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Iran: removal of death penalty for some drugs offences welcomed‘If implemented properly, this long-overdue reform will spare hundreds from the gallows’ -
Press release 10 Jan 2018 -
Nigeria: Spate of killings by herdsmen and ethnic militias must be investigatedPress release 09 Jan 2018
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Iran: authorities must investigate five deaths in custody following protest crackdownPress release 09 Jan 2018 -
Syrian government must allow 529 sick and injured civilians out of Eastern Ghouta‘The Syrian government is cynically using these seriously injured and ill people as bargaining chips’
Press release 09 Jan 2018 -
Myanmar: Two Reuters journalists due in court must be releasedWa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo arrested while investigating military abuses against Rohingya.
Press release 09 Jan 2018 -
USA: ending of immigration status for Salvadorans is 'a devastating betrayal'Press release 08 Jan 2018
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Hungary: Retrial of Syrian charged with terrorism for throwing stones to concludePress release 08 Jan 2018
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London: Saudi Arabia Embassy vigil for jailed blogger Raif BadawiBlogger Raif Badawi has been in jail for over five years
Press release 08 Jan 2018 -
China: Tibetan activist faces 15 years after appearing in New York Times filmLanguage activist Tashi Wangchuk accused of ‘inciting separatism’
Press release 04 Jan 2018 -
Iran: at least 1,000 detained protesters at risk of torture
‘Peaceful protest is a right, and many people in Iran want to exercise that right’
Press release 04 Jan 2018 -
Iran protests: 1,000 demonstrators are now at risk of tortureIn the days following the biggest anti-government protests in Iran this decade, hundreds of detained demonstrators are now at risk of torture for their actions. Some may even face the death penalty.
Press release 04 Jan 2018 -
Ethiopia: release of political prisoners and closure of 'torture chamber' could signal new chapter for human rightsToday’s announcement could signal the end of an era of bloody repression in Ethiopia
Press release 03 Jan 2018 -
Yemen: Huthis sentence 52-year-old Baha'i prisoner of conscience to death‘The Huthi authorities must end their persecution of the Baha’i community and respect their right to freedom of religion’
Press release 03 Jan 2018 -
Emma Thompson, Stephen Fry and Vivienne Westwood write open letters to demand end to human rights abusesCelebrities have joined more than one million people who have written letters calling on authorities to end the detention or persecution of individuals, as part of Amnesty Write for Rights campaign
Press release 29 Dec 2017 -
Afghanistan: 'gruesome' Kabul attack underscores dangers for civiliansPress release 28 Dec 2017
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2017: A 'bad year to be brave' as activists are targeted around the worldAmnesty decries a pattern of attacks on activists around the world in 2017
Press release 27 Dec 2017 -
China: 'cynical' verdicts against two human rights activists on day after Christmas condemnedPress release 26 Dec 2017
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Russia's homophobic laws leading to an anti-LGBTI crackdown in other countries in the region - new report'Russian influence and the reach of its media has played a significant role in further worsening the situation for LGBTI groups in the region'
Press release 22 Dec 2017 -
United Nations sends global rebuke to Trump's reckless Jerusalem policyPress release 21 Dec 2017
