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Switzerland: Violence and racism in asylum centres run by private security companies - new report

New report includes disturbing testimony, with guards themselves shocked at orders they received Some asylum-seekers, including children, put in freezing-cold steel containers - or ‘reflection rooms’...

Spain/Morocco: migrants subjected to violence and used as 'pawns' at Ceuta border

Children beaten by Spanish guards after border gates thrown open Stand-off appears to be Morocco’s ‘retaliation’ for separatist leader’s medical treatment in Spain ‘Spanish abuses are also EU abuses’...

Belarus: Leading news site blocked and journalists interrogated

TUT.by, relied on by more than 40% of Belarusian internet users, taken down and editors interrogated after office and house raids Move follows jailing of TUT.by reporter in March ‘It is a full-scale...

Russia: proposed new laws will criminalise Navalny supporters

Up to 200,000 Navalny supporters could fall foul of new laws Parliamentarians urged to reject bills threatening freedom of association and expression ‘Having unjustly imprisoned its arch foe, the...

Denmark: Nationwide demonstrations planned against deportation of Syrian refugees

Large demo to take place in Copenhagen tomorrow At least 39 Syrians in country have received their final assessment and are now in position to be deported ‘Our research shows that Syrians who have...

Amnesty UK welcomes new Chief Executive Officer

Amnesty International UK is delighted to announce the appointment of Sacha Deshmukh as its new interim Chief Executive Officer. He will lead Amnesty UK until at least January 2022 as the organisation...

USA: Biden's approval of weapons sale to Israel puts civilians at greater risk

$735m arms sale announced despite rapidly rising civilian death toll in Gaza Call on UK to conduct ‘full review’ of its weapons sales to region ‘Congress must oppose this sale’ - Philippe Nassif...

Peru: Evidence confirms indigenous communities in Espinar exposed to toxic metals pollution - new report

Mining project owned by Anglo-Swiss transnational Glencore PLC blamed for health crisis in Espinar Nearly 60% of people found with arsenic in their bodies putting them at risk of cancer ‘We are dying...

Israeli attacks on homes in Gaza must be investigated as war crimes

Bombardments following ‘horrific’ pattern of 2014, when Israeli military had deliberate policy of targeting family homes ‘There was no warning, so people were inside their home sitting together’ -...

Iran: brutal murder of gay man must be fully investigated

Alireza Fazeli Monfared, 20, who identified as non-binary gay man, found with throat cut Iran has ‘permissive climate for homophobic and transphobic hate crimes’ - Diana Eltahawy *New six-page...