Somalia: Further information: Journalist released and all charges dropped:...
On 17 August, plain-clothed security officers arrested Mohamed Ibrahim Osman Bulbul, a journalist with Kaab TV and staff member of a local media advocacy organization, Somali Journalists Syndicate. The...
View ArticleIran: Further information: Jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate’s health at...
Iranian authorities have been subjecting arbitrarily detained human rights defender and 2023 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Narges Mohammadi to torture and other ill-treatment by deliberately denying or...
View ArticleRussian Federation: Further information: Artist sentenced to seven years in...
On 16 November 2023 Aleksandra Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison for “disseminating knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces”. In March 2022, Aleksandra Skochilenko...
View ArticleAnna: “I’m deemed a security threat because I dared to use my voice”
Children and young people across Thailand are taking a risk by standing up for their rights and leading mass protests, despite a ruthless crackdown by the authorities. At least 286 children have been...
View ArticleFossil Fuels: Bad for the climate, bad full stop.
As the realities of climate change become ever more real – wildfires, droughts, extreme temperatures, flooding – the calls for a complete phase out of fossil fuels are more urgent than ever. But...
View ArticleRussian Federation/Ukraine: Imprisoned nurse may fully lose hearing: Irina...
Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist, was abducted by security officers in Russian-occupied Crimea in April 2022 and sentenced to seven years imprisonment following an unfair trial. She...
View ArticleChina’s White Paper Movement: One year on, six protesters share their stories
On 24 November 2022, at least 10 people died in an apartment fire in the city of Urumqi, northwest China. They were reportedly prevented from escaping due to strict covid-19 controls. The tragedy...
View ArticleChile: UN experts alarmed over impunity in Chile
On 27 November 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions publicly called on Chilean authorities to “advance the prosecution...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Further information: Education activist Matiullah Wesa released
Education activist Matiullah Wesa was released after nearly seven months in prison. He was jailed for promoting girls right to education. The post Afghanistan: Further information: Education activist...
View ArticleMexico: Climate displaced people need a home urgently
On 13 November, 69 people from “El Bosque” community (Tabasco) were forced to leave a temporary shelter in Frontera Village due to inhumane conditions and treatments. They were placed there temporarily...
View ArticleEgypt: Unjustly held student denied prosthetic leg: Oqba Hashad
Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human rights activism. Security forces subjected him to enforced disappearance for 77...
View ArticleGeneration 2048: time to resist, disrupt and transform
2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Born from the ashes of World War II under the shadow of the very worst of humanity, the UDHR held out the promise...
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How three environmental defenders are fighting fossil fuel injustice and...
The Americas is the world’s deadliest region for those defending land, territory and the environment. As companies and authorities continue to destroy and pollute the places Indigenous People call...
View ArticleTunisia: Opposition figure arbitrarily detained: Abir Moussi
On 3 October 2023, days after expressing her interest in running for the next presidential elections, security forces arrested opposition figure Abir Moussi. She had been trying to submit an appeal...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Stop punishing women protesters
Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily arrested, and detained and subjected to torture and...
View ArticleUA: BURKINA FASO: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED : Daouda Diallo
On 1 December, Daouda Diallo, secretary general of the Coalition Against Impunity and Community Stigmatization, was abducted by security forces in civilian clothes while he was renewing his passport at...
View ArticleOn the Side of Humanity podcast
This podcast series explores the last 25 years of defending human rights. Amnesty International’s Tatyana Movshevich meets courageous activists from Chile, the U.S., Nepal, Ireland and Ghana who are...
View ArticleRussian Federation/Ukraine: Spanish national forcibly disappeared by Russia:...
Russian authorities have forcibly disappeared Mariano García Calatayud, a 75-year-old Spanish volunteer humanitarian worker whom their forces had abducted from occupied Kherson, in Ukraine, in 2022....
View ArticleAzerbaijan: Jailed academic’s health deteriorates: Gubad Ibadoghlu
Gubad Ibadoghlu is a renowned political economist and civil activist. On 23 July 2023, the Azerbaijani authorities detained him on fabricated charges of the production, acquisition, or sale of...
View ArticleUSA: Jury voted for life, State resets execution
Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on 25 January 2024. His jury voted for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, but the judge imposed a death sentence, under a judicial...
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