On 12 June, a group of 17 people – among them Turks, Afghans and Iranians – were forcibly removed from the United States and flown to Bangui, in the Central African Republic (CAR), a country where they have no ties and whose language they do not speak. According to Third Country Deportation Watch, all but […]
In response to the court’s decision to grant alternatives to pretrial detention to prisoners of conscience and former ancestral authorities of Totonicapán’s 48 Cantons, Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán, Ana Piquer, Americas Director at Amnesty International, said: “We welcome the fact that Luis Pacheco and Héctor Chaclán will be able to return to their families […]
Filipino domestic workers reveal the abuses they faced in Saudi Arabia A number of Filipino women working in private households in Saudi Arabia are being overworked, exploited and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, including sexual assault, all of which is being enabled by the country’s abusive labour system and a lack of effective protections. […]
Jonas Ndayisenga, co-founder and Executive Director of Umoja Refugee Creative in Kenya, knows all too well what it takes to survive. He first fled Burundi with his mother and young siblings at age three, survived the Rwanda genocide and moved on to Tanzania where he started his primary schooling before moving back to Burundi, only […]
Ahead of the third anniversary of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ongoing detention, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said: “For three years, Pakistan’s authorities have systematically denied Imran Khan the right to a fair trial, subjected him to prolonged solitary confinement, and limited his access to medical care and visitation rights. He has not been allowed to meet his family for more than eight months and his vision has reportedly deteriorated significantly. Both he and his wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, have now been denied regular access to […]
Twenty years after 17 aid workers from the French humanitarian association Action contre la Faim (ACF) were killed in Muttur, eastern Sri Lanka, the authorities must finally deliver truth, justice and reparations, Amnesty International said today. On 4 August 2006, 17 Sri Lankan employees of ACF – 16 Tamils and one Muslim – were found shot dead at close range at the […]
In response to the violent clashes in parts of Tigray – Ethiopia’s northern region – between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on 1 August, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere Chagutah said: “The resumption of violence in Tigray region puts residents at renewed risk of human rights […]
Ahead of tomorrow’s meeting of European countries’ ministries of interior on the European Union’s (EU) response to the situation in Ceuta, Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Europe said: “As they prepare to meet, we call on European leaders to respond humanely and with solidarity to the situation in Ceuta, as well as […]
Reacting to the crossing of tens of thousands of people, including children, from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and the reported deaths of 43 people, Esteban Beltrán, Director of Amnesty International Spain, said: “We are monitoring this situation very closely. Spanish and Moroccan authorities must put their human rights obligations at the centre of […]
In response to the constitutional reform initiative put forward by the Nicaraguan authorities to extend the presidential term and permanently exclude from electoral processes people labelled by the government as “traitors” or “coup plotters”, Amnesty International warns that these measures represent a further step in dismantling the right of Nicaraguans to participate in the public […]
