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Secrets and Lies: Forced Confessions Under Torture in Uzbekistan
The U.S., Germany, and other European Union countries’ continuing ‘blind-spot’ to endemic torture in Uzbekistan ensures that appalling abuses will…
April 13, 2015
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The Human Rights Impact of Less Lethal Weapons and Other Law Enforcement Equipment
Law enforcement agencies around the world regularly misuse so-called “less-lethal” weapons and equipment for torture and their use can also…
April 10, 2015
Press Release
Americas: Leaders at regional summit must seize opportunity to address pressing human rights challenges
Deep social and economic inequalities, ongoing violence by criminal networks and security forces, as well as constant repression and criminalization…
April 9, 2015
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Their Lives On The Line
Women human rights defenders in Afghanistan who face mounting violence - including threats, sexual assault and assassinations- are being abandoned…
April 6, 2015
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Sudan: Entrenched Repression
With the general elections fast approaching in Sudan, the government’s clampdown on dissenting voices threatens the independence and freedom of…
April 2, 2015
Press Release
Thailand: Order ‘replacing’ martial law a renewed licence to violate human rights
Thailand’s announcement that it is lifting martial law and replacing it with new measures is little more than a cynical…
April 2, 2015
Press Release
Kenya: University attack highlights security failures
The horrific attack on a Kenyan university college by masked gunmen highlights the urgent need for the protection of students,…
April 2, 2015
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Death Sentences and Executions 2014
An alarming number of countries used the death penalty to tackle real or perceived threats to state security linked to…
March 31, 2015
Press Release
Malaysia: Human Rights “Black Hole” Expanding
The escalating “sedition” clampdown on the political opposition and activists in Malaysia points to an expanding human rights black hole.
March 31, 2015
Press Release
Spain: Two-pronged assault targets rights and freedoms of Spanish citizens, migrants and refugees
Draconian reforms to two pieces of Spanish legislation are an assault on the rights of its citizens as well as…
March 26, 2015
Press Release
Singapore: Death of Lee Kuan Yew
On the passing on Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Rupert Abbott, Amnesty International’s Research Director for Southeast Asia…
March 26, 2015
Press Release
Malaysia: Scores of arrests point to escalating crackdown
The arrests of scores of protesters as well as two human rights lawyers in separate incidents yesterday and today in…
March 26, 2015