On 31 July 2018, a judicial hearing at the High-Risk Court of First Instance “A” for Criminal Justice, Drug-Trafficking and Environmental Crime, will be held in the cases of six territorial and environmental rights defenders in the north of the department of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. In the legal...

To the Cambodian government and political parties participating in Cambodia’s July 29 national election: Amnesty International calls on the Cambodian government and all political parties participating in the national election scheduled for 29 July 2018 to commit to ensuring that Cambodia’s...

Responding to the fact that Turkey’s the state of emergency will not be renewed when it expires at the end of the day, Fotis Filippou, Amnesty International’s Deputy Europe Director said: “Whilst the lifting of the two-year state of emergency is a step in the right direction, it needs to be...

• Health budget slashed by over 50 per cent in four years• Students forced to choose between classes and work• Anti-austerity protesters repressed and arrested, some tortured A host of austerity measures implemented by the Chadian authorities is pushing people into deeper poverty, undermining...

The repressive actions of the Nicaraguan government have reached deplorable levels, Amnesty International said today, after one of the bloodiest weekends since the repression of protests began almost three months ago. “Heavily armed pro-government groups remain at large, accompanied by police...

There was no stopping this moment. Not even the hundreds of police officers present, heavily armed with dogs, tear gas and rubber bullets could prevent it. Last Sunday in Turkey, the LGBTI+ community and their friends proved that in Istanbul, love and solidarity are much more powerful than...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned by the failure by national authorities to hold to account those suspected to be responsible for the grave human rights violations and crimes under international law committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s Kasai region: Out of a dozen cases...

For years, authorities and law-enforcement agencies routinely outlawed peaceful protests, used disproportionate force against demonstrators and limited citizens’ right to freedom of peaceful assembly. With the election of a new government in March 2018, Sierra Leone now has a chance to put in...

Amnesty International welcomes Burundi’s acceptance of 125 recommendations, but regrets that the government rejected almost as many. While Burundi has agreed to implement a number of recommendations on important points of principle, such as the need for accountability, it has not accepted...

Algerian authorities must stop summarily deporting migrants and arbitrarily restricting the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, association and religion, Amnesty International said today. The UN Human Rights Committee, which monitors state parties’ compliance with the International...

When 60-year-old Julia regained consciousness on a street in central Poznan in 2016, she was lying in a puddle of water. Someone was sitting on top of her and people around her were shouting: “Let her be!” A few hours earlier she had left work to join a protest against a proposal for a near...

This report is a follow-up to the October 2017 Amnesty International report Poland: On the Streets to Defend Human Rights. It documents the state response to peaceful protest in Poland. In light of the high volume of prosecutions of peaceful protesters and the related importance of an independent...