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Afghanistan: Filmmaker tortured and denied care in Taliban prison

Sayed Rahim Saidi, a 57-year-old filmmaker and managing director of Anar Media, was arrested near his office on July 14,...

Iran: Six men at risk of execution after flawed trial

Six men—Abolhassan Montazer, Akbar (Shahrokh) Daneshvarkar, Babak Alipour, Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, Pouya Ghobadi, and Vahid Bani Amerian—face imminent execution in...

Israel/OPT: Release pediatrician and hospital director

On December 27, 2024, the Israeli military raided Kamal Adwan Hospital in Mashrou’ Beit Lahiya. During the raid, they detained...

Iran: Kurdish activist faces execution after unfair trials

Verisheh Moradi, a member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, faces the death penalty after a deeply unfair trial in Tehran’s Revolutionary...

Egypt: Unjustly jailed politician’s son’s health at risk

Anas al-Beltagy has been unjustly detained for almost 11 years, punished solely because of his family ties. Since his arrest...

Azerbaijan: Gubad Ibadoghlu denied life-saving surgery

Azerbaijani economist Gubad Ibadoghlu is currently under house arrest on politically motivated charges. He is not allowed to leave the...

Iran: Kurdish activist faces death sentence

Pakhshan Azizi, a Kurdish activist and humanitarian worker from Iran, is at risk of execution. A Revolutionary Court in Tehran...

Egypt: : Free Mahmoud Hussein, the “T-Shirt Detainee”

On June 26, 2024, Egypt’s Emergency State Security Court sentenced Mahmoud Hussein to three years in prison. He was arrested...

Activists demonstrate in front of the Bangladesh High Commission (embassy) in the capital Colombo on July 22, 2024, demanding an end to a government crackdown against protesters opposing a controversial job allocation quota system. © ISHARA S. KODIKARA/AFP via Getty Images.

Protect the Protest in Bangladesh and Iran

In a world with increasing inequality and persisting discrimination, armed conflict, authoritarianism and crises of governance, as well as mounting...

North-east Syria: Men held in a security force detention facility. Illustration by Colin Foo. © Amnesty International

New law paves way for justice for prisoners convicted in flawed trials in north-east Syria

Responding to the recent decision of the Autonomous Administration of the North and East Syria Region (autonomous authorities) to issue...

Abusive Israeli law used to arbitrarily detain Palestinians from Gaza indefinitely without charge or trial Unlawful Combatants Law legalizes incommunicado detention, enables enforced disappearance and must be repealed Harrowing torture testimony from 27 former detainees, including a 14-year-old boy

Israel must end mass incommunicado detention and torture of Palestinians from Gaza

Israeli authorities must end their indefinite incommunicado detention of Palestinians from the occupied Gaza Strip, without charge or trial under...

Saudi Arabia: Teacher sentenced to 20 years for tweets

On May 29, 2024, Saudi Arabia’s Specialized Criminal Court sentenced 47-year-old teacher Asaad bin Nasser al-Ghamdi to 20 years in...

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