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Sri Lanka
Disappearances
13 years of a struggle for justice Imagine being detained or abducted by security forces. Now imagine they detain you, yet nobody has any idea where you are, or even if you are dead or alive. The authorities refuse to acknowledge your detention and keep your whereabouts a secret. You have no...
January 24, 2023
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Mozambique
Armed Groups
In response to a video being circulated on social media purportedly showing soldiers throwing dead bodies onto a pile of burning household items in the northern Mozambique province of Cabo Delgado, Amnesty International’s Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said: “The viral...
January 11, 2023
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Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The Huthi de facto authorities are continuing to use repressive tactics to suppress the right to freedom of expression and media freedom, and silence peaceful dissent in areas under their control. In this statement, Amnesty International has examined the cases of three imprisoned journalists...
December 20, 2022
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Europe and Central Asia
Asylum
Sifting through Facebook, Huwaida stumbled upon the footage she was dreading. But it was only when further photos of her uncle Anwar’s lifeless body emerged & a human rights organization on the ground confirmed it, that she knew for sure. Anwar was dead. Anwar from Sudan, was just one of...
December 13, 2022
Research
Asia and the Pacific
Disappearances
Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the enforced disappearance of Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone, we, the undersigned civil society organizations and individuals, renew calls on the Lao government to determine his fate and whereabouts and deliver justice, truth, and reparation to his...
December 13, 2022
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Africa
Armed Conflict
Responding to the Eritrean government’s ten-year silence on the whereabouts of Ciham Ali, an Eritrean American who was arrested on 8 December 2012 when she was just 15 years old and held in secret detention ever after, Flavia Mwangovya, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Research and...
December 7, 2022
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Iran
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
In their latest retaliation against the Afkari family for seeking accountability, the Iranian authorities have been arbitrarily detaining Elham Afkari since her arrest by Ministry of Intelligence agents on 10 November in Shiraz, Fars province, amidst the ongoing popular uprising in Iran. Her...
December 7, 2022
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Afghanistan
Disappearances
Amnesty International is gravely concerned as to the situation of Elaha Dilarwarzai, who, according to her family, was subjected to forced marriage, sexual violence and beatings at the hands of Qari Saeed Khosty, who was previously a spokesperson for the Taliban Ministry of the Interior (T-MOI)....
December 5, 2022
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Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The undersigned civil society organisations are writing to the Saudi Arabian authorities to express their grave concern for the wellbeing of detained human rights defender Dr. Mohammed al-Qahtani, who has been subjected to enforced disappearance since 24 October 2022. We urge you to disclose his...
November 24, 2022
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Egypt
Detention
Egyptian-British prisoner of conscience and prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has spent most of the last nine years arbitrarily detained, is in critical condition after more than seven months of hunger strike. His family raised concerns about his physical and mental state, after he told...
November 21, 2022
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Egypt
Disappearances
Egyptian-British prisoner of conscience and prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah is held incommunicado, amid the authorities’ refusal to allow his family or lawyer to see or contact him. In his last letter to his family on 31 October, he announced escalating his prolonged hunger strike by stopping...
November 10, 2022
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Middle East and North Africa
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The Saudi Arabian authorities have denied human rights defender Mohammed al-Qahtani contact with, and not disclosed his whereabouts to, his family since 24 October. Mohammed al-Qahtani is the co-founder of the now disbanded Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), formerly one of Saudi...
November 4, 2022