The Iranian authorities’ relentless onslaught against weekly peaceful protests by thousands of protesters and worshippers from Iran’s oppressed Baluchi minority in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchistan province, escalated on Friday 20 October, as security forces resorted to severe beatings, unlawful use...

Responding to the first anniversary of the repression of protests against a proposed two-year extension of President Mahamat Idriss Deby’s term in office, which left more than 100 people dead and nearly a thousand injured, Samira Daoud, Director of Amnesty International’s Regional Office for West...

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...

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...

Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups flagrantly violated international law and displayed a chilling disregard for human life by carrying out cruel and brutal crimes including mass summary killings, hostage-taking, and launching indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israel, Amnesty International...

Amnesty International has detailed in its submission to the Committee a decade of widespread violations of Iran’s obligations under the International Covenant on CIvil and Political Rights. The organization urges the Committee to highlight this crisis of systemic impunity and call on Iran to...

Responding to the unlawful killings of two people by armed separatists in the town of Guzang in the North-West region of Cameroon on 4 October, Amnesty International’s West and Central Africa Director, Samira Daoud, said: “This heinous crime is yet another manifestation of the daily horror...

Responding to the enforced disappearance of Samira Sabou, a Nigerien journalist and blogger who was taken from her home on 30 September by masked men who identified themselves as members of the security services, Ousmane Diallo, Sahel researcher at Amnesty International’s regional office for West...

This year will mark the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document, the result of extensive negotiations between the countries that comprised the recently created United Nations, aimed to establish a series of basic agreements to guarantee freedom,...

Despite having made some progress in the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa students, in recent months the Mexican authorities have acted in a way that could affect access to truth, justice and reparation for the victims and their families, Amnesty International said today....