News
Lebanon
Corporal Punishment
Lebanese authorities must urgently prioritize the health of prisoners as deaths in Ministry of Interior-run prisons nearly doubled in 2022 compared to 2018, the year before the ongoing acute economic crisis began, Amnesty International said today. Judicial authorities must conduct prompt, impartial...
June 7, 2023
Research
Afghanistan
Asylum
After the Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021, the human rights situation of women and girls in Afghanistan deteriorated severely, despite the Taliban’s initial promise to respect women’s and girls’ rights. The Taliban have been increasingly introducing new restrictions with the apparent...
May 25, 2023
News
Middle East and North Africa
Corporal Punishment
Saudi authorities are forcibly returning hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian migrants after arbitrarily holding them in indefinite detention in inhuman and cruel conditions solely because they do not have valid residency documents, a situation exacerbated by Saudi’s abusive kafala system, Amnesty...
December 16, 2022
News
Senegal
Child Labour
The Senegalese authorities must meet their obligations and take action to end violations of the rights of children often referred to as talibé ( studying in Quranic schools commonly known as daaras), Amnesty International said today in a new briefing. The economic exploitation of talibé children...
December 12, 2022
News
Egypt
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) must not forcibly return Egyptian-American political dissident and video blogger Sherif Osman to Egypt where he would be at real risk of torture and other human rights violations including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and unfair trial, Amnesty...
December 8, 2022
News
Middle East and North Africa
Corporal Punishment
Hussein Abo al-Kheir, a Jordanian man and father of eight who has been on death row since 2015 on a drug-smuggling conviction is at risk of imminent execution, Amnesty International said today, as Saudi Arabia resumes executions for drug-related offences after a two-year moratorium. Since 10...
December 1, 2022
News
Afghanistan
Corporal Punishment
Responding to the public flogging of three women and 11 men on Wednesday on the orders of a Taliban court on charges of theft and moral crimes in Logar province of Afghanistan, Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, said: “The public flogging of women and men is a cruel and...
November 24, 2022
News
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Corporal Punishment
The authorities in Palestine must ensure that six men arrested in the West Bank in June, including three who have been on hunger strike for almost two months whilst in detention, receive a fair trial, Amnesty International said today ahead of the first hearing of their court case. They must also...
November 2, 2022
Research
Africa
Corporal Punishment
Despite its relatively good reputation with respect to its respect for and promotion of human rights, on closer observation, Botswana has various grave human rights challenges. In this vein this submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Botswana in May 2023. In it, Amnesty...
October 11, 2022
Campaigns
Iran
Corporal Punishment
Three prisoners, two men and a woman, are at imminent risk of judicially-sanctioned blinding after their cases were sent to Branch 3 of the Office for Implementation of Sentences in Tehran to carry out their sentences of blinding under the principle of qesas (retribution-in-kind).
October 5, 2022
News
Iran
Corporal Punishment
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....
September 23, 2022
Research
Botswana
Corporal Punishment
Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to make a submission to the UN Committee against Torture. In this submission, Amnesty International sets out its concerns regarding the flogging of a child and the unlawful use of the death penalty under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel,...
June 30, 2022