Chow Hang-tung, a young human rights lawyer, is imprisoned in Hong Kong for holding vigils to commemorate the victims of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. Hundreds – possibly thousands – of […]

One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient […]

A disturbing escalation in the abuse of vague anti-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation in Russia has intensified since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Amnesty International […]

Journalist Gregory Gondwe is now in hiding after his exposé on the Malawi Defense Force’s interactions with a businessman under corruption scrutiny. After releasing his findings on January 29, high-level […]

On January 31, 2024, a Kuwaiti appeals court sentenced Mohammad al-Barghash, an advocate for the stateless Bidun community in Kuwait, to three years in jail for “spreading false news.” This […]

Air strikes by the Myanmar military killed 17 civilians – including nine children – as they gathered to attend church last month, Amnesty International said in a new investigation. The […]

Bulldozer Injustice: JCB brand machinery weaponized as a tool in hate campaign against minorities in India India’s widespread unlawful demolitions of Muslims’ homes, businesses and places of worship through the […]

With the world’s eyes fixed on Gaza, Israeli forces have over the past four months unleashed a brutal wave of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, carrying out […]

Victor Yeimo, a pro-independence activist from Papua, was unfairly arrested for his role in peaceful protests against racial discrimination in Indonesia. On May 5, 2023, he was cleared of treason […]

Narges Mohammadi and Zeynab Jalalian, both long-term women human rights defenders, have been repeatedly targeted and detained for their human rights work. Amnesty International is calling for their immediate and […]

Myanmar’s military has unlawfully killed, arbitrarily detained and stolen from civilians as it struggles to contain the heaviest outburst of armed resistance since the 2021 coup, Amnesty International said today. […]

On October 24, 2021, journalist Bassem al-Zaak was abducted while he was live-streaming a sit-in organized by a political bloc in Baghdad to protest the results of the parliamentary elections. […]