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World's largest letter-writing campaign launches to support young people facing human rights abuses

Millions of letters will help end abuses against 12 young people People receiving support include volunteers arrested for rescuing refugees in Greece and a young Iranian woman rights activist...

Haiti: Tear gas, water cannons and live ammunition used against protesters

At least 35 people killed during six weeks of anti-government protests Amnesty verifies evidence of police using excessive force indiscriminately Authorities in Haiti must end the unlawful and...

Turkey: hundreds arrested in crackdown on critics of military offensive - new report

In the first week of offensive alone, 839 social media accounts were under investigation for ‘sharing criminal content’ Journalists and opposition figures targeted, with several given travel bans...

Sri Lanka: Six months on, still no accountability for attacks on refugees - new report

There has still been no police investigations into the threats and violence faced by refugees and asylum-seekers in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks, Amnesty International and...

Iraq: deadly new 'smoker' tear gas grenades used against protesters

String of gruesome fatalities caused by recent use of heavyweight military-style weapons, with entire grenades lodged in victims’ smoking skulls Serbian and Bulgarian-made weapons up to ten times...

Myanmar: Satirical poets imprisoned for mocking military in 'appalling' conviction

Responding to the conviction and one-year prison sentence handed down today to five members of the Peacock Generation, a satirical poetry troupe, Joanne Mariner, Amnesty International’s research...

Israel: Scores of activists targeted with NSO spyware

Malicious Israeli-made spyware used to ‘intimidate, track, and punish’ 100 human rights activists Amnesty supports legal case to force Israeli MoD to revoke NSO’s export license Responding to a...

Iraq: 'Horrific scenes' as security forces kill protesters in Karbala

Iraqi security forces resorted yet again to excessive and unlawful lethal force to disperse crowds of largely peaceful protesters in the southern city of Karbala last night, Amnesty International said...

Tanzania: climate of fear as 'ruthless' repression mounts

Bans on political activities and newspapers Opposition party members shot Erick Kabendera amongst journalists caught up in wave of arbitrary arrests The ‘government must repeal all oppressive laws...

Turkey: Hundreds of Syrian refugees 'tricked or forced' into returning to Syria - new report

Turkish authorities have taken handcuffed refugees in buses back to Syria ahead of creating so-called ‘safe zones’ Refugees beaten into signing ‘voluntary return’ documents, with others told they were...