An illustration of messaging calling for the end of red-tagging in Philippines.

Amnesty International welcomes the opportunity to engage with the Committee ahead of its review of Pakistan. Despite its obligations under the ICCPR, Pakistan has failed to deliver on its promises and human rights violations persist, particularly violations of the rights to life, fair trial,...

Today marked the formal beginning of the criminal investigation against three people who served as senior Carabineros commanders during the political repression of protests in 2019. Under their leadership, two people died at the hands of the police and thousands suffered serious injuries, including...

During his visit to Angola from 13 to 15 October, US President Joe Biden must demand Angolan President João Lourenço and his government immediately release five government critics arbitrarily detained for more than a year, four of whom have been tortured through deliberate denial of medical care,...

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...

The self-proclaimed Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF) must reveal the fate and whereabouts of former Minister of Defence Al-Mahdi al-Barghathi and 18 of his relatives and supporters who were abducted in Benghazi by armed men, said Amnesty International marking a year since their enforced...

Reacting to the fatal stabbing of Azerbaijani human rights defender Vidadi Isgandarli in France, where he had been living in exile, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s Researcher for South Caucasus, said: “The violent death of Vidadi Isgandarli must be effectively and promptly investigated. We...

Successive Iraqi governments have failed to ensure justice, truth and reparation for the lethal crackdown against the 2019 Tishreen [October] protests that led to the killing and disappearance of hundreds and the injury of thousands of protesters, Amnesty International said today, ahead of the...

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 1 October 2019, mass protests erupted across Iraq, known as the Tishreen protests, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets. In response, Iraqi security forces used excessive and unlawful lethal force against mostly peaceful demonstrators, killing hundreds. On the five-year anniversary...

Moujib al-Mikhlafi, a Yemeni education expert and trainer, has been arbitrarily detained by the Huthi de facto authorities since 10 October 2023 in Sana’a, Yemen. On 1 September 2024, a Huthi-affiliated TV featured him in what was portrayed as a “confession” video indicating that he was a member of...

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...