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Sudan: Torture of British journalist highlights need to investigate Darfur chemical attacks

The torture of a British journalist and his Darfuri producer abducted en route to Jebel Marra, in Sudan’s Darfur region, is not only a grave affront to press freedom, but also proof the Sudanese...

Spanish multinational with major business links in UK makes millions from Australia's torture of refugees

A multinational company responsible for running the Australian government’s refugee “processing” centre on Nauru, with major business links in the UK, is making millions of dollars from a system that...

Theresa May must raise 'reckless airstrikes' in Yemen during visit to Saudi Arabia

Responding to news that UK Prime Minister Theresa May will visit Saudi Arabia in the coming days, Allan Hogarth, head of policy and government affairs for Amnesty International UK, said: “Of course we...

Bahrain: Disastrous move towards patently unfair military trials of civilians

The King of Bahrain ratified a constitutional amendment today that paves the way for military trials of civilians, in yet another example of Bahrain’s efforts to dismantle access to justice and fair...

Sri Lanka: Victims of disappearance cannot wait any longer for justice - new report

Sri Lanka will not break with its violent past until it deals with the cruel history of enforced disappearance and delivers justice to as many as 100,000 families who have spent years waiting for it...

New call for release of British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe ahead of anniversary of arrest in Iran

Appeal comes during Iranian New Year season, a traditional time for prisoner releases Ahead of the one-year point (Monday 3 April) since the 38-year-old British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari...

Uzbek secret services monitoring phone calls, emails and texts of Uzbek refugees in Europe - new report

‘The Uzbek authorities have designed a system where surveillance and the expectation of surveillance is not the exception, but the norm’ - Joshua Franco The Uzbekistani government is conducting...

Greece: Strawberry pickers trafficked into forced labour and shot win court case

Following today’s victory in the European Court of Human Rights by a group of Bangladeshi strawberry pickers shot by employers for demanding unpaid wages, Amnesty International's Deputy Europe...

Turkey: US Secretary of State must call for release of more than 120 journalists

As US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Turkey to meet with President Erdoğan and others in Ankara today, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Europe and Central Asia, Gauri van Gulik...

USA's sale of F-16s to Bahrain 'sends dangerous signal' on human rights

After reports that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is set to lift human rights conditions on the multi-billion-dollar sale of F-16 fighter jets to Bahrain despite Bahrain’s record of oppression...