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Analysis of more than a dozen Israeli evacuation warnings show how Lebanese civilians were given contradictory information and exposed to heightened danger Some warnings issued in middle of night on...
Arrests take place as regional leaders meet in Laos to discuss the Myanmar crisis ‘Interrogation centres - where these two activists have likely been sent - are notorious locations of abuse where...
Executions more than tripled in 2023, while death sentences increased by 66% in the region Fresh call for abolition on World Day Against Death Penalty, with Kenya, Zimbabwe and Gambia leading the way...
Monday 7 October 2024 marks a year since the horrific attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel, in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 abducted. It also...
Critics of the Government have been locked up in an intensified crackdown Amnesty is concerned that any critics seeking to voice their dissent in the run-up to or during COP29 face the risk of severe...
Judgment expected before end of year from court investigating claims Northern Ireland journalists were secretly monitored by UK authorities Police Service of Northern Ireland and Metropolitan Police...
Responding to the news that the Singapore authorities executed a man for a drug-related offence today (4 October), Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research, Kate Schuetze, said:...
Responding to the latest Government statistics on homelessness, Jen Clark, Economic and Social Rights Lead at Amnesty International UK, said: “The latest statistics show that 178,560 households...
Reacting to the fatal stabbing of Azerbaijani human rights defender Vidadi Isgandarli in France, where he had been living in exile, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s Researcher for South...
Amnesty International has designated three prominent human rights defenders from Hong Kong and mainland China prisoners of conscience today as the organisation called for their immediate and...