Figures recorded by Amnesty International during the first six months since Malaysian courts were granted sentencing discretion depict a significant decrease in the number of death sentences imposed or upheld. However, the cases identified also gave rise to concerns that systemic flaws and...

On 17 February, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) authorities released journalist Guhdar Zebari after more than three years of unjust imprisonment. Authorities in the KR-I arrested Guhdar Zebari in October 2020 along with four other journalists and activists. The Erbil Criminal Court sentenced...

Responding to the reports that Aleksei Navalny’s mother has been told her son’s body will not be released except for a secret burial, Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, said: “This is a blatant attempt by the Russian authorities to cause further suffering to an already...

Responding to the double public executions by the Taliban yesterday, Livia Saccardi, Amnesty International’s interim Deputy Regional Director for South Asia, said: “We oppose all executions as a violation of the right to life. The Taliban has been repeatedly carrying them out publicly which is a...

Tunisian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release six arbitrarily detained political opponents who have been held for a year while being investigated on unfounded accusations of “conspiracy against state security” because of their perceived political opposition to authorities and...

On 13 February, a grenade was thrown inside the home of a member of CREDHOS, hurting members of her family. This attack came after serious threats against civil society organizations working to defend human rights, territory, land, and the environment in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia,...

Responding to Amazon’s announcement today that the company has paid US$1.9 million to reimburse more than 700 workers contracted to its operations in Saudi Arabia, following an Amnesty International report in October 2023, Steve Cockburn, Amnesty International’s Head of Economic and Social Justice,...

Responding to the death of the 22- year-old farmer Shubhkaran Singh during the ‘Dilli Chalo’ Farmers’ march, Aakar Patel, chair of board at Amnesty International India, said: “The death of Shubhkaran Singh occurred amid a ruthless crackdown by the state authorities on the farmers protests in India....

Algerian authorities continue to clamp down on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly five years after the Hirak protest movement first began, said Amnesty International, by targeting critical voices of dissent, whether they be protesters, journalists or people expressing their...

There can be no justice for Ukrainians without full accountability for all crimes committed by Russia since its military intervention in 2014, Amnesty International said today, on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Since the 2014 occupation of Ukraine’s Crimea, Amnesty...