The Sierra Leonean authorities must ensure truth, justice, and reparations for those killed during the August 2022 protests which turned violent, Amnesty International said today, on the first anniversary of the burial of protesters and bystanders killed. More than 20 protesters and bystanders, and...

Four years on from the repressive police response to the social protests and victims have yet to receive full reparations, no progress has been made in the structural reform of the Carabineros (Chile’s national police), and there is continuing impunity in the country, said Amnesty International on...

Following the request from the Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin asking the prefects in France to ban all pro-Palestinian demonstrations, Jean-Claude Samouiller, President of Amnesty International France said: “The ban on all demonstrations in support of the Palestinians in France...

Responding to the arrest  of Youba Siby in Senegal and his subsequent transfer to Mauritania, Firmin Mbala, researcher at Amnesty International’s regional office for West and Central Africa, said: “The Criminal Investigation Division informed Amnesty International of the arrest of activist Youba...

Reading the news can be really depressing. Sometimes there seems to be so much wrong in the world, the idea of changing it for the better feels impossible. But as Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign shows, you can make a big difference by doing something “little”.  Writing a letter,...