In response to the passing of the first reading of a controversial new amendment to the Israeli Penal Law making it mandatory for Israeli courts to impose the death penalty against individuals convicted of killing an Israeli “either intentionally or recklessly” if the act is motivated by...
Ahead of the trial that begins on 12 November in Paris of Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a Congolese armed group leader accused of complicity in crimes against humanity, including killings, torture and rape, that were committed in North Kivu province in 2002 and 2003, Amnesty International’s Dep...
Reacting to the forthcoming reading in Kazakhstan’s parliament of draft amendments that would ban so-called “LGBTI propaganda”, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: “Together with Kazakhstani civil society we call on lawmakers to reject t...
A conversation with Prisoner of Conscience Osman Kavala, by Amnesty International Türkiye’s Günal Kurşun A few weeks ago, as we approached the sombre milestone of Osman Kavala’s eighth year of unjust imprisonment, I visited him in the high security wing of Istanbul’s infamous jail, colloq...
On the fifth anniversary of the fatal shooting of Inocêncio de Matos, on his way to participate in a protest, in Luanda, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Vongai Chikwanda said: “Five years on, the relatives of Inocêncio de Matos are still awaiti...
In response to the third time that Diana Loginova (aka Naoko) and Aleksandr Orlov, street music performers from the band Stoptime, are being held in administrative detention, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The repeated ...
Responding to the deaths of refugees and migrants on a boat that sank off the coast of Malaysia, Amnesty International’s Myanmar Researcher Joe Freeman said: “This latest tragedy at sea in Southeast Asia once again lays bare the deadly risks faced by Rohingya Muslims who attempt to flee co...
Somali authorities and the international community have repeatedly failed to protect thousands of people from drought-affected communities in southern Somalia, exposing them to violations of their rights to food, water, family, health and life, Amnesty International said in a new report. ‘...
Marking 30 years since the Nigerian government’s brutal execution of nine leading environmental activists – the Ogoni Nine – for fighting to protect the Niger Delta from oil giant Shell, Amnesty International is calling for their full exoneration. The anniversary coincides with the start o...
The HRE Networks is excited to introduce the Human Rights Education (HRE) Network Advisory Group, a new collective of HRE practitioners from across Amnesty International who will be working together to strengthen our global HRE network and support HRE as a core capacity in our movement. Th...
