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UK: Anoosheh Ashoori running London Marathon to help free Britons jailed in Iran

Morad Tahbaz and Mehran Raoof among cases being highlighted Activists also taking part in a ‘London to Tehran Challenge’ ‘Everyone at Amnesty will be cheering Anoosheh and Aryan on’ - Sacha Deshmukh...

Myanmar: Facebook’s business model profits from ‘echo chamber of hatred’ which fuelled Rohingya atrocities– new report

Facebook’s algorithms ‘set to spread hate and violence’ Inflammatory content keeps Facebook users on the platform longer, meaning more targeted advertising can be sold and creating perverse incentive...

Russia/Ukraine: referenda have 'no legitimacy' and annexation moves would be illegal

Hastily-arranged votes in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia largely conducted in presence of armed men in uniform Any Russian measures over changing status of occupied Ukrainian territory are...

Northern Ireland: Amnesty International urges answers in Martin O’Hagan investigation, 21 years after murder of journalist

Call for publication of Police Ombudsman investigation, 21 years after brutal murder ‘The authorities’ failure to bring Martin O’Hagan’s killers to justice has fed into a climate of fear for...

Russia: activist reportedly beaten and raped for reciting anti-war poem

Poet Artyom Kamardin subjected to torture - including gruesome sexual violence - by law-enforcement officers Girlfriend also assaulted by police and threatened with gang rape ‘It seems that Russian...

Iran: Death toll rising in 'alarming' crackdown on protests

Death toll reaching at least 30 people, four of them children Risk of further bloodshed amid a deliberately imposed internet black out ‘The anger expressed on the streets shows how Iranians feel about...

Russian-occupied Ukraine: 'referenda' are blatant breach of international law

Authorities in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia making home visits to collect ‘ballots’ from residents Any subsequent annexation would have no validity in law ‘These so-called “referenda”...

Russia: peaceful anti-draft protesters must be released

At least 1,386 arrested for taking part in protest rallies following Putin’s call to mobilise additional troops for Ukraine Police used excessive force, including baton beatings and chokeholds ‘All...

USA: ill-treatment of Haitian asylum-seekers is race-based torture - new report

Testimony includes accounts of lack of healthcare in detention, denial of Covid masks, and being bundled onto expulsion flights in shackles Trump-era Title 42 policy being widely used to justify...

Cambodia: Court rejects genocide appeal of former Khmer Rouge leader

Judge upholds conviction of Khieu Samphan, 91, head of state for the murderous regime Today’s ruling marks the final decision by the Cambodian court Two million people died during Khieu Samphan’s rule...