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Iran: Husband of hunger-striking human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested

Responding to the arrest in Iran this morning of Reza Khandan, the husband of prominent jailed human rights lawyer Nasrin...

TAIWAN: First Execution under New Presidency Condemned

Amnesty International UK PRESS RELEASE 39-year-old man executed by firing squad this morning – had originally received a life sentence...

Kenya: Real-time reporting to lift the lid on police killings, abductions

Kenyans will be able to share information about police extra-judicial killings and abductions in real time, using a new online...

Eswatini: Forced evictions expose flawed land laws as hundreds face homelessness

The Eswatini government must halt forced evictions which have left hundreds of people homeless and pushed them deeper into poverty,...

AUSTRALIA: Denying Entry To Chelsea Manning Would Send ‘Chilling Message’ on Freedom of Speech

AI UK Press release In response to the news that the Australian government is considering denying American activist Chelsea Manning...

China: Systematic repression of ethnic minorities laid bare in UN findings

In response to the release of concluding observations on China by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial...

Mexico: Peña Nieto insists on covering up the truth about 43 forcibly disappeared students

In reaction to the video released today by Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto in relation to the enforced disappearance of...

Open letter urges Google not to capitulate on human rights to gain access to China

Google’s reported plans to launch a censored search engine app in China would represent an alarming capitulation on human rights,...

Yemen: Scathing UN report underscores need for arms embargo, tougher scrutiny

Responding to a scathing report published today by the United Nations Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (GEE) which concludes...

UN: Decisive action needed to ban killer robots – before it’s too late

As rapid technological advances bring “killer robots” ever closer to reality, Amnesty International is calling on states to support the...

Detention of Hong Kong pro-democracy activists when visiting mainland China must be investigated

In response to reports that two members of Hong Kong pro-democracy party Demosistō were detained and interrogated by Chinese state...

Myanmar: Shameful anniversary highlights lack of accountability for atrocities against Rohingya

World leaders’ failure to act has allowed the Myanmar security forces’ perpetrators of crimes against humanity to remain at large...

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