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India: Release Journalist Prabhat Singh (UA 69/16)
A journalist from the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has been arrested and charged for allegedly sharing a message on Whatsapp criticising the state police. If convicted he could…
Urgent Action
Chad: Quash Sentence Against Four Activists (UA 68/16)
Four Chadian activists arrested and charged for planning to organise peaceful public demonstrations have received a four month suspended prison sentence.
Update
Beaten, Arrested & Facing a Decade Behind Bars
On March 10, 2015 hundreds of student protestors were at a standstill near the city of Letpadan in Myanmar. They had reached the eighth day of a standoff between largely…
Update
365 Days of War in Yemen
One year ago today, an international coalition led by Saudi Arabia launched air strikes against the Huthi armed group in Yemen sparking a full-blown armed conflict. Over the following year,…
Press Release
Syrian refugees in Jordan blocked from accessing critical health services
The combination of grossly inadequate support from the international community and barriers imposed by the government of Jordan are leaving Syrian refugees unable to access health care and other vital services, said…
Press Release
Malaysia: Stop execution of prisoner due to be hanged on Friday
The Malaysian government must halt the execution of a 34-year-old man due to be hanged this Friday for murder, said Amnesty International.
Press Release
New government in Myanmar must break vicious cycle of repression and political arrests
Myanmar’s new government will take office with a historic opportunity to change course on human rights but must break away from the deeply repressive legal framework that for years has…
Report
Living on the margins: Syrian refugees struggle to access health care in Jordan
The combination of grossly inadequate support from the international community and barriers imposed by the government of Jordan are leaving Syrian refugees unable to access health care and other vital services, said…
Report
New Expression Meets Old Repression: Ending the Cycle of Political Arrests and Imprisonment in Myanmar
Myanmar’s new government will take office with a historic opportunity to change course on human rights but must break away from the deeply repressive legal framework that for years has…
Press Release
Apple v FBI: Undermining encryption opens a Pandora’s Box for human rights
Government attacks on the encryption of online communication threaten human rights around the world, warned Amnesty International in a briefing published today as tech giant Apple challenges the US Federal…
Press Release
Student imprisoned in Egypt for wearing anti-torture T-shirt hours away from release
Egypt’s authorities must expedite the release of a 20-year-old prisoner of conscience who has spent more than two years in pre-trial detention in a case of outrageous injustice, said Amnesty…
Press Release
Turkey forcibly returns dozens of refugees to Afghanistan hours after EU deal
Turkey’s forcible return of around 30 Afghan asylum seekers just hours after the European Union (EU)-Turkey refugee deal came into force shows that implementing the deal would risk refugees’ lives…