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Massive Unjust Detentions in El Salvador

The government of El Salvador’s President Bukele has suspended constitutional guarantees and unjustly put more than 60,000 people behind bars....

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Support Families Seeking Justice in Peru

Thousands of people took to the streets across Peru between December 2022 and February 2023 following the arrest and replacement...

Demonstrators gather on 29 November 2019 in the center of the Santiago de Chile, Chile to protest against the abuses of the security forces, including eye injuries from misuse of weapons. Photo by Federico Rotter/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

Take the Torture out of Protest! Regulate the Trade in Policing Equipment

Progress happens when we come together to demand change. We should be able to do this without fear of being...

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Yemen: Urgent Appeal for Detained Journalist, Ahmad Maher

Ahmad Maher, a 28-year-old journalist from Yemen, is currently detained and on a hunger strike. He was arrested by security...

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Egypt: Anas al-Beltagy’s Decade-Long Quest for Justice

For over a decade, Anas al-Beltagy has languished in arbitrary detention, solely due to his family affiliation. Since his arrest...

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Afghanistan: Stop punishing women protesters

Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily arrested,...

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Chile: UN experts alarmed over impunity

On November 27, 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions publicly...

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Egypt: Unfairly held student denied prosthetic leg

Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human...

Irina Danilovich

Russia: Unfairly jailed nurse at risk of complete hearing loss

Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist, was abducted by security officers in Russian-occupied Crimea in April 2022 and...

Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi

Iran: Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s health at risk

Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to torture...

Aleksandra Skochilenko is wearing an Amnesty T-shirt during a court session

Russia: Release artist sentenced to seven years in prison

On November 16, 2023, Aleksandra Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for “disseminating knowingly false information about the...

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests ©Nasser Ishtayeh/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Israel/OPT: Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests  

Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of administrative detention, a form of arbitrary detention, of Palestinians across the occupied...

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