Responding to the news that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has enacted a new anti-torture law that fails to address a decade of torture, ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions carried out by Syria’s security forces, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to seven of the states under review at the 40th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January/February 2021. The countries covered are Iceland, South Sudan, Timor Leste, Togo, Uganda, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Bangladeshi authorities have imprisoned at least 433 individuals under the country’s draconian Digital Security Act (DSA), according to the country’s Department of Prisons as of 11 July 2021. This briefing examines cases under the DSA – a law that contains overbroad and vague provisions...

Amnesty International submission for the Universal Periodic Review on Venezuela. This submission includes an analysis of the recommendations made in the previous review, the national human rights framework and the current human rights situation in the country. Amnesty International formulates a...

Uganda’s government must use its latest term to reverse the ongoing deterioration in respect for human rights, said Amnesty International ahead of President Yoweri Museveni’s sixth swearing-in as leader of the east African country. Museveni was announced winner with 58.6% of the votes in elections...

Uganda’s government must use its latest term to reverse the ongoing deterioration in respect for human rights, said Amnesty International ahead of President Yoweri Museveni’s sixth swearing-in as leader of the east African country. Museveni was announced winner with 58.6% of the votes in elections...

Non-governmental organizations, including Amnesty International, were deeply encouraged to learn that the Council of Ministers has approved ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (UNCAT) and the International Convention for the...

In its 2018 review of Canada, the UN Committee against Torture identified four areas of concern to be included in an interim report by Canada within one year. That report was submitted on February 21, 2020. Amnesty International is providing this submission with respect to the four areas identified...

Each year, around a third of Thailand’s young men are made to serve in the armed forces, under the country’s compulsory military service laws. Amnesty International has found that the Thai military routinely subjects these new conscripts to a barrage of physical violence, humiliation and sexual...

The joint INGO oral statement urged the Council to hold Sri Lanka accountable to its obligations under international law. Given the Sri Lankan government’s announcement that it will not continue to engage with the clear framework agreed through resolution 30/1; the failure of past domestic...

This document contains suggested recommendations to be made to seven of the states under review at the 35th session of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) in January 2020. The recommendations concern Guinea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Spain, Sweden and Turkey.

The brutal beating of 24-year-old student activist Asim Omar Hassan by prison guards in Kober prison must be independently and thoroughly investigated and those responsible brought to justice, Amnesty International said today as he was admitted to hospital. According to his lawyers, on 3 October –...