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Iran: authorities still cracking down two years on from nationwide women's protests

Mahsa Amini’s death in custody on 16 September 2022 sparked the nationwide Woman Life Freedom protests followed by a brutal crackdown by the authorities A ‘war on women’ has escalated with intensified...

Saudi Arabia: 40 NGOs call on Saudi authorities to release imprisoned online critics ahead of Internet Governance Forum

Saudi to host the Internet Governance Forum in 100 days Hosting forum reveals Government’s deep hypocrisy given its history of arbitrarily detaining people for expressing their views online Saudi...

Hong Kong: LGBTQ+ couples still denied equality one year on from landmark ruling

Same-sex relationships still not recognised in law Government needs to show progress taken since court ruling ‘Equality is being denied on a daily basis’ - Sarah Brooks One year after a landmark...

UK: New book empowers children and helps them know their rights

74% of parents in Great Britain think it should be compulsory for schools to teach children about their human rights - new figures released today reveal 81% of parents want schools to teach their...

Gaza: Israel must be investigated for war crime of 'wanton destruction' - new investigation

Detailed analysis of satellite imagery and social media videos reveals extent of Israeli military’s destruction of property in its ‘buffer zone’ More than 3,500 structures destroyed or severely...

Scotland: Failure to deliver Scottish Human Rights Bill is ‘unjustifiable’, say Amnesty International

Amnesty International has today described the Scottish Government’s failure to deliver the long-awaited Human Rights Bill in its Programme for Government as “unjustifiable” and said that it represents...

China: Citizen journalist jailed for Covid reporting detained again

Activist Zhang Zhan re-detained less than four months after being freed following four years in jail The citizen journalist was given sham trial and jailed for reporting on the early days of the Covid...

UK: Safe asylum routes 'desperately needed' to avoid tragic Channel crossing deaths

In response to reports that at least 12 people died earlier today trying to cross the Channel, Steve Valdez-Symonds, Amnesty International UK’s Refugee and Migrant Rights Director, said: “Our thoughts...

Mongolia: Putin must be arrested and surrendered to the International Criminal Court

Commenting on Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia, Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia, said: “Mongolia’s international legal obligations are clear as a member state...

UK: suspension of 30 arms export licences for Israel is 'too limited'

Responding to an announcement from the Foreign Secretary David Lammy this afternoon that the UK was suspending around 30 out of some 350 arms export licences for military equipment for Israel, Sacha...