 6th periodic on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights by the UN Human Rights Committee in October 2024. In particular, the submission provides information about harmful and unjustified...

Education activists Ahmad Fahim Azimi and Seddiqullah Afghan have been released after several months of arbitrary detention. Seddiqullah Afghan was released on 9 April 2024 as part of pardon for prisoners on Eid; Ahmad Fahim Azimi was released on 26 September 2024 by the Taliban court citing lack...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Egypt in January 2025. In it, Amnesty International evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Egypt in its previous UPR, including in relation to the rights to freedom of expression, association and peaceful...

Amnesty International delivered an oral statement before the UN Human Rights Council during the General Debate on Item 10 (Interactive Dialogue on technical cooperation in Honduras, Penitentiary system, security and justice: enhancement of technical cooperation and capacity-building to protect...

On 30 September 2024, Palestinian surgeon Khaled Al Serr was released from Israeli detention after spending more than six months without charges or trial, half of which was incommunicado detention, under the abusive Unlawful Combatants Law. Dr. Khaled Al Serr was arbitrarily detained by the Israeli...

Amnesty International submits this report ahead of the review of Thailand by the UN Committee against Torture in October 2024. It sets out Amnesty International’s key concerns on various issues related to torture and other cruel, degrading and inhuman treatments in Thailand.

Humanitarian worker and civil society activist Pakhshan Azizi, from Iran’s oppressed Kurdish ethnic minority, is at risk of execution following a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran. In July 2024, she was sentenced to death solely in relation to her peaceful humanitarian and...

On 25 March 2024, the Israeli military detained Palestinian surgeon Khaled Al Serr, along with other medical staff, from Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in the occupied Gaza Strip. Until 4 July 2024 his fate and whereabouts remained unknown. He is held in Ofer military prison in the occupied West...

On 29 September, prominent Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah will have been imprisoned for the length of his unjust five-year prison sentence, amid fears that Egyptian authorities will refuse to release him. On 20 December 2021, he was convicted on bogus charges and sentenced to five...

Responding to reports that Lesotho Defence Forces (LDF) soldiers tortured at least four people and killed at least two others during the ongoing Operation Hard Fist to confiscate illegal firearms from gang members, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa,...

Dr Christophe Sahabo, a Burundian doctor, was arrested on 1 April 2022 over a dispute regarding the management of Kira hospital and has remained in detention ever since. On 10 September, he vomited and collapsed during a trial hearing. He was admitted to hospital, but transferred back to Ruyigi...

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