The Pakistan government’s ban on the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) and the use of anti-terrorism laws to target activists and peaceful protesters from minority groups is an affront on the rights to freedom of association and peaceful assembly in the country, said Amnesty International today. The...

In the leadup to next month’s COP29 climate summit in Baku, states must exert pressure on the Azerbaijani authorities to reverse their clampdown on civil society, release those detained solely for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, and ensure participants including...

Monday 7 October 2024 marks a year since the horrific attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 abducted. It also marks one year since the start of an ongoing devastating Israeli onslaught that has killed more than...

Responding to the news that Singapore authorities executed a man for a drug-related offence on Friday, Amnesty International’s Acting Deputy Regional Director for Research Kate Schuetze said: “Azwan bin Bohari’s execution was clearly unlawful under international law and standards. It is especially...

In view of the rampant human rights violations against migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees in Tunisia, especially those who are Black; Tunisia’s lack of an asylum system; the Tunisian government’s crackdown on civil society, judicial independence, and the media; and the impossibility of fairly...

Ukrainian teachers in Russian-occupied territories have been faced with the agonizing choice between fleeing their homes or being forced to deliver a curriculum that aims to indoctrinate students with Russian state propaganda, Amnesty International said on the eve of World Teacher’s Day. As the...

The Togolese authorities must immediately conduct an investigation into the serious violence that took place on 29 September during a conference organized by the opposition political party Convention Démocratique des Peuples Africains (African Peoples’ Democratic Convention – CDPA), Amnesty...

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...

Ahead of the verdict expected on 3 October, in the case against Aike Beishekeeva, Makhabat Tazhibek-kyzy and nine other current or former journalists from independent media outlet Temirov LIVE and its partner project Ayt Ayt Dese, who face up to six years in prison on politically motivated charges...

Responding to the repression and arrests on 1 October during the #FearlessOctober peaceful protests against the cost-of-living crisis and bad governance, Isa Sanusi, Director Amnesty International Nigeria, said:  “The Nigerian authorities must end their repressive approach to peaceful protests and...

Proposed changes threaten fair trial rights, empower abusive officials The Egyptian Parliament must reject a proposed draft law that would replace the 1950 Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), Amnesty International, Dignity, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists said today. If...