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Pakistan: End the crackdown on opposition protests

Pakistan’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release hundreds of opposition activists, lift restrictions on their movement and take all appropriate…

October 31, 2016

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Pakistan: Drop travel ban on Dawn journalist

Pakistan’s authorities must immediately revoke a travel ban on a leading journalist and allow the media to operate freely and…

October 11, 2016

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Pakistan: Stop execution of death row prisoner with mental disability

Pakistan’s authorities must not execute Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a history of mental illness, Amnesty International said…

September 26, 2016

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Pakistan: Where is Zeenat Shahzadi?

As the International Day of the Disappeared is marked around the world, Pakistan’s authorities must promptly, thoroughly and effectively investigate…

August 29, 2016

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Attack on Quetta hospital in Pakistan an abhorrent disregard for the sanctity of life

An apparently pre-planned suicide attack, which killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 50 others in a hospital…

August 8, 2016

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Pakistan: End impunity for so-called ‘honor’ crimes

The Pakistani authorities must end impunity for so-called ‘honor’ killings and other violence against women, Amnesty International said today. “The…

July 19, 2016

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Human rights defender is killed in Pakistan

Pakistani authorities are failing to protect human rights defenders, Amnesty International said today following the killing of a prominent activist.

May 9, 2016

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Pakistan: Investigation crucial after Karachi political activist tortured and killed in custody

Pakistani authorities must carry out an independent, thorough and transparent inquiry into the torture and death of political activist Aftab…

May 4, 2016

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Ai Weiwei, Snowden, Pussy Riot take place of online ads to protest censorship

Messages from Edward Snowden, Ai Weiwei and Pussy Riot will be broadcast across the internet by AdBlock and Amnesty International…

March 10, 2016

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Pakistan: Execution no way to deliver justice for Salman Taseer murder  

The taking of another life is no way to ensure justice for the murder of Salman Taseer and Pakistan must…

February 29, 2016

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Amnesty International’s Annual State of the World Report Slams Governments, Including the U.S., for Global Assault on Freedoms

On the launch of its 2015 State of the World report, Amnesty International USA urged President Obama to use his…

February 22, 2016

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Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International

International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led…

February 18, 2016