Kyrgyzstan: Unprecedented crackdown on civil society threatens human rights...
The Kyrgyzstani authorities are unleashing an unprecedented crackdown on the country’s civil society, Amnesty International said today, as it released a statement highlighting how the government has...
View ArticleYemen: Huthis must stop executions and release dozens facing LGBTI charges
The Huthi de facto authorities must urgently halt planned executions and end the persecution of people based on their real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity, said Amnesty...
View ArticleUK/USA: Global media freedom at risk as Julian Assange back in UK court...
In advance of Julian Assange’s next hearing in the UK courts ahead of his possible extradition to the US, Amnesty International reiterates concerns that Assange faces the risk of serious human rights...
View ArticleRussia: Anti-terrorism legislation misused to punish activist Boris Kagarlitsky
Reacting to the sentencing on the prosecution’s appeal of renowned Russian sociologist and Marxist activist Boris Kagarlitsky to five years in a penal colony, on spurious charges of “justification of...
View ArticleItaly: Parliament’s ratification of dangerous automatic detention deal with...
Responding to the Italian Senate’s decision to ratify an agreement on detaining people rescued at sea by Italian ships in two detention centres in Albania, Matteo De Bellis, Amnesty International’s...
View ArticleGreece: Same-sex marriage recognition, key milestone in fight against...
Reacting to today’s passing of a bill in Greece recognizing same-sex marriage and, as a result, allowing same-sex couples to adopt, Amnesty International Greece’s Campaigns Coordinator, Despina...
View ArticleRussia: Prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Kremlin’s most vocal...
“Following his poisoning, unjust imprisonment and torture in prison, Aleksei Navalny has died after languishing for 37 months behind bars and being sent to one of Russia’s most remote and harshest...
View ArticleVenezuela: the government’s escalating repression and attempts at evading...
The undersigned international organizations strongly condemn the announced expulsion of the members of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Venezuela, as...
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Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and...
Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since 1967, said Amnesty International, as public hearings begin at the International...
View ArticleRussia: 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 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,...
View ArticleSwitzerland: Court decision on ethnic profiling case must send clear message...
Ahead of the ruling tomorrow by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Wa Baile v Switzerland, Amnesty International Switzerland’s Legal Advisor Alicia Giraudel, said: “The court’s...
View ArticleRussia: 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 Aleksei Navalny, Amnesty International said today, as peaceful...
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Tunisia: Release and drop charges against opposition activists arbitrarily...
Tunisian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release six arbitrarily detained political opponents who have been held for a year while being investigated on unfounded accusations of...
View ArticleArgentina: Amnesty International makes submission to Argentine criminal...
Argentine courts are fully competent to investigate, prosecute and criminally punish the perpetrators of crimes against humanity committed in Venezuela, Amnesty International said in a submission...
View ArticleHungary: Propaganda Law has “created cloud of fear” pushing LGBTI+ community...
The 2021 Propaganda Law which curtails discussions and portrayals of LGBTI people in schools and in the media and has had a far-reaching impact on LGBTI individuals and groups in Hungary, entrenching...
View ArticleRussia: Oleg Orlov, imprisoned following appeal against sham trial, must be...
Responding to the news that Oleg Orlov, a prominent human rights defender, has been sentenced to two years and six months in prison following an appeal hearing against his earlier conviction and fine,...
View ArticleItaly: ‘New hope’ as prosecutor recognizes that charges against the Iuventa...
Reacting to the prosecutor’s recognition that charges against the Iuventa ship’s crew members should be dropped, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Regional Researcher, said: “We welcome today’s...
View ArticleFrance: Enshrining abortion in the constitution “a bulwark against...
Responding to a vote by the French Congress to enshrine abortion as a guaranteed freedom in the French constitution, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Agnès Callamard, said: “This historic...
View ArticleIran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through...
Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting...
View ArticleRussia: Journalist sentenced to seven years for speaking out against war
Reacting to the news that a court in Russia sentenced RusNews journalist Roman Ivanov to seven years in a penal colony for spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian Armed Forces,...
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