Chinese authorities must end their persecution of the citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, Amnesty International said after the activist was re-detained less than four months after being freed from prison. Zhang Zhan, who is being held at the Pudong New District Detention Center in Shanghai, appears to...

By Tania Briseño Oliveros Virginia Laparra is a Guatemalan lawyer who spent two years in prison through an unfair conviction and with whom Amnesty International has maintained a close relationship, having followed her case for several years. In May of this year, a small Amnesty International...

Responding to the Aprajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws Amendment) Bill adopted today by the West Bengal state government that introduces the death penalty for the offence of rape when it results in the victim’s death or leaves them “in a vegetative state”, Aakar Patel, Chair of Board...

Amnesty International has filed an amicus curiae brief to the Bangkok Civil Court on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on the right to privacy, the right to an effective remedy, and human rights due diligence, in relation to the case Jatupat Boonpattararaksa...

On 13 January 2024, the Internal Security Agency (ISA), a security agency allied with the Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), a powerful armed group in de facto control of eastern and southern Libya, arrested the activist and blogger Maryam Mansour al-Warfalli, known as “Nakhla Fezzan,” at ISA’s Sabha...

Responding to the latest arrests of journalists and activists during the snap parliamentary election campaign in Azerbaijan that ended on Sunday, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International’s South Caucasus Researcher, said: “The alarming new arrests and detentions targeting government critics must not...

Responding to reports that Vladimir Putin plans to visit Mongolia on 3 September, Altantuya Batdorj, Executive Director of Amnesty International Mongolia, said: “If he travels, Mongolia’s international legal obligations are clear as a member state of the International Criminal Court (ICC). They...

Algerian authorities have maintained their repression of civic space by continuing their brutal crackdown on human rights including the rights to freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association in the run up to the country’s presidential elections scheduled to be held on 7 September, said...

“As a family, we support and encourage his struggle. He wants the best for Angola” 16 September marks one year since Gildo das Ruas has been detained. We met with his partner, his father and brother; they described what an entire year, without Gildo has been like. “I didn’t know that Gildo had been...

On 16 September 2023, four activists- Adolfo Campos, Abraão Pedro Santos, Gilson Morreira, and Hermenegildo Victor José – were arrested. On 19 September 2023, they were summarily tried, convicted and sentenced without any evidence to 2 years and 5 months in prison for ‘disobedience and resisting...

Presidential elections will be held in Algeria on 7 September 2024 amidst severe restrictions on civic space and a continued crackdown on human rights including the rights to the freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, and media freedom. In addition to these restrictions, Amnesty...

On 5 August 2024, the Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced opposition figure Abir Moussi to two years in prison under Decree-Law 54 following a complaint filed by the Independent High Authority for Elections (ISIE) after she criticized the legislative elections process. Abir Moussi has been in...