Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali, arbitrarily detained in Iran for over eight years, is at grave risk of execution after exhausting all legal avenues to overturn his death sentence. From 26 June to 4 July 2024, he was on hunger strike in protest at his continued arbitrary detention...

This is Amnesty International’s Oral Statement on the consideration of Malaysia’s UPR report at the UN Human Rights Council’s 56th Session from 18 June – 12 July.

This is Amnesty International’s Oral Statement on the consideration of Jordan’s UPR report at the UN Human Rights Council’s 56th Session from 18 June – 12 July 2024.

During the first year since the death penalty became fully discretionary in Malaysia, Amnesty International recorded a significant decrease in the number of death sentences imposed and upheld by the courts. However, Malaysia’s use of the death penalty and its alternative punishments continue to...

This is Amnesty International’s Oral Statement on the consideration of Saudi Arabia’s UPR report at the UN Human Rights Council’s 56th Session from 18 June – 12 July 2024.

Keith Gavin is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on 18 July 2024. He was convicted in 1999 of a murder committed in 1998 and sentenced to death on a jury vote of 10-2 for the death penalty. In 2020, a federal judge found that his legal representation at the sentencing phase had been...

Forty-one-year-old Ramiro Gonzales was executed in Texas on 26 June 2024. He was sentenced to death in 2006 for a murder committed in 2001 when he was 18 and emerging from a childhood of abuse and neglect. The courts refused to stop the execution despite inaccurate and effectively recanted trial...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s President Felix Tshisekedi must use his second and final term in office to address the human rights crisis engulfing the country, Amnesty International said following the inauguration of the country’s new government on 11 June. The new government is led by...

During his first tenure as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Félix Tshisekedi, made numerous human rights pledges but there has been little to no progress in their implementation. As the country faces worsening armed conflict and humanitarian crisis, socioeconomic injustices, and...

Amnesty International welcomes the report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan and reiterates the need for a concerted approach by the international community to urgently address the Taliban’s “institutionalized system of discrimination, segregation,...

The shocking release of former Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri, sentenced to life imprisonment by a Swedish court in relation to his role in the 1988 prison massacres, following a prisoner exchange deal between Iran and Sweden, is a stunning blow to survivors and relatives of victims and...

On 28 May 2024 the Legislative Assembly of Tonga considered a proposal to extend the death penalty to drug-related offences. While the debate participants rejected this proposal by a strong margin, the consideration of the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences is cause for great...