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A new report published today reveals how members of the indigenous Tharu community in Nepal’s Tarai plains were subjected to arbitrary arrests, torture and other ill-treatment at the hands of the police in connection with the killings of eight security personnel and a child in Tikapur, Kailali district, on 24 August 2015. The report follows …
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Authorities must investigate the gruesome attack on Saturday on a woman with albinism and bring those suspected of the crime to justice, following the latest in a series of such attacks. According to media reports, unidentified men targeted 51-year-old woman in Chitipa District in the northern region, chopping off her right hand with a machete …
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Iran’s authorities are callously toying with the lives of prisoners of conscience and other political prisoners by denying them adequate medical care, putting them at grave risk of death, permanent disability or other irreversible damage to their health. The report, Health taken hostage: Cruel denial of medical care in Iran’s prisons, provides a grim snapshot …
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Amnesty International Australia’s annual Media Awards for 2016 have now been launched, recognising excellence in reporting on human rights issues in the Australian media. Journalists, photographers, cartoonists and their editors and producers are invited to enter stories broadcast or published between 1 August 2015 and 1 August 2016. Previous winners of the awards, now in …
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Upholding human rights and the rule of law is the job of elected governments. The coup plotters in Turkey forgot this; it is crucial that President Erdogan and the authorities do not. Investigations and accountability should now begin, but this is no time for further rights regression in Turkey. Fair trials must be ensured and …
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We condemn the recent executions of three men in Bangladesh and urge authorities to immediately impose a moratorium on executions with a view to the abolition of the death penalty. Mercy petitions rejected Two men – Mohammed Shahidul and Saiful Islam – were hanged just after midnight on Wednesday 13 July in Chittagong Central Jail. They …
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Amnesty International utterly condemns the despicable attack in Nice, which has left over 80 dead and many more injured. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, which President Hollande has described as being of a “terrorist nature”. Amnesty International’s Europe Director, John Dalhuisen said: “We are all deeply shocked by the appalling attack in …
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South Sudanese security forces are deliberately blocking people from leaving the country in violation of their right to freedom of movement. The organisation has received reports from two charter companies that National Security Service officers have ordered them not to carry South Sudanese nationals, particularly men. It has also been told by an NGO that …
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More than 1,000 people, many arrested arbitrarily, are being held in horrific conditions and dozens are dying from disease and malnutrition or have been tortured to death, as part of the Cameroonian government and security forces crackdown on Boko Haram. Up to eight people dying each month as a result of desperately overcrowded conditions in …
A package of new proposals published by the European Union today risks rolling back basic protections for refugees and asylum seekers. A proposed EU-wide resettlement framework would use resettlement as a tool for migration control rather than to provide assistance to vulnerable refugees. In addition, three proposed reforms of the EU asylum system would introduce …
