Nearly one year after emergency decree, more than 380 protesters including 13 children face criminal charges while alleged protest leaders remain in detention 61 people face charges for defamatory comments about the monarchy More large-scale protests expected today As protests in Thailand begin to intensify again, authorities must urgently de-escalate their current heavy-handed approach and stop trampling …
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Myanmar: Signs of ‘shoot to kill’ strategy to quell opposition
Responding to reports of killings by Myanmar armed forces on 3 March 2021, the deadliest day since the 1 February coup, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Research, Emerlynne Gil, said: “Everything points to troops adopting shoot to kill tactics to suppress the protests, and with silence from the military administration, there is a growing consensus that …
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Myanmar: Police deployed machine guns against peaceful protesters, despite denials
A young woman was shot in the head by Myanmar’s security forces during protests, Amnesty International has confirmed after investigating footage showing the attack. This evidence also contradicts Myanmar military claims that security forces were not carrying lethal weapons. A video shared on social media of the shooting, which happened in the capital of Nay Pyi Taw …
Right to protest can be balanced with COVID-safe practices
Amnesty International Australia today said police should work with protest organisers to balance the right to protest with COVID-safe practices. “It’s rank hypocrisy from governments to condemn people for protesting in a COVID-safe manner, while being perfectly content with people hitting the beach, the cricket or the shopping centre in numbers,” Amnesty International Australia campaigner …
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Explained: Reproductive rights under threat in Poland
Peaceful protesters against the new restrictions on abortion in Poland have faced excessive use of force by police officers, and have been arbitrarily detained without access to lawyers. Protests began on October 22nd after Poland’s constitutional tribunal ruled abortions due to foetal defects as unconstitutional. What are the abortion laws in Poland? Poland has one …
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Human rights warning issued to Australians travelling to the US
Amnesty International Australia has issued a human rights alert to those intending to travel to the United States of America as the nation faces unrest in the lead up to the November 3 election. Last month Amnesty International released a report, Losing the Peace: US Police Failures to Protect Protesters from Violence which found law …
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Iran: Detainees flogged, sexually abused and given electric shocks in gruesome post-protest crackdown – new report
Iran’s police, intelligence and security forces, and prison officials have committed, with the complicity of judges and prosecutors, a catalogue of shocking human rights violations, including arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment, against those detained in connection with the nationwide protests of November 2019, said Amnesty International in a damning new report published …
Lebanon: Military and security forces attack unarmed protesters following explosions – new testimony
The Lebanese army and security forces, as well as unidentified men in civilian clothes, shot at unarmed crowds during protests in Beirut that took place in the days following the recent explosions, an Amnesty International investigation has found. The organisation monitored the largely peaceful protests on 8 August where tear gas, rubber bullets and pump …
Hong Kong’s national security law: 10 things you need to know
The Hong Kong National Security law is dangerously vague and broad, and was forced through without any accountability or transparency.
Amnesty International Australia seeking videos and testimony of pepper spray incident at Sydney rally
Responding to the use of pepper spray by NSW Police on activists at the peaceful protests on Saturday in Sydney, Amnesty International Campaigner Tim O’Connor said: “Amnesty International Australia deployed 12 Human Rights Observers in Sydney for Saturday’s peaceful #BlackLivesMatter rally. Our Human Rights Observers have collected footage from the peaceful protest, and further material …