Prominent Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has spent 52 months arbitrarily detained simply for exercising his human rights. On 20 December 2021, he was convicted on bogus charges and sentenced to five years in prison, following a grossly unfair trial. Alaa Abdel Fattah, who has spent...

Ukrainian citizen Oleksandr Marchenko, imprisoned in Russia on fabricated charges of espionage, continues to be harassed and ill-treated in custody. The penal authorities have intermittently placed Oleksandr Marchenko in punishment or confinement cells on spurious grounds and deny him contact with...

On 16 November 2022, Saudi authorities arrested 29-year-old Manahel al-Otaibi. She has been forcibly disappeared since November 2023. She was charged with violating the Anti-Cyber Crime Law due to her tweets in support of women’s rights as well as posting photos of herself at the mall without an...

Amnesty International submits this information to the UN Human Rights Committee (the Committee) in advance of its consideration of the eighth periodic report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) at the 140th session of the Committee to be held between 4 to 28 March 2024.

The unfair mass trial of 84 Emirati men, including human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience Ahmed Mansoor, Mohammed al-Roken and Nasser bin Ghaith, on charges under an indictment that has so far been kept secret, is ongoing. On 7 February 2024, during the fifth trial session before the...

This document, compiled by the undersigned organizations, is a summary of submissions made by civil society organizations in relation to Yemen’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) during the upcoming 46th session of the UPR Working Group. It highlights critical human rights concerns and priorities in...

The Huthi de facto authorities must urgently halt planned executions and end the persecution of people based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, said Amnesty International, after two Huthi-run courts in Yemen sentenced more than 40 individuals either to death, flogging...

Reacting to the proposed amendments to the Malagasy Penal Code, which now allow for chemical and surgical castration as punishment for rape against minors, Tigere Chagutah, Regional Director of Amnesty International in East and Southern Africa, said: “In Madagascar, rape cases remain...

Kurdish man Reza Rasaei, from the Yaresan religious minority, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising after the Supreme Court rejected a request for judicial review on 16 January. His death sentence was issued following a grossly unfair trial that relied on...

Amnesty International submits to the United Nations Human Rights Committee information concerning the human rights situation in Chile for consideration at its 140th session.

Tortured protester Abbas Deris is at grave risk of execution after the Supreme Court rejected his request for a judicial review in January 2024. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial in relation to the November 2019 nationwide protests. His lawyers have submitted a special appeal...

Fatma al-Arwali, a 34-year-old woman human rights defender, is at risk of execution after the Huthi-controlled Specialized Criminal Court in Sana’a, Yemen, convicted her of ‘aiding an enemy country’ and sentenced her to death on 5 December 2023 following a grossly unfair trial. Since her arrest in...