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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...

Daughter of British man jailed in Iran to stage 'Bring My Dad Home' protest

Protest takes place exactly four weeks since release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori ‘We’ve been misinformed, misled and abandoned’ - Roxanne Tahbaz ‘These games hurt too many lives’...

Iran: seriously ill prisoners denied medical care and left to die - new report

Report documents 96 prisoner deaths since 2010, though real figure could be far higher Prisoners - many in their 20s or 30s - have died from untreated injuries sustained during violent arrests or from...

Northern Ireland: Arson attack on Belfast Multi-Cultural Association was second in three weeks  

‘ We know that those responsible are not reflective of the community in Donegall Pass and across this city’ – Muhammad Atif ‘ Repeated attacks, including the apparent use of a petrol bomb, are...

Poland: Racist pushbacks at Belarus border are 'in stark contrast' to welcome for Ukrainian refugees - new evidence

Mass pushbacks and arbitrary detention of Syrians and others has been very different to wide welcome shown to those fleeing Ukraine Human rights violations have included racist abuse, strip searches...