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Following a concerted campaign by several human rights organisations, Alshaima Omama Alzubi (AOA) a 25-year-old human rights defender and refugee has arrived safely in Australia. Alzubi, who also identifies as non-binary was facing forced repatriation from Lebanon to Jordan on Christmas Eve after being in detention at the Lebanese General Security for five days in …
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To look back on the year that was 2021 and celebrate the extraordinary impact we’ve had as a movement, we asked you to vote on the most memorable moment captured on camera. Here’s what you said:
Responding to the judgement delivered in tennis star Novak Djokovic’s appeal against the Australian Government’s decision to cancel his visa, Amnesty International Australia refugee advisor Dr Graham Thom said: “Djokovic got a brief glimpse of what refugees have been experiencing for years because of the Australian Government’s shameful refugee policies. As Mehdi Ali, a 24-year-old refugee from Iran detained in the same Park Hotel, told Amnesty Australia, ‘the air inside my room is a jail, a misery that has …
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Responding to the arrest of Professor Faizullah Jalal, a Kabul University lecturer detained for exercising his right to freedom of expression while criticizing the Taliban on a news channel, Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s South Asia campaigner, said: “This arrest marks just the latest effort by the Taliban to stifle dissent. Since the takeover, Afghanistan’s leaders …
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A 25 year old LGBTQI+ and women’s rights defender, and refugee from Jordan, AOA, is facing forced repatriation from their current location in Lebanon. The Australian Humanitarian Visa holder, who identifies as a non-binary lesbian, was two days away from flying to Australia when they were arrested in Beirut due to an abuse of the …
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Amhara security forces are responsible for a surge of mass detentions, killings and forced expulsions of ethnic Tigrayans in the Western Tigray territory of northern Ethiopia, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. Tigrayan civilians attempting to escape the new wave of violence have been attacked and killed. Scores in detention face life-threatening conditions …
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Amnesty welcomes the new pilot scheme and the improved Community Sponsorship program.
The next Australian Government must put human rights – both here at home and abroad – at the heart of all policy decisions.
Responding to the High Court’s decision to accept the US’s appeal against the decision not to extradite Julian Assange Amnesty International’s Europe Director Nils Muižnieks said: “This is a travesty of justice. By allowing this appeal, the High Court has chosen to accept the deeply flawed diplomatic assurances given by the US that Assange would not be held in …
Responding to the convictions of three Hong Kong pro-democracy figures – Jimmy Lai, Gwyneth Ho and Chow Hang-tung – over their involvement in the city’s annual Tiananmen vigil on 4 June 2020, Amnesty International’s Deputy Secretary General Kyle Ward said: “The Hong Kong government has once again flouted international law by convicting activists simply for …
