Responding to the hanging of five people by the Kuwaiti authorities yesterday including one convicted of a drug-related offence, Rawya Rageh, Amnesty International’s Interim Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said:  “The Kuwaiti government has now executed a dozen people in less...

In response to what is believed to be the first execution of a woman in Singapore in two decades, and the country’s second execution in under a week, Amnesty International’s death penalty expert Chiara Sangiorgio said: “This week has cast a harsh and tragic spotlight on the complete lack of death...

A massacre broke out on 22 July in del Litoral, Ecuador’s largest prison, in the city of Guayaquil. The first reports pointed to several deaths, as well as hunger strikes, and 137 prison guards taken hostage simultaneously in several prisons around the country. The president declared a state of...

Parliament Should Strengthen Oversight; Further Limit Broad, Unqualified Powers South Sudan’s parliament should revise the pending National Security Service Amendment Bill to bring an end to the agency’s arbitrary arrests and other abusive practices, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch...

The imminent removal of the offending clauses in the 2014 NSS Act brings hope that a repressive and fearsome agency will be subject to the rule of law and civilian authority. To this end, we urge duty bearers to strengthen weak gaps and enforcement mechanisms so that the NSS can no longer violate...

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are seriously concerned about Jordan’s draft cybercrimes law currently being debated in the Jordanian Parliament. The draft legislation will jeopardize digital rights, including freedom of expression and the right to information, and will...

The Iranian authorities are doubling down on their oppressive methods of policing and severely oppressing Iranian women and girls for defying degrading compulsory veiling laws, Amnesty International said today. In a detailed analysis published today, the organization exposes the...

Zimbabwe’s upcoming general election will take place in the context of  five years of systematic, brutal crackdowns on human rights, including recent restrictions on political opposition gatherings, the violent suppression of protests and the criminalization of state critics, Amnesty International...

On the occasion of the review of Cameroon during the 44th session of the UPR Working Group, in November 2023, Amnesty International submitted a list of recommendations to the country.

Badr Mohamed is serving an unjust five-year prison sentence following his conviction in January 2023 in connection to the Ramsis Square protests on 16 August 2013, when he was 17 years old. His trial before a terrorism circuit of the Cairo Criminal Court was grossly unfair. He is held at the Badr...

Alberto Nallar, human rights lawyer who played a very active role in the protests in the Jujuy Province that began on 15 June, was detained on 13 July and charged with the crime of sediton. Since 14 July, Alberto Nallar has been under house arrest.

The Iranian authorities are doubling down their oppressive methods of policing and punishing women and girls to quell widespread defiance of degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws since the popular “Woman. Life. Freedom” uprising in September 2022, severely violating their social,...