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UK: Home Secretary agreeing to Assange extradition would threaten media freedom

Priti Patel has until 18 May to decide whether to ‘certify’ today’s decision Prolonged solitary confinement is common in US maximum-security jails ‘Publishing information that is in the public...

Afghanistan: school bombings in ethnic Hazara area of Kabul 'inexcusable'

At least six people killed, though death toll may rise Journalists were prevented by the Taliban from reporting on the attacks ‘The Taliban, as the de facto authorities, are failing to protect...

Spain: prominent Catalans targeted with Pegasus - EU must act to end spyware abuse

Revelations come ahead of the first meeting of an inquiry into breaches of EU law associated with the use of Pegasus ‘The Spanish government needs to come clean over whether or not it is a customer of...

UK: Banishing people seeking asylum to Rwanda is 'appalling'

Responding to the announcement today (14 April) by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel to process some people seeking asylum in Rwanda, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant...

England: Letter to the Government calls for police to be removed from schools

Letter from Amnesty UK CEO Sacha Deshmukh to Priti Patel and Nadhim Zahawi says Child Q case in Hackney may amount to ‘torture or other ill-treatment’ Average of five children strip-searched by police...

Russia: More journalists arrested for critical coverage of war in Ukraine 

Responding to the news that Russian authorities have detained an editor-in-chief and a founder of local newspaper from the Russian Republics of Altay and Khakassia after they published content...

UK: Government plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda is 'shockingly ill-conceived'

In response to the UK government’s plan to send people seeking asylum to Rwanda to process their claims, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said:...

Russia: feminist activist could be jailed for ten years for putting anti-war slogans on supermarket labels

Aleksandra Skochilenko ordered to be detained until June by St Petersburg court ‘The war is contrary to all goals of the feminist movement’ - activist Ella Rossman A Russian anti-war artist and...

Nigeria: Eight years after Chibok more than 1,500 children abducted by armed groups

Of the 276 abducted Chibok children, 16 were killed and 109 remain unaccounted for Upsurge in abductions has led to school closures and rise in child marriage ‘The trauma of not knowing where my...

UK/Iran: daughter of Morad Tahbaz says she hopes Liz Truss has heard family's 'pleas'

Roxanne Tahbaz stands outside FCDO building calling for Foreign Secretary to ‘Bring My Dad Home’ ‘My father has been abandoned’ - Roxanne Tahbaz Following a “Bring My Dad Home” call by Roxanne Tahbaz...