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Police officers detain a man in Moscow on September 24, 2022, following calls to protest against the partial mobilisation announced by the Russian President. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.

Russia: Surge in abuse of anti-terrorism laws to suppress dissent

A disturbing escalation in the abuse of vague anti-terrorism and anti-extremism legislation in Russia has intensified since the beginning of...

Ethiopia: Authorities must stop using state of emergency law to silence peaceful dissent. Private photo.

Ethiopia: Authorities must stop using state of emergency law to silence peaceful dissent

Ethiopian authorities have used the state of emergency to silence peaceful dissent by arbitrarily detaining prominent politicians critical of the...

A mourner lays flowers at a spontaneous memorial in memory of the deceased Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, organized at the monument to victims of political repression on Voskresenskaya Embankment on 16 Feb 2024. Photo by Artem Priakhin/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Russia: Authorities brutally suppress mourners of Aleksei Navalny

The Russian authorities have begun a widespread campaign of persecution against those paying respects to the late prisoner of conscience...

Palestinians riding on a cart are refected on a mirror in the shape of the map of Palestine in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip on February 7, 2024 amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant Hamas group. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images.

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  

Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since...

UN Security Council President and Ecuador's Permanent Representative, Jose de la Gasca (C), flanked by other UN ambassadors, speaks to the press prior to a security council meeting about the situation in Afghanistan at UN headquarters in New York City on December 20, 2023. Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images.

UN Doha meeting on Afghanistan must mark an end to impunity for human rights abuse under the Taliban

Ahead of the upcoming UN-convened meeting of Special Envoys on Afghanistan taking place in Doha, Qatar on 18 and 19...

Aleksei Navalny © Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Russia: Prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Kremlin’s most vocal opponent, dies in custody

“Following his poisoning, unjust imprisonment and torture in prison, Aleksei Navalny has died after languishing for 37 months behind bars...

Amnesty International Canada's Kathy Price testifies to the Standing Committee hearing

Amnesty International Canada shares concerns at parliamentary study of free trade negotiations with Ecuador

On February 13, Amnesty International Canada testified before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee on International Trade (CIIT) as part of...

Two women and a man, each wearing a dark suit with a Canadian flag on the left lapel, stand outdoors on a brick walkway in autumn.

Amnesty International Canada to make arguments in court in Black Class Action case

A judge has granted Amnesty International Canada's request to participate in a court hearing about the landmark Black Class Action...
Police and Rapid Action Force (RAF) personnel fire teargas and block a highway to prevent farmers from marching towards New Delhi during a protest demanding minimum crop prices, at the Haryana-Punjab state border in Shambhu near Ambala about 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of the capital on February 14, 2024. Photo by NARINDER NANU/AFP via Getty Images.

India: Right to peaceful protest under threat due to mounting restrictions and escalating crackdown on farmers’ march

Responding to the mounting restrictions and escalating crackdown by the Indian authorities on the ‘Dilli Chalo’ peaceful march of farmers,...

Julian Assange, editor in chief of WikiLeaks attends the Hay Festival on June 4, 2011 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales. (Photo by David Levenson/Getty Images)

UK/USA: Global media freedom at risk as Julian Assange back in UK court facing possible extradition to USA

In advance of Julian Assange’s next hearing in the UK courts ahead of his possible extradition to the US, Amnesty...

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés is the president of the women’s rights organization, Stop Violence. In this image, she has black tape across her lips.

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés Acquittal: Triumph in Free Speech Advocacy

Vanessa Mendoza Cortés acquittal on January 17, 2024, marked a significant moment in human rights advocacy. A court in Andorra...

Relatives of the Palestinians died in Israeli attacks, mourn as they receive the dead bodies from the morgue of Nasser Hospital for burial in Rafah, Gaza on December 19, 2023. The journalist Adel Zorob was among the people killed in Rafah city. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images.

Israel/OPT: New evidence of unlawful Israeli attacks in Rafah, Gaza causing mass civilian casualties amid real risk of genocide

Fresh evidence of deadly unlawful attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip, gathered by Amnesty International, demonstrates how Israeli forces continue...

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