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Afghanistan: 'Suffocating crackdown' on rights of women and girls over past year under TalibanDetained protesters beaten on breasts and between legs ‘so they cannot show world’
26 Jul 2022 Press release -
Myanmar: First executions in decades mark atrocious escalation in state repressionThe four men were convicted in highly secretive and unfair trials
25 Jul 2022 Press release -
Russia: prosecutors relaunch vicious campaign against artist Yulia TsvetkovaThe LGBTI activist was acquitted just one week ago, on 15 July,
22 Jul 2022 Press release -
UK: Government attacks on human rights lawyers are putting them in ‘serious’ dangerProminent international human rights lawyer, Caoilfhionn Gallagher has received death threats including one saying she will be murdered like Pat Finucane
22 Jul 2022 Press release -
Singapore: Amnesty calls for an end to executions as fifth person hanged in under four monthsNazeri bin Lajim was executed in Singapore today after being handed the mandatory punishment for drug-related offences
22 Jul 2022 Press release -
Ethiopia: 'Horrific' massacre of 400 ethnic Amhara must be investigated immediately
Most of those killed were unarmed women and children, including newborns
20 Jul 2022 Press release -
Sri Lanka: 'Chilling' emergency regulations must not lead to further human rights violationsAmnesty is very concerned such regulations will serve as a springboard for a further crackdown on people's fundamental freedoms.
20 Jul 2022 Press release -
UK: new trade deal with Israel must not be a betrayal of Palestinians' human rightsAmnesty International has said that a new UK trade deal with Israel “must not be a betrayal of Palestinians’ human rights”, as negotiations on the deal are set to begin later today.
20 Jul 2022 Press release -
Israel/OPT: 1,000 West Bank residents, including 500 children, brace themselves for large-scale demolition of homesMasafer Yatta communities have been hit by wave after wave of demolitions in recent weeks
19 Jul 2022 Press release -
Thailand: Pegasus spyware found on phones of dissidents involved in mass protests
Pegasus spyware found on phones of dissidents in Thailand
18 Jul 2022 Press release -
Protect the Protest: Amnesty warns against allowing those in power to make protest a crimeFind out why we have launched a new global campaign to confront governments’ widening and intensifying efforts to erode the fundamental human right. Download our briefing here.
18 Jul 2022 Press release -
Russia: 'Unjust and cruel' prison sentence handed to opposition activistAndrei Pivovarov, former head of the UK-based Otkrytaya Rossiya (Open Russia) movement sentenced to four years in prison
15 Jul 2022 Press release -
Iran/Sweden: life sentence for 1988 prison massacres is 'step toward justice'14 Jul 2022 Press release
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Sri Lanka: Amnesty urges authorities to not use military to police protests14 Jul 2022 Press release
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Belarus: Journalist sentenced to eight years in prison on 'absurd and baseless treason charges'
Katsyaryna Andreeva accused of state treason
13 Jul 2022 Press release -
Poland: Hearing of activist accused of aiding an abortion scheduled for tomorrowFirst case in Europe of an activist being prosecuted for aiding an abortion by providing pills
13 Jul 2022 Press release -
Biden warned not to embolden abusive governments on Middle East tripPresident Joe Biden must fulfil his promise to put human rights at the centre of his first visit to the Middle East and North Africa
13 Jul 2022 Press release -
Afghanistan: Amnesty calls for urgent investigation into allegations of war crimes by UK Special Forces12 Jul 2022 Press release
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USA: Executive order good news for abortion rights but greater access to healthcare urgently needed
USA: Executive order good news for abortion rights but greater access to healthcare urgently needed
08 Jul 2022 Press release -
Russia: Councillor in Moscow sentenced to seven years in jail for opposing the Ukraine warA court in Moscow sentenced Aleksei Gorinov to seven years in jail for criticising Russia’s military actions in Ukraine
08 Jul 2022 Press release
