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Thailand: A culture of torture under the military

Since seizing power in a 2014 coup, Thailand’s military authorities have allowed a culture of torture and other ill-treatment to…

September 23, 2016

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European paralysis forces tens of thousands of asylum-seekers to live in appalling conditions

One year on from promises to relocate over 66,000 asylum-seekers from Greece, just 6% relocated A year after EU leaders…

September 22, 2016

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Nigeria: You have signed your death warrant

A Nigerian police unit set up to combat violent crime has instead been systematically torturing detainees in its custody as…

September 20, 2016

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Honduras/Guatemala: Attacks on the rise in world’s deadliest countries for environmental activists

An insidious wave of threats, bogus charges, smear campaigns, attacks and killings of environmental and land activists in recent months…

August 30, 2016

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We are defending the land with our blood: Defenders of the land, territory and environment in Honduras and Guatemala

An insidious wave of threats, bogus charges, smear campaigns, attacks and killings of environmental and land activists in recent months…

August 29, 2016

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‘It breaks the human’: Torture, disease and death in Syria’s prisons

Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant…

August 16, 2016

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We Are Still Running: War Crimes in Leer, South Sudan

Amid a fresh outbreak of fighting in South Sudan, a new report by Amnesty International reveals the true horror suffered…

July 27, 2016

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You Don’t Exist: Arbitrary Detentions, Enforced Disappearances, and Torture in Eastern Ukraine

Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged arbitrary, and sometimes secret…

July 20, 2016

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Nepal: Torture and Coerced Confessions

A new report published today by Amnesty International reveals how members of the indigenous Tharu community in Nepal’s Tarai plains…

July 19, 2016

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Health taken hostage: Cruel denial of medical care in Iran’s prisons

Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate…

July 15, 2016

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Right cause, wrong means: Human rights violated and justice denied in Cameroon’s fight against Boko Haram

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016

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Right cause, wrong means: Human rights violated and justice denied in Cameroon’s fight against Boko Haram

More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and…

July 13, 2016