Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump must use their upcoming summit in Helsinki to tackle the world’s most urgent human rights issues and restore their nations’ credibility as responsible international players, Amnesty International said ahead of the meeting between the Russian and US presidents in Finland’s capital on Monday. The organisation calls on the two leaders …
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In the first six months of 2018, 100 hate crimes have allegedly been committed against people from marginalised groups, said Amnesty International India, as it released data recorded on its interactive website, ‘Halt the Hate’. The term ‘hate crime’ is applied to criminal acts against people based on their real or perceived membership of a …
QLD Government cannot ignore the overrepresentation of Indigenous kids in prison and must immediately raise the age to 14
Amnesty International welcomes the recommendation put forward from a review of Queensland’s youth justice system that the focus must be on prevention and diversion programs, but calls on the QLD government to recognise and address the overrepresentation of Indigenous kids in the system and raise the age of criminal responsibility to 14. The review was …
Yemen: Disappearances and torture in detention facilities must be investigated as war crimes
Justice remains elusive a year after a network of secret prisons was first exposed in southern Yemen, Amnesty International said in a new report documenting egregious unchecked violations, including systemic disappearances and torture as well as other ill-treatment amounting to war crimes. “God only knows if he’s alive” details how scores of men have been …
Myanmar: Charging of Reuters journalists a black day for press freedom
Responding to today’s decision by a Yangon court to formally charge Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, with breaching the country’s Official Secrets Act, Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Response, said: “This is a black day for press freedom in Myanmar. The court’s decision to proceed with this farcical, politically motivated …
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Turkey: Conviction of six Zaman journalists “sends further shock through an already devastated media landscape”
Following the sentencing of six former columnists and editors of the shuttered Zaman newspaper to jail terms of between eight-and-a-half and ten-and-a-half years, and the acquittal of five others, Fotis Filippou, Amnesty International’s Campaign Director for Europe said: “Yet again, journalists have received criminal convictions under anti-terror laws with nothing more than their critical writings …
Former youth prisoner at the UN calls out Turnbull Government for failing Indigenous children
Indigenous advocate, Keenan Mundine, a former youth prisoner and principal consultant of Inside Out Aboriginal Justice Consultancy, has travelled to Geneva to address the UN Human Rights Council about the Turnbull Government’s failure to stop ten year old children being sent to prison. “I have spent more than half of my life behind bars, and …
Nauru: Government must lift press restrictions on ABC ahead of Pacific Islands summit
Responding to the news that Nauru’s government has banned journalists from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from attending the Pacific Islands Forum in September, Minar Pimple Amnesty International’s Senior Director of Global Operations said: “This brazen move is a clear attempt at suppressing critical coverage of Nauru’s government and its inhumane treatment of refugees. “The …
Indonesia: Police and military unlawfully kill almost 100 people in Papua in eight years with near total impunity
Indonesian security forces have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in little more than eight years in the restive eastern provinces of Papua and West Papua, with the overwhelming majority of perpetrators never being held to account for these crimes, Amnesty International reveals in a new report today. All but 10 of the victims were …
Egypt: Verdicts expected for 739 defendants in grotesque mass death penalty trial
739 defendants face death penalty, including photojournalist popularly known as ‘Shawkan’ Grossly unfair trial marred by torture of defendants The mass trial of 739 people, many facing the death penalty on charges related to participation in the al-Rabaa sit-in on 14 August 2013, is a grotesque parody of justice, Amnesty International said ahead of the …
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