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How much would you risk for basic women’s rights?Here in the UK and in my home country, USA, women are often put in positions in which our physical safety and bodily autonomy are at risk, but at the same time, we haven’t really had to fight for our rights in the way many other women and girls around…
Blog post 04 Mar 2020 -
Egypt: 37 death sentences imposed after deeply unfair terrorism trial‘We are calling on the Egyptian authorities to retry the defendants’
Press release 02 Mar 2020 -
Equatorial Guinea: Human rights defender releasedA prominent human rights defender has been released from detainment, after nearly a year in prison. He gives his thanks to Amnesty International for all of the work we have done to achieve his release.
27 Feb 2020 -
Venezuela: Prisoner of conscience's life at great riskA 60-year-old Venezuelan labour rights activist with hypertension is being denied medical treatment in prison.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Feb 2020 -
Journalist jailed and at risk of tortureA journalist is being held in pre-trial detention on false charges of "inciting religious discord" for his work.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Feb 2020 -
Eighth update: Activist reports ill-treatment in prisonIranian officials subjected human rights defender Narges Mohammadi to ill-treatment during her transfer to Zanjan Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Feb 2020 -
Benin: Journalist sentenced for "harassment"A Benin court has sentenced a journalist for "harassment" for quoting the Public Prosecutor in a tweet.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Feb 2020 -
Chad: Human rights defender held incommunicadoThe President of the Chadian Human Rights Organization was taken by armed men on 24 Jan and is being held incommunicado.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2020 -
Egypt: tortured Bologna University student must be releasedHe was tortured at a secret location, including with electric shocks
Press release 10 Feb 2020 -
Report: China's mass internment, torture, and persecution of MuslimsAmnesty International's report on the mass internment, torture and persecution of Muslims in Xinjiang in China.
Reports and publications 07 Feb 2020 -
Saudi Arabia: counter-terrorism court used to crush peaceful opposition - new report‘Our research gives the lie to the shiny new reformist image Saudi Arabia is trying to cultivate’
Press release 05 Feb 2020 -
Iraq: security forces kill at least 12 protesters in renewed crackdownVideo & eyewitness evidence show live ammunition used against unarmed protesters
Press release 24 Jan 2020 -
Outcome: Sentencing of two young men upheldA Russian court confirmed the six-year-long sentences for prisoners of conscience, Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jan 2020 -
Iraq: Human rights lawyer forcibly disappearedA 29-year-old lawyer, representing arrested protesters, was abducted by armed men on 6 Oct. His whereabouts are unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jan 2020 -
Guantánamo: psychologists who created CIA torture techniques to testifyJames E Mitchell & John ‘Bruce’ Jessen responsible for waterboarding and other abuse
Press release 18 Jan 2020 -
Giulio Regeni: London and Cambridge vigils for murdered university studentSimilar Truth for Giulio vigils set to take place in various towns & cities in Italy
Press release 17 Jan 2020 -
Human rights defender held incommunicado
Human rights defender continues to be detained after being tried for "defamation" and "threats" against the president.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2020 -
Opposition members at high risk of attackAttacks on representatives and staff linked to opposition parties in Venezuela’s National Assembly began in December.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2020 -
Seventh update: Death sentences upheld on appealThe death penalty has been upheld in the case of two men who gave confessions under torture.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jan 2020 -
Saudi Arabia: why Amnesty will not attend 'sham' C20 meetingsAbysmal human rights record despite attempted sportswashing
Press release 13 Jan 2020
