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Syria: US-led Coalition ‘deeply in denial’ about civilian casualties in Raqqa
The US-led Coalition’s flurry of responses rejecting the findings of a recent Amnesty International report on the devastation wrought by their aerial bombardment of Raqqa last year demonstrates how deeply in…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender Marks One Year in Prison (Burundi: 32.18)
Human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Germain Rukuki was arrested one year ago on 13 July 2017. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison on 26 April 2018.…
Press Release
Afghanistan: Record high civilian casualties make returns unjustifiable
The international community cannot abandon the Afghan people who have fled conflict and violence at a time when civilian casualties continue at record highs, Amnesty International said today, calling on…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Fate and Whereabouts of Policeman Unknown (Belarus: UA 133.18)
Former Chechen policeman Artur Aydamirov, 34, disappeared on 8 June in Brest, Belarus, after learning in early 2018 that he is required to perform military service in Syria. He decided…
Report
Chad: People forced to pay a heavy price for harsh austerity measures
A host of austerity measures implemented by the Chadian authorities is pushing people into deeper poverty, undermining access to necessary health care and putting education beyond the reach of many,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Release Critically Ill Human Rights Defender (Turkmenistan: UA 97.14)
Mansur Mingelov, sentenced to 22 years imprisonment in an unfair trial in retaliation for complaints about torture in police detention, is critically ill with tuberculosis contracted in prison. He must…
Press Release
Cameroon: Credible evidence that Army personnel responsible for shocking extrajudicial executions caught on video
An investigation by Amnesty International experts has gathered credible evidence that it was Cameroonian soldiers depicted in a video carrying out the horrific extrajudicial executions of two women and two…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Politician Faces 7 Trumped Up Criminal Charges (Maldives: UA 125.18)
Faris Maumoon, an opposition politician in the Maldives, was sentenced to four months and 24 days in prison for identity fraud, and is facing five other politically motivated criminal charges.…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! – Environmentalist Conditionally Released (Cuba 109.18)
Prisoner of conscience and environmental activist, Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt. On 3 July he was released with conditions.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! – Environmentalist Conditionally Released (Cuba 109.18)
Prisoner of conscience and environmental activist, Dr. Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt. On 3 July he was released with conditions.
Report
Disappearances and torture in southern Yemen detention facilities must be investigated as war crimes
Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said in a new report today that documents egregious violations going…
Update
Trump-Putin Helsinki Summit: Human Rights Must be Front and Center
On July 16, President Trump will meet with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. No formal agenda for the summit has been released but, given the severity of multiple…