Amnesty International Australia
Defending Human Rights
The number of police killings of suspected drug dealers has skyrocketed in Indonesia this year, an alarming rise which signals that authorities could be looking to emulate the murderous “war on drugs” in neighbouring Philippines, Amnesty International said. At least 60 suspected drug dealers have been killed by police – some of whom have been …
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Information gathered by Amnesty International suggests that Egyptian security forces forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially executed a schoolteacher who went missing after his arrest on 9 April, in the latest evidence of a chilling pattern of unlawful killings in the country. Testimony from eyewitnesses, colleagues and family members, as well as documentary evidence, indicates that Mohamed …