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Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes new Ombudsman investigation into policing of the Black Lives Matter protestThere must be a fundamental reassessment of how the PSNI approaches the right to protest and to the necessary work of rebuilding their badly damaged relationship with Northern Ireland’s Black and Minority Ethnic communities.
Press release 26 May 2021 -
Occupied East Jerusalem: Israel should scrap Silwan forced evictions plansStatement ahead of an appeal hearing at the Jerusalem District Court tomorrow over the forced eviction of two Palestinian families in the Batn al-Hawa area of Silwan in occupied East Jerusalem.
Press release 25 May 2021 -
Black Lives Matter and the Right to ProtestLooking back at the BLM marches, it’s clear that the largest anti-racist protests in over a century should be celebrated – not used as an excuse to extend police powers, take away our freedoms and further entrench institutional racism.
Blog post 25 May 2021 -
UK: Landmark ruling confirms GCHQ mass surveillance violated human rightsThe Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights today that the UK government’s bulk interception of communications powers violated the rights to privacy and freedom of expression.
Press release 25 May 2021 -
Sierra Leone: Government must address mental health crisis following civil war and Ebola epidemic - New Report
Sierra Leone mental health crisis following civil war and Ebola epidemic - New Report
Press release 25 May 2021 -
Belarus: Urgent action needed to free Roman Protasevich after 'horrifying' forced confessionAmnesty International launches urgent action following televised statement by Roman Protasevich in which he appears distraught and injured
Press release 25 May 2021 -
China: Australian-Chinese writer held on 'baseless' spying charges must get fair trialStatement ahead of tomorrow’s trial in Beijing of Australian-Chinese writer Yang Hengjun on charges of espionage.
Press release 25 May 2021 -
Northern Ireland Abortion: Failure to commission services heads to courtAmnesty International and Informing Choices NI join the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission challenge on the lack of commissioning abortion services in the region
Press release 25 May 2021 -
Belarus: Students expelled, charged and jailed for opposing Lukashenka - New ReportBelarus: Students expelled, charged and jailed for opposing Lukashenka - New Report
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Northern Ireland: PSNI must end work with Israeli police and security servicesPress release 24 May 2021
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New Report: Delivering Human Rights In Scotland During COVID-19Blog post 24 May 2021 -
10 reasons why the Government needs to drop the Policing BillRead why we urged the government to scrap this Police Crackdown Bill. In a nutshell it puts too much power in the hands of the Government Ministers with not enough checks and balances to prevent those in power from harming people.
Blog post 23 May 2021 -
Belarus: journalist must be released after 'chilling' forced landing of Ryanair flightResponse to the apprehension of the prominent Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich - former editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel NEXTA - after his Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania was forced to make an emergency landing in the Belarus…
Press release 23 May 2021 -
Global Health Summit: G20 Leaders must push pharma companies to share life-saving technologyPress release 20 May 2021 -
Switzerland: Violence and racism in asylum centres run by private security companies - new reportPeople held in federal asylum centres operated by private security companies in Switzerland have been subjected to a range of abuse at the hands of security guards, including violence and coercive measures, the use of pepper gel and being locked in a…
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USA/Colombia: fresh evidence of US weapons being used against protestersAmnesty International is calling on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to immediately halt the flow of US weapons and equipment to Colombia after Amnesty verified visual evidence of US-made equipment being used by the Colombian security forces to…
Press release 20 May 2021 -
USA: Biden's newly-signed hate crimes legislation is 'major step forward'‘The US must confront and uproot the systems of white supremacy’
Press release 20 May 2021 -
Spain/Morocco: migrants subjected to violence and used as 'pawns' at Ceuta borderAmnesty International has denounced the mistreatment of migrants by Spanish security forces and the army at its border with Morocco in the north African Spanish territory of Ceuta.
Press release 19 May 2021 -
Amnesty UK welcomes new Chief Executive OfficerPress release 18 May 2021
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Belarus: Leading news site blocked and journalists interrogated
Belarus’ Ministry of Information has blocked a leading Belarusian news site TUT.by and raided its offices and interrogated editors at the outlet.
Press release 18 May 2021
