Thousands of Colombians claimed their right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, during months of demonstrations for justice and peace in 2021. Women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendent communities and […]

Amnesty International has devised 25 rules to try and stop human rights abuses being perpetrated through the improper use of rubber bullets and other projectiles by police and security forces, the organization […]

Law enforcement agencies across the USA are failing to facilitate people’s fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly, and to protect protests and counter-protests from violent disruption by armed groups […]

In response to reports of several deaths during recent days in the context of anti-corruption protests that began earlier this month in Haiti, Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, […]

On August 9, police in London arrested 522 people. More than 200 others had already been arrested in London and across the UK on previous weekends for peacefully opposing the […]

The US authorities are using automated artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance tools made by Palantir and Babel Street to deliberately target non-US citizens and pose risks to those who speak out […]

Saba Skhvitaridze, an activist in Georgia, was arrested on December 5, 2024, after joining peaceful protests against the government. Since his arrest, he has been denied access to a lawyer […]

On June 8, 2025, President Trump took federal control of 2,000 U.S. National Guard troops and deployed them to Los Angeles. This move followed two days of public protests against […]

Reacting to an announcement by Iran’s judiciary that the Iranian authorities this morning executed Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri in connection with the 2022 Woman Life Freedom protests in Iran, Amnesty International’s […]

Authorities in the occupied Gaza Strip must respect the right to peaceful assembly and freedom of expression and cease the ongoing repression of protesters, Amnesty International said today.   Over the […]

On March 14, 2025, a court in Türkiye acquitted 45 people of charges related to a peaceful protest in 2018. The group included relatives of victims of enforced disappearances who […]

On March 18, Hungary’s Parliament rushed through a new law that effectively bans Pride marches. It uses the country’s anti-LGBTI “Propaganda Law” to justify blocking events that show support for […]