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Africa
Disappearances
States agree landmark treaty to help deliver justice to victims of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes
May 26, 2023
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Africa
Disappearances
The victims of the late Chadian President Hissène Habré have yet to receive court-ordered reparations, seven years after his landmark conviction in Senegal in 2016, seven Chadian and international organizations said today. Just days before the anniversary, two more victims’ leaders passed...
May 26, 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
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Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Journalists Mohammed al-Salahi and Mohammed al-Junaid continue to be detained by the Huthi de facto authorities in Hodeidah, Yemen, despite the expiry of their sentences on 20 June 2022 and 13 July 2022 respectively. Since their arrest in 2018, the journalists were subjected to a series of gross...
May 25, 2023
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Philippines
Disappearances
Indigenous Peoples’ rights defenders Dexter Capuyan and Gene Roz Jamil “Bazoo” de Jesus, from the Cordillera region in northern Philippines, have been missing since 28 April 2023, in a suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces. Their families received credible information that two...
May 16, 2023
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Iran
Death Penalty
Six men – Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s persecuted Ahwazi Arab minority face imminent execution. A Revolutionary Court used their torture-tainted “confessions” to sentence them to death in February after a grossly...
May 12, 2023
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Iraq
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Amnesty International publishes the following letter received from the Government of Iraq on 2 April 2023 in response to an open letter (ref: MDE 14/6433/2023) sent by the organization to Prime Minister Al-Sudani on 23 March 2023 titled “Open Letter to Prime Minister Al-Sudani: End Iraq’s Reign of...
May 4, 2023
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Americas
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Five years on, far from ending its policy of repression to subdue dissenting voices and any kind of criticism, the Nicaraguan government continues to expand and reinvent it and incorporate new patterns of violations, said Amnesty International in a new report today. A cry for justice: 5 years of...
April 18, 2023
Research
Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
We, the undersigned organizations issued a joint statement calling on all parties to the conflict in Yemen to immediately release all those who have been arbitrarily detained, and to reveal the fate of those who have been forcibly disappeared since the conflict began in late 2014, and to disclose...
April 17, 2023
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Europe and Central Asia
Detention
On 18 January 2023, Germany deported Abdullohi Shamsiddin to Tajikistan, where he was subject to enforced disappearance and then reportedly held in solitary confinement by the State Committee for National Security. He is targeted because of his relationship with one of the leaders of the Islamic...
April 11, 2023
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Americas
Detention
Salvadoran authorities have systematically committed grave human rights violations since a state of emergency and numerous legislative amendments were approved in March 2022, supposedly to tackle gangs, said Amnesty International today. This policy has resulted in more than 66,000 detentions, most...
April 3, 2023
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Iran
Death Penalty
German-Iranian political dissident, Jamshid Sharmahd, is at risk of execution after being sentenced to death for “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel-arz) following a grossly unfair trial. Since July 2020, the Iranian authorities have been subjecting him to enforced disappearance, torture and other...
April 3, 2023