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Julian Assange should not be extradited to USA

If Sweden pursues extradition over rape allegation, there should be assurances over not sending Assange to USA Following the arrest of the WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy...

Sudan: military authorities must break with al-Bashir's 'deeply repressive' rule

Amnesty International calls on the Sudanese authorities to turn al-Bashir over to the International Criminal Court Responding to the ousting of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir in a military coup...

South Korea: top court orders abortion law reform in historic victory for women's rights

Country’s highly restrictive abortion laws to be reformed by end of 2020 Spotlight on UK Government to reform Northern Ireland abortion law as UK slips “further and further behind on women’s rights” –...

UAE: health fears for hunger-striking human rights activist Ahmed Mansoor

Award-winning human rights defender is more than three weeks into protest at his unjust ten-year jail sentence ‘Ahmed Mansoor should never have been tried and imprisoned in the first place’ - Lynn...

West Bank: Airbnb's decision on listings in illegal Israeli settlements is 'deeply shameful'

Travel company announced last year it would remove listings ‘at the core of the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians’ Move ‘exposes the hollowness of their claims to be a company that values...

Global executions fell by nearly a third last year - new report

Figures down from 993 to 690 - lowest in at least a decade China remains world’s top executioner - followed by Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam and Iraq But several countries saw a rise in executions -...

Sudan: protesters starved and nine killed in government's lethal offensive

Nine people have been reportedly killed in Sudan since protesters began a sit-in at the military’s headquarters in Khartoum on Saturday (6 April), with police and security forces using excessive force...

UK intervention on global abortion rights 'welcome' but urgent need for Northern Ireland law reform remains

Responding to a speech by International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt at an event hosted by the Canadian High Commission yesterday, Grainne Teggart, Amnesty International’s Northern Ireland...

UAE: British woman detained for Facebook post should have all charges dropped

Responding to the case of Laleh Shahravesh, a British woman who has reportedly been detained in Dubai on defamation charges in relation to a Facebook post in her name which called her ex-husband’s new...

Hong Kong: guilty verdict against 'Umbrella' protest leaders a "crushing blow"

Responding to the guilty verdicts for "public nuisance" against nine leaders of the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests in Hong Kong, Man-kei Tam, Director of Amnesty International Hong Kong...