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Manus Island: Digital verification proves bullets were fired into refugee centre - new report

Bullets were fired directly into the Manus Island refugee centre on 14 April, putting the lives of refugees and asylum-seekers there in danger, new digital verification of images and videos has...

Turkey: Detention of Cumhuriyet editor another dark day for country's media

Responding to the ongoing detention of Oğuz Güven, the web editor of the prominent Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet, after he was taken into police custody this morning, Andrew Gardner, Amnesty...

USA: Return to bigoted anti-Muslim travel ban would cause immeasurable harm

The Trump administration’s executive order on travel would harm both immigrants and US citizens if allowed to enter into effect, warns Amnesty International in a briefing paper released today. The...

Russia: Knee-jerk repression as LGBTI activists arrested over Chechnya petition

In response to today’s detention of five LGBTI activists as they were trying to deliver a petition to the Office of Russia's Prosecutor General on Chechnya, Denis Krivosheev, Deputy Director for...

Russia: YouTuber convicted of blasphemy for playing Pokémon Go in a church

Russian authorities have made another blatant assault on freedom of expression in a show trial against blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, Amnesty International said today. A court in Yekaterinburg today gave...

Venezuela: Use of military courts against civilians undermines rule of law

The use of military courts to try civilians in Venezuela undermines the rule of law in the country, violating the Venezuelan constitution and international laws, said Amnesty International today...

China: Human rights lawyer released on bail as relentless crackdown continues

The release of human rights lawyer Xie Yang on bail does not represent a break in China’s relentless crackdown against lawyers and activists, Amnesty International said today. Xie Yang was tried in...

Danish and German children scarred by invasive surgery to "normalise" their sex

Children born with sex characteristics that do not fit with female or male norms risk being subjected to a range of unnecessary, invasive and traumatising medical procedures in violation of their...

Uganda: Feminist activist Stella Nyanzi free but ludicrous charges must be dropped

Responding to news that outspoken feminist academic Stella Nyanzi has been released on bail after four weeks in prison, Sarah Jackson, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa...

El Salvador: Critical opportunity to put an end to total ban on abortion

The Legislative Assembly of El Salvador has a historic opportunity to reject the criminalisation of abortion and protect the health and lives of millions of women in the country, said Amnesty...