AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 1. Many other NGOs have used the term apartheid to describe Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. How is Amnesty’s report different? Amnesty has concluded that Israeli authorities are enforcing […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 6/22 Tortured Iranian Kurdish prisoner Kamal Sharifi, unjustly jailed since 2008, has suffered irreparable harm to his health and faces risks to his life because […]

And what I saw on the inside has made me that much more determined to fight for human rights in my country. In July 2017, my wife Emelyne Mupfasoni and […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 114/21, UPDATE 2 BELOW Since 10 December, Russia’s Investigative Committee has arbitrarily removed four lawyers representing activist Lilia Chanysheva from the case, leaving her without a legal […]

Games take place amid worsening human rights situation International community must not be complicit in sportswashing exercise IOC should better protect athletes’ rights following Peng Shuai case The world must […]

DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 2/22 BELOW On 31 December 2021, men in civilian clothing arrested former Justice Minister Noureddine Bhiri and Fathi Beldi, a former Interior Ministry employee, in Tunis and took […]

GOOD NEWS UPDATE – Feb 24, 2022 After more than 914 days in unjust, arbitrary detention for peacefully defending water, the Supreme Court ruled that the Guapinol River defenders should […]

It’s been a busy year for Amnesty International with positive changes taking place around the world. Laws have been rewritten, awards have been won, prisoners of conscience released and our […]

José Daniel Márquez, Kelvin Alejandro Romero, José Abelino Cedillo, Porfirio Sorto Cedillo, Ewer Alexander Cedillo, Orbin Nahún Hernández, Arnol Javier Alemán and Jeremías Martínez Díaz, environmental defenders from the municipality […]

By Ketty Nivyabandi  One year ago, Germain Rukuki, a well-known activist from Burundi, was languishing in the overcrowded Ngozi jail, serving a 32-year sentence. UN experts determined that his charges, which included rebellion and […]

On a hot day of 10 August 2020, Mikita Zalatarou was standing at a bus stop in the central square of the city of Homel in south-eastern Belarus. Everyone around him […]

In response to the sentencing of Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns Ming Yu Hah said:  “The harsh sentences handed down to […]