The Jordanian authorities must not deny entry to anyone fleeing the armed conflict in neighbouring Syria, Amnesty International said after families with young children were among scores of people forced to wait at the border in recent days.
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is warning against a crackdown on supporters of Mohamed Morsi, after documenting a new wave of arrests of Muslim Brotherhood leaders, raids on media and an incident in which a protester was killed by army live fire.
Since former President Mohamed (...)
Egyptian police and security forces are failing to protect protesters and bystanders from violence amid the country's political strife, Amnesty International said today, on the brink of the army's threatened intervention to resolve the (...)
The conviction today of 68 government critics in the United Arab Emirates shows the authorities' determination to crush any form dissent, said Amnesty International.
"Not only do the defendants appear to have been targeted simply because of their (...)
Today's court appeal by two members of a prominent Saudi Arabian human rights organization is a bid for justice amid a broader crackdown on activism in the Gulf kingdom, said Amnesty International.
On 9 March the Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced (...)
A Coptic Christian teacher detained in Egypt on charges of “defamation of religion" must be immediately released and the criminal case against her dropped, said Amnesty International today, ahead of her appearance in court on Saturday.
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This month Eritrea ‘celebrates' its 20th year of independence – yet it remains one of the most secretive and repressive countries in the world.
On Thursday 9 May, Amnesty International is releasing a report looking at how President Isaias Afewerki (...)
The conviction of an activist in Algeria after he distributed leaflets about unemployment in the country is a worrying sign that a new law regulating associations is being used to restrict civil society groups' activities, Amnesty International (...)
Today, Freedom Now, Amnesty International, CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation, the Committee to Free Eskinder Nega, the East and Horn of Africa Human Rights Defenders Project, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, English PEN, the (...)
North Korea's Supreme Court in Pyongyang has reportedly sentenced a US national of Korean origin to 15 years of hard labour in the country's infamous prison camps today after finding him guilty of various unspecified crimes against the nation.
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Scores of journalists reporting on human rights abuses in Syria have been killed, arbitrarily arrested, detained, subjected to enforced disappearances and tortured over the last two years, Amnesty International said in a report released on World (...)
Victims and family members are still waiting for the Indonesian authorities to provide them with truth, justice and full reparation almost eight years after the end to the devastating Aceh conflict, Amnesty International said in a new report (...)
Israel's new government must drop a proposed law that would lead to mass forced evictions of Bedouin people and instead pursue legislation to protect Bedouin housing rights, Amnesty International said, as the Ministerial Committee on Legislation is (...)
Authorities in Papua New Guinea must take urgent action to prevent and punish ‘sorcery'-related violence, following reports six women and a man were abducted and subjected to acts of appalling cruelty by a group who accused them of (...)
The forcible dispersal of a demonstration and the assault on protesters in Western Sahara by Moroccan security forces around the visit of Christopher Ross, the UN Personal Envoy to the Secretary General for Western Sahara, highlight the need for (...)
Egypt and Sudan must make urgent and concerted efforts to stop asylum-seekers and refugees being kidnapped from camps in Sudan, forcibly transported to Egypt, and being severely abused in the Sinai desert, Amnesty International said in a new (...)
Today, governments at the United Nations adopted by a wide margin an Arms Trade Treaty that will prohibit states from transferring conventional weapons to countries when they know those weapons will be used to commit or facilitate genocide, crimes (...)
In a deeply cynical move, Iran, North Korea and Syria have thwarted the adoption of an Arms Trade Treaty aimed at prohibiting states from transferring conventional weapons to countries when they know those weapons will be used to commit or (...)
Seven men who hit the headlines last week when it emerged that one of them faced “crucifixion" following execution in Saudi Arabia, look set to be shot on Wednesday morning, prompting Amnesty International to call for a halt to what would be nothing (...)
Tunisia should mark its national day of internet freedom on 13 March by releasing immediately and unconditionally 28-year-old blogger Jabeur Meiri, who has been in prison for more than a year, Amnesty International said.
“It's ironic that on 13 (...)
has condemned death sentences handed down against 21 people in the Port Said football violence trial on 9 March 2013. The trials which led to the death sentences seem to be more about scapegoating a few rather than providing answers about what (...)
Two laws that would severely restrict the work of independent civil society organizations and limit freedom of assembly in Egypt should be significantly amended or dropped, Amnesty International said today as the country's Upper House of parliament (...)
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have denied an Amnesty International delegate entry into the country ahead of a trial of 94 UAE citizens, highlighting serious questions about its transparency and fairness, Amnesty International said.
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In March 2012, Moroccan 16-year-old Amina Filali swallowed rat poison and killed herself, after being forced to marry the man she said had raped her.
Amina's tragic story was not uncommon in Morocco, where Article 475 of the Penal Code has allowed (...)
Libyan newspaper editor Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi has been detained incommunicado since 19 December 2012. He has been charged with defamation, as his newspaper published a list of judges it said were involved in corruption.
Amara Abdalla al-Khatabi, (...)