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Greece: Lives at risk as refugees pushed back to Turkey, Amnesty warns in new report

Spokesperson available on request Refugees trying to reach the EU via Greece from conflict-torn countries like Syria and Afghanistan are being unlawfully returned to Turkey by Greek coast and border...

Nigeria: Authorities must protect schools from deadly attacks

The Nigerian government must act to prevent attacks on schools to protect Children's rights’s lives and their right to education, said Amnesty International after 30 people were reportedly killed in...

Egypt: Amnesty calls for urgent, impartial investigation into deaths

Amnesty International is calling for an urgent independent investigation into the reported deaths of at least 51 people outside the Republican Guard headquarters today. Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy...

Egypt: new wave of abuses condemned

Amnesty International is warning against a crackdown on supporters of Mohamed Morsi after documenting a new wave of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, raids on media and an incident in which a...

Pakistan: Thousands of prisoners at risk if executions resumed

The new Pakistani government must not resume executions and should instead impose an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty as a first step towards abolition, Amnesty International said...

Egyptian security forces' failure to prevent violence seen as 'suspicious'

‘Our evidence raises questions as to whether the failure to protect all protesters … is the result of a deliberate policy by the security apparatus’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui Amnesty experts in Cairo...

Edinburgh Book Festival event: Using fiction to teach about the death penalty

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EVENT AT THE EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 5-6PM Award-winning author Annabel Pitcher discusses her book Ketchup Clouds Following the success of last year’s sell-out...

Russia and Ukraine colluding in region-wide renditions programme - new report

People abducted and sent back to torture and unfair trials in Central Asian countries ‘These renditions would not be possible without the complicity of public officials in the judicial and law...

UAE: conviction of 68 government critics after 'grossly unfair' trial condemned

‘The slick PR of the UAE is not enough to hide the fact that the trial was grossly unfair and that fundamental rights have been recklessly disregarded’ - Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui The conviction earlier...

Russia: New anti-gay laws an affront to basic human rights

President Vladimir Putin’s new laws criminalising blasphemy and outlawing public activism by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) individuals are an affront to freedom of