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AIUSA Statement on Mass Shooting in Uvalde, Texas
As details emerge from Texas about yet another mass killing, including of school children, Amnesty International USA’s Campaign Manager for Ending Gun Violence, Ernest Coverson, issued the following statement: “We…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: GOVERNMENT WITNESSES RETRACT TESTIMONY (Philippines: UA 48.22)
Three witnesses against prisoner of conscience Senator Leila de Lima have retracted their testimonies against her. They include a former government official who remains a prosecution witness and whose testimony…
Report
Death Penalty 2021: State-Sanctioned Killings Rise as Executions Spike in Iran and Saudi Arabia
2021 saw a worrying rise in executions and death sentences as some of the world’s most prolific executioners returned to business as usual and courts were unshackled from Covid-19 restrictions,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: HALT IMMINENT EXECUTION OF TWO BAHRAINI MEN (Saudi Arabia: UA 46.22)
Jaafar Mohammad Sultan and Sadeq Majeed Thamer, two Bahraini Shi’a men, are at imminent risk of execution in Saudi Arabia. The Specialized Criminal Court sentenced them to death in October…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: VENEZUELAN DEFENDERS FACE CRIMINALIZATION (Venezuela: UA 47.22)
On May 16, 2022, recognized Venezuelan human rights defenders Marino Alvarado and Alfredo Infante received notification of a defamation lawsuit filed against them by the governor of Carabobo state, Rafael…
Press Release
Scrap Plans for Forced Transfer of Palestinian Bedouin Village Ras Jrabah in the Negev/Naqab
Israeli authorities must scrap plans to demolish a Palestinian Bedouin village and forcibly transfer its residents to a segregated Bedouin-only town, Amnesty International said today. Â On May 22 and 23…
Press Release
UN Human Rights Chief Must Seize Critical Opportunity to Address Crimes Against Humanity in XinjiangÂ
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights must address crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations when her team visits China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region this week, Amnesty International said…
Press Release
US Officials Must Lift Title 42 Without Further Delay
Today, expulsions under Title 42 were meant to end, yet this inhumane practice continues due to a recent federal court decision that ruled against lifting the pandemic-related asylum restriction. Responding…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: VENEZUELAN PHOTOGRAPHER ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Venezuela: UA 45.22)
Carlos Debiais, a Venezuelan photographer, was detained on November 12, 2021 and has been arbitrarily held in Caracas since April 12, 2022, when a release warrant was issued in his…
Report
FIFA Should Match $440M World Cup Prize Money to Fund Major Compensation Program for Abused Migrant Workers in Qatar
FIFA should earmark at least $440M to provide remedy for the hundreds of thousands of migrant workers who have suffered human rights abuses in Qatar during preparations for the 2022…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: LIFE OF JAILED AND BEATEN ACTIVIST AT RISK (Egypt: UA 132.19)
Dual Egyptian-British national activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has been on hunger-strike since April 2, 2022, in protest of his unjust imprisonment, cruel detention conditions and denial of consular visits. In…
Press Release
The Rights of Ukrainian Prisoners of War from Azovstal Must be Respected
Responding to the news that the Ukrainian soldiers who were besieged in Mariupol’s Azovstal steel plant for months have surrendered themselves to Russia’s armed forces, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s Deputy…
