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● Beatings, gender-based violence and arbitrary arrests documented● Myanmar must immediately free all those unjustly detained● Profound psychological trauma experienced upon release Authorities in Myanmar’s prisons and interrogation centres routinely subject people detained for resisting the 2021 military coup to torture and other cruel or degrading treatment, Amnesty International said today in a new briefing, …
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The lives of women and girls in Afghanistan are being devastated by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights.
A two-day hearing in the Federal Court of Australia in Melbourne has closed today with dramatic revelations that question the legality of many immigration detention facilities in Australia.
The landmines laid by the Myanmar military have killed and seriously injured civilians and will have significant long-term consequences.
A two-day hearing in the Victorian Federal Court begins today to challenge the legality of the APODs.
In the statement, the alliance acknowledged that this must first-step must be the catalyst for a global groundswell of support ahead of the UN General Assembly in September.
Calling for refugees and people seeking asylum on Nauru to be urgently evacuated to Australia while they await resettlement processes.
Amnesty International today published heartbreaking new testimony from relatives of 48 ethnic Uyghur and Kazakh people detained in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as it reiterated its call for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to take action. The outgoing High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, has yet to release a long-awaited report on serious human rights violations …
Russian air strikes on an apartment block and beach resort hotel in the coastal town of Serhiivka in southern Ukraine killed at least 21 civilians, Amnesty International said today following a new on-the-ground investigation. The strikes, apparently using anti-ship missiles, hit the town in the Odesa region shortly before 1am on 1 July, injuring at …
Responding to the Western Australian government’s statement on moving children from Banksia Hill Detention Centre to the maximum security Casuarina Prison, Amnesty International Australia Indigenous Rights Lead, Maggie Munn, said: “Time and time again we have heard just how bad conditions are in Banksia Hill. In fact, District Court Judge Hylton Quail was quoted saying …
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