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- Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan hospital and a prominent voice of Gaza’s decimated healthcare sector, is still being arbitrarily detained by Israeli authorities since his arrest on 27 December. A lawyer who visited him and other detainees, recently reported that he has been subjected to abuse and other ill-treatment. Join us in demanding his immediate and unconditional release.
- Lift the Blockade on Gaza. Stop the Genocide.
Palestinians in Gaza face an impossible choice: starve or risk being shot while trying desperately to reach food to feed their families.
Two months on from the launch of the Israeli government-controlled scheme, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, massacres at food distribution sites are happening almost every day. According to the United Nations, over 1,000 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food, including on aid routes and at distribution points. Thousands more have been injured.
The blockade of Gaza must end. UN-led humanitarian aid must be immediately restored.
- Break the Silence. End Human Rights Violations in Afghanistan.
Three years into the Taliban rule, the country remains a hotbed of unchecked and unabated human rights abuses – gender persecution, torture, arbitrary detentions, and censorship – all with zero accountability. The world’s response? Tepid at best.
Since the Taliban seized power in 2021, Afghanistan has been in a downward spiral of human rights violations. Women are banned from all aspects of life, abuses like torture and ill-treatment, arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, censorship, among others, continue with absolute impunity. Severe restrictions on right to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly, and political participation of women have gone unchecked. The return of corporal punishment and absence of an independent judiciary further exacerbates these issues, leaving victims without any recourse to justice.
Even as the people of Afghanistan remain stuck in this endless nightmare, the international community has failed to take any meaningful action.
Strong words won’t stop this repression; strong action will. Governments around the world must step up to put an end to this cycle of repression.
- Tell President Trump: No Mass Deportations!
Within hours of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared an emergency at the southern border, suspended the US Refugee Admissions Program, and reiterated a mass deportation plan targeting millions of immigrants and people seeking safety. This cruel campaign is spreading fear, throwing people into arbitrary detention, returning people to harm, separating families and tearing apart communities.
- Stop the Execution Spree in Iran
Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising, Iranian authorities have doubled down on their brutal use of the death penalty.
thousands at risk of execution
Urge the international community to press Iran establish an official moratorium on executions with a view to fully abolishing the death penalty
Since the Woman Life Freedom uprising, Iranian authorities have doubled down on their brutal use of the death penalty as a tool of oppression to terrorize the public and tighten their grip on power. Prisons have become sites of mass state-sanctioned killings. In 2023, executions soared with over 853 people executed, a 48% increase from 2022 and the highest number for eight years. This arbitrary deprivation of people’s lives must stop.
The spike in executions is largely attributed to the return of a lethal anti-narcotics policy since 2021. Authorities carried out over 481 drug-related executions in 2023, marking a 89% increase from 2022 and 264% increase from 2021.
The death penalty is also used to target oppressed minority groups. Iran’s oppressed Baluchi ethnic minority, who constitute only about 5% of Iran’s population, accounted for 20% of all executions. Individuals were also executed for their social media posts and for sexual relations between consenting adults.Iranian authorities are using the death penalty as a tool of political oppression to sow fear among the public and deter further nationwide protests. In 2023, they executed 7 people in connection to protests after grossly unfair sham trials.
Iran’s killing spree is continuing into 2024, with at least 95 recorded executions by March 20. Execution numbers recorded by Amnesty International are minimum figures and the organization believes the real number is higher.
On July 27, 2025, political dissidents, Behrouz Ehsani and Mehdi Hassani were executed in secret without notice to them or their families in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj, Alborz province. The executions took place after a grossly unfair trial by a Revolutionary Court. They were denied access to their lawyers for nearly two years before a trial that lasted only five minutes and during which they were not allowed to speak in their own defense. Forced ‘confessions’ extracted through beatings, prolonged solitary confinement and threats to further harm them and their families were used as evidence to convict them.
Learn More
Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless repression and renewed ‘war on drugs’ (April 4, 2024)
Iran: Prisons turned into killing fields as drug-related executions almost triple this year (June 2, 2023)
Iran: Executions of tortured protesters must trigger a robust reaction from the international community (May 19, 2023)What else you can do
Write a personal letter to Iranian authorities based on the April 4, 2024 Urgent Action: Drug-related executions surging in Iran.
Top image © Signs criticising the Iranian Islamic Regime’s use of the death penalty are seen in Trafalgar Square on September 16, 2023 in London, England. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images.
- Stop the crackdown in Bangladesh<div class="callToAction" role="note" aria-label="Bangladesh is witnessing the deadliest crackdown against protesters in the country’s post-independence history.“>
Protect the Protest.
Bangladesh is witnessing the deadliest crackdown against protesters in the country’s post-independence history.
Call on the government of Bangladesh to uphold human rights and end this repression.
Bangladesh is witnessing the deadliest crackdown against protesters in the country’s post-independence history. The heavy-handed response from the authorities has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of students, journalists, and bystanders, and injured thousands. Sign the petition now and demand that the government of Bangladesh urgently end this repression.
On July 1, 2024, university students launched protests to demand reforms in the existing quota-system which reserves 30% of government jobs for descendants of independence war veterans claiming that it unjustly favours supporters of the ruling party.
The protests were met with a severe crackdown by the authorities, resulting in hundreds of deaths. Thousands more people were injured. More than 10,000 are believed to have been arrested.
Amnesty International’s investigations show that security forces responded to the protests with unlawful, and sometimes lethal, force. The Bangladesh authorities also failed to prevent attacks against protesters allegedly carried out by members of the Bangladesh Chatra League (BCL), a group affiliated with the ruling party. The authorities issued a “shoot on sight” curfew and nationwide blackouts, cutting off the country from the rest of the world.
The rights and safety of Bangladeshis are at serious risk. Immediate action is needed to hold the authorities to account.
Learn more
Bangladesh: Further video and photographic analysis confirm police unlawfully used lethal and less-lethal weapons against protesters (25 July 2024)
Header image: 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.