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Iran: man originally arrested aged 15 secretly executedThe Iranian authorities have secretly executed a young man who was a child at the time of his arrest and had spent nearly a decade on death row.
Press release 04 Aug 2021 -
Nicaragua: Fears of deepening human rights crisis as Ortega announces new presidential bidMore than 100,000 people have already fled country
Press release 03 Aug 2021 -
Ukraine: Vitaly Shishov's death must be thoroughly investigatedThe circumstances around Vitaly’s death suggest it is linked to the Belarusian authorities.
Press release 03 Aug 2021 -
Colombia: Authorities used lethal force to 'instil fear' among protestersPress release 02 Aug 2021 -
Northern Ireland: Call for new investigation into 2001 murder of journalist Martin O’HaganPress release 02 Aug 2021
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Saudi Arabia: fresh persecution following country's presidency of G20 - new reportSaudi Arabian has brazenly intensified its persecution of human rights defenders and dissidents after a lull in prosecutions during the country’s recent year-long G20 presidency, Amnesty International said in a new report.
Press release 02 Aug 2021 -
Belarus: Lukashenko makes sport a 'battleground' for athletes who dare to speak out against governmentKrystsina Tsimanouskaya among many athletes in Belarus facing reprisals from the government
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Lebanon: authorities 'brazenly' obstructing investigation into Beirut explosionPress release 02 Aug 2021 -
Myanmar: Military threatening health workers amid Covid-19 surgeThe military are reportedly hoarding oxygen, contributing to a national shortage.
Press release 30 Jul 2021 -
World's top ten venture capital firms all failing over human rights due diligence - new reportAll but one of the world’s largest venture capital firms have failed to put in place robust human rights due diligence policies, Amnesty International revealed today in a landmark new report.
Press release 30 Jul 2021 -
Hong Kong: Nine-year sentence under National Security Law 'a hammer blow to freedom of speech'Tong Ying-kit jailed for carrying a flag that read ‘Liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our times’.
Press release 30 Jul 2021 -
UK: Home Office 'forcing people to live in squalor is a repeated scandal'If the Home Secretary truly wished to fix the UK's asylum system, she would start by ending this repeated scandal of holding people
Press release 30 Jul 2021 -
Russia: latest 'foreign agent' raid targets leading investigative journalistReaction to a raid this morning on the Moscow apartment of the investigative journalist and editor, Roman Dobrokhotov, as well as the home of his parents.
Press release 28 Jul 2021 -
COVID-19: Michael Palin joins Amnesty call for UK to urgently redistribute vaccines
COVID-19: Michael Palin joins Amnesty call for UK to urgently redistribute vaccines
Press release 27 Jul 2021 -
Morocco: Uyghur man at imminent risk of deportation to ChinaAmnesty International is extremely concerned for the safety of an ethnic Uyghur man who faces possible deportation from Morocco to China where he would be at risk of torture.
Press release 27 Jul 2021 -
Tunisia: fears for human rights after presidential power grabPress release 26 Jul 2021
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Sierra Leone: Abolition of death penalty a 'major victory'
The West African state has become the 23rd country on the continent to end capital punishment
Press release 25 Jul 2021 -
Bangladesh: Online freedom of expression under threat as crackdown intensifiesJournalists, musicians and cartoonists amongst 433 people currently detained under Digital Security Act.
Press release 25 Jul 2021 -
Belarus: Government's latest crackdown on human rights groups 'another dark day' for the countryAuthorities have dissolved at least 46 NGOs, alleging that they carried out activities ‘beyond their charters’
Press release 23 Jul 2021 -
Global: Scale of secretive cyber surveillance 'an international human rights crisis' - new briefingNSO Group is complicit, as their technology enabled violations revealed in the Pegasus Project.
Press release 23 Jul 2021
