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Ukraine: Torture and Secret Detention on Both Sides of the Conflict Line
Both the Ukrainian government authorities and Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine are holding civilians in prolonged arbitrary, and sometimes secret…
July 20, 2016
Press Release
Cleveland Protests Appear Peaceful Thus Far
Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) has deployed human rights observers to monitor protests at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, OH,…
July 20, 2016
Report
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
Press Release
Alarm over reports of high civilian death toll from US-led coalition airstrikes on Manbij in Syria
U.S.-led coalition forces carrying out airstrikes in Syria must redouble efforts to prevent civilian deaths and investigate possible violations of…
July 19, 2016
Press Release
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
Press Release
Sulfuric acid factory behind health fears in Myanmar must be relocated
The Myanmar government must immediately order the relocation of a sulfuric acid factory built dangerously close to a village, which…
July 19, 2016
Report
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
Press Release
Nepal must investigate police torture of Tharu community members
A new report published today by Amnesty International reveals how members of the indigenous Tharu community in Nepal’s Tarai plains…
July 18, 2016
Press Release
Human rights in grave danger following coup attempt and subsequent crackdown in Turkey
Human rights in Turkey are in peril following a bloody coup attempt on July 15, which resulted in the deaths…
July 18, 2016
Press Release
Iran is putting political prisoners’ lives at risk by denying them medical care
Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate…
July 15, 2016
Report
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
Press Release
South Sudan: Security forces deliberately preventing people from leaving the country
South Sudanese security forces are deliberately blocking people from leaving the country in violation of their right to freedom of…
July 14, 2016