Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Torture (727)
Feb 17 2021 10:00am
Iran: prisoner flogged 60 times at weekend and still at risk of amputation punishment
Thirty-three-year-old Hadi Rostami flogged for ‘disrupting prison orde...
Jan 29 2021 4:09pm
Indonesia: two men publicly flogged 77 times for same-sex 'offences'
Two men caned 77 times each in ‘cruel’ punishment in front of 100-stro...
Jan 27 2021 12:01am
Belarus: Protesters tortured and 'mercilessly beaten' following post-election protests - New Report
More than 900 abuses by police logged, but not one criminal investigat...
Jan 25 2021 12:00am
Egypt: detainees in severely overcrowded jails being denied healthcare - new report
Ten years on from 2011 protests, Sisi’s jails now packed with those at...
Jan 10 2021 11:59pm
USA: Joe Biden must close Guantánamo - new report
Joe Biden pledged to close the camp as Vice-President 40 people sti...
Dec 22 2020 10:59am
Why Did Austria Protect An Assad Regime Torture Chief?
Syrian human rights activists want states to hold Austria to account f...
Dec 14 2020 2:21pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Crimean Tatar rights defender sentenced
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentence...
Dec 10 2020 11:59pm
UK should commit to global ban on torture equipment as part of Brexit
UK set to leave EU system overseeing ban on torture equipment  UN m...
Dec 3 2020 1:18pm
Iran: six men face amputation punishments for 'robbery'
Men were convicted after grossly unfair trials involving torture-taint...
Dec 1 2020 11:59pm
Egypt: 'horrifying execution spree', with at least 57 killed in past two months
Number executed more than double for whole of 2019 Arrest of Egypti...