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Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people thus far in 2025, the highest number of yearly executions in Iran that the organization has recorded in at least 15 years, said […]

A new report by Amnesty International reveals how the militarization of public security in Ecuador has facilitated enforced disappearances at the hands of the Armed Forces, leaving entire families in […]

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Between June and August, 26 fisher families from San Silvestre, Barrancabermeja, were forced to leave their homes after receiving threats to their safety. On July 5 and again on August […]

Authorities in Iran are waging a terrifying crackdown under the guise of national security in the aftermath of the June 2025 hostilities with Israel, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The deepening […]

Cấn Thị Thêu, a prominent human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, has been jailed for five years. She recently told her family about serious health problems. Reports also suggest […]

On July 16, the Abidjan Court of Appeal confirmed the conviction and two-year prison sentence of union leader Ghislain Duggary Assy. He had been convicted in April 2025 of “obstructing […]

On August 13, 2024, human rights defender Joaquín Elo Ayeto was taken to Oveng Azem prison in Equatorial Guinea. Authorities accused him of illegal activities linked to Somos+; a civil […]

Israel is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being and social fabric of Palestinian life, Amnesty International said today as it […]

On July 27, journalist Selma Inocência Marivate informed Amnesty International that she believes she was poisoned with heavy metals during a work trip to Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, in […]