Responding to the Iranian authorities’ use of a guillotine machine to amputate the fingers of three men in Urumieh Central Prison on 30 July as corporal punishment imposed after a grossly unfair, torture-tainted trial, Hussein Baoumi, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North ...
Reacting to the killing of Awda Al-Hathaleen, Amnesty International’s Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, Erika Guevara Rosas, said:  “The cold-blooded killing of Awda, a dedicated human rights defender and father of three young children, is a devastating tragedy...
Malagasy government violated right to freedom of movement and choice of residence of Antandroy IDPs Amnesty International research documents arduous 1,500km journey in search of survival French colonial policies contributed to Antandroy’s vulnerability to climate-exacerbated droughts lead...
As I looked up, I could see the back of some of the aluminum roofs from afar, but we still had to cross high grass to get to them. The place seemed isolated from the rest of the town. When we finally reached the entrance of the camp, we met the priest, who was sitting...