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If you see it, you will cry: Life and death in Giwa barracks
Eleven children under the age of six, including four babies, are among 149 people who have died this year following their detention in horrendous conditions in the notorious Giwa barracks detention center in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Amnesty International reveals today.
May 10, 2016
Press Release
Nizami execution in Bangladesh will not deliver justice
The execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami today is a deplorable move by the Bangladeshi authorities which will not deliver justice to the victims of war crimes, Amnesty International said today. Nizami, the current chief of Bangladeshi political party Jamaat-e-Islami, was hanged at Dhaka Central Jail today. He was sentenced to death by the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) in Bangladesh in October 2014 after he was convicted of charges relating murder, torture, rape and the mass killing of intellectuals during Bangladesh’s War of Independence in 1971.
May 10, 2016
Update
Sole witness to Berta Cáceres murder: “It was clear she was going to get killed”
The armed men who burst into the house of Honduran Indigenous leader Berta Cáceres on 3 March had a simple plan: find her, kill her, and leave.
May 9, 2016
Press Release
Mexican indigenous environmental activist named prisoner of conscience
A Mexican man unfairly imprisoned in what appears to be a punishment for his peaceful activism against illegal logging must be released immediately and unconditionally, Amnesty International said as it named him a “prisoner of conscience.”
May 9, 2016
Press Release
EU: Council must end commercial advertising of brutal tools of torture in Europe
The European Union (EU) must immediately crack down on the unhindered commercial advertisement within its member states of security equipment potentially used to inflict cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment on people, said Amnesty International and the Omega Research Foundation in a new report published today.
May 9, 2016
Press Release
The death penalty will not deliver security in Afghanistan
The death penalty will deliver neither the justice that victims deserve nor the security that Afghanistan seeks, Amnesty International said today.
May 9, 2016
Press Release
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
Press Release
Trial of former first lady Simone Gbagbo opens in Côte d’Ivoire
While today’s trial of former first lady Simone Gbagbo is an important step towards ending impunity in Côte d’Ivoire, Amnesty International maintains that the Ivorian authorities should reconsider their refusal to comply with their obligation to surrender her to the International Criminal Court (ICC) pursuant to an arrest warrant against her on charges of crimes against humanity.
May 9, 2016
Update
Jailed in El Salvador after losing their pregnancies
For many of us around the world, Mother’s Day falls on May 8th this year, which also marks Teodora’s 36th birthday. Teodora has spent eight years in prison, and will spend yet another birthday and another Mother’s Day, which comes just two days after ours, without her family.
May 8, 2016
Update
“I will never stop” – a mother’s campaign to free her son in Iran
Iranian spiritual teacher and prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri has been in pre-trial solitary confinement for five years, and has launched over a dozen hunger strikes in protest at his detention. His mother Ezat tells us of her long fight for his release. The day my son was arrested, every single cell inside my body was trembling with fear.
May 6, 2016
Press Release
Ethiopia must release opposition politician held for Facebook posts
The Ethiopian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release a prominent opposition politician facing a possible death sentence on trumped-up terrorism charges over comments he posted on Facebook, said Amnesty International.
May 6, 2016
Press Release
Reckless closure of world’s biggest refugee camp in Kenya will put lives at risk
The Kenyan government’s decision to close down two large refugee camps, including the world’s biggest at Dadaab, is likely to put thousands of innocent lives at risk, said Amnesty International today.
May 6, 2016