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All over the world people just like you are being tortured right now. Imagine being beaten, electrocuted, having your face cut, having your fingernails pulled out.

We are in the grip of a global crisis and we need your help to stop torture and make two-faced governments own up to their responsibilities.

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Ending Europe’s trade in torture equipment

Due to legal loopholes, companies are able to advertise and trade torture devices like spiked batons, thumb screws and lethal injection drugs to known human rights abusers outside the EU.

This law needs to be tightened – we must not be complicit in equipping torturers.
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Shaker Aamer: 13 years in Guantánamo Bay, never charged with any crime

Shaker Aamer has finally been released after being detained in Guantánamo Bay detention centre without charge or trial for the last 13 years.

Shaker Aamer was one of the first detainees to be sent to the notorious Guantánamo Bay detention centre in 2002.
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What was the UK's role in CIA torture?

The damning US report on CIA torture reveals how they used waterboarding, ‘rectal feeding’, mock executions, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other cruel and degrading treatment against detainees. But we still don’t know how deeply the UK was involved.

Israel/OPT: surge in arbitrary detention of West Bank Palestinians, with torture rife

The Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of the arbitrary administrative detention of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, said Amnesty International today. They’ve also extended emergency measures that facilitate inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners, and failed to investigate incidents of torture and death in custody during the past four weeks.

Iran: sham capital trials being held against at least 21 people - new research

At least 21 are at risk of the death penalty in Iran. The Iranian authorities must immediately quash all death sentences, refrain from seeking the imposition of the death penalty and drop all charges against those arrested in connection with their peaceful participation in protests.

Afghanistan: New investigation reveals ‘cruel pattern’ of Taliban torturing and executing Hazaras

Six people including a 12-year-old girl killed in night raid on family home

Myanmar: ‘Vile and brutal’ tactics used by military to crush opposition - new report

Detainees allege they were psychologically tortured with death and rape threats
Open letter

Open letter on Justice for Ukraine

On World Day for International Justice Day we demand impartial justice for human rights violations everywhere. Securing impartial justice is vital for humanity to win, and this is our message to the Foreign Secretary.
Egypt

Egypt: fresh appeal for UK to intervene as Alaa Abdel Fattah reaches 1,000 days in jail

Amnesty International has renewed its call on the UK government to press for the release of the arbitrarily-jailed UK national Alaa Abdel Fattah, who will have been behind bars in Egypt for 1,000 days tomorrow (25 June).
China

China: prominent legal scholar and human rights lawyer face 'rigged' trials

Two Chinese human rights activists are facing face grossly unfair trials behind closed doors after being targeted and tortured due to their peaceful work.

UK: Government plotted propaganda campaign against Amnesty International over torture findings, Declassified files reveal

Files from 1970s show that the Foreign Office plotted a secret propaganda campaign to discredit Amnesty report’s author Thomas Hammerberg

Turkey: Move to transfer Khashoggi murder trial to Saudi Arabia is 'dark day' for justice

Justice cannot be delivered by a Saudi court
Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia: blogger Raif Badawi still held in jail after serving his ten-year sentence

Amnesty's response to news that the Saudi Arabian blogger Raif Badawi remains in detention despite having completed an unjust ten-year prison sentence earlier this week.
Yemen

UK: call on Government to help British man held by Yemeni Houthis for nearly five years

Amnesty International is calling on the UK government to do more to secure the release of a British man who has been detained without charge in Yemen for almost five years.
Syria

Germany/Syria: life sentence for former intelligence officer is 'historic victory'

Response to a decision by the Higher Regional Court in Koblenz, Germany this morning, which has seen the conviction of former Syrian intelligence officer Anwar Raslan and his sentencing to life in prison for crimes against humanity - including torture, murder and rape of detainees in Branch 251, an infamous military intelligence facility in Damascus.
Russia

Russia: Siberian shaman who marched against Putin confined indefinitely in psychiatric hospital

Response to a court decision which came into force today to confine Siberian shaman Aleksandr Gabyshev in a psychiatric hospital for an indefinite period for vowing “to purge” Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin.
Iran

UK: giant snakes-and-ladders board to show ups and downs in Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe case

Richard Ratcliffe will unveil a giant snakes-and-ladders board in Parliament Square in central London on Thursday 23 September (11am) to mark the 2,000th day that his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been arbitrarily detained in Iran.

Syria: refugees face detention, torture and death on return – new report

Amnesty International documents appalling human rights violations committed by Syrian intelligence officers

Ukraine: Vitaly Shishov's death must be thoroughly investigated

The circumstances around Vitaly’s death suggest it is linked to the Belarusian authorities.
Morocco

Morocco: Uyghur man at imminent risk of deportation to China

Amnesty International is extremely concerned for the safety of an ethnic Uyghur man who faces possible deportation from Morocco to China where he would be at risk of torture.
USA

Guantánamo: first detainee transfer under Biden welcomed, but camp must close

Response to the US authorities’ transfer of the first detainee out of Guantánamo Bay under the administration of President Joe Biden.