More than half of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out by Iran, a new report from Amnesty International revealed on Thursday. Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq are responsible for carrying out 85 percent of all reported death sentences worldwide, the report said. The figures show that the Middle[…]
World leaders are undermining human rights for millions of people with regressive policies and hate-filled rhetoric, but their actions have ignited global protest movements in response, a rights group said. US President Donald Trump, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, and China’s President Xi Jinping were among a number of politicians who[…]
Families are being torn apart by the rift between Qatar and some other Gulf Arab states that began six months ago, Amnesty International said on Thursday, in spite of measures to ease the impact of the crisis on ordinary citizens. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, along with[…]
As Zimbabwe’s political climate remains uncertain, Amnesty International has asked the Zimbabwean military to ensure the safety and security of all people in Zimbabwe, regardless of their political allegiance and to refrain from any actions that disregards respect for human rights. This following the house arrest of President Mugabe by[…]
A Turkish court late Wednesday ordered the release of eight human rights activists who are standing trial, including Amnesty International’s director of Turkey, Idil Eser. The activists will be released on bail. Their next hearing is set for 22 November. A total of 11 activists, including a German and a[…]
An accused spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service has been sentenced to death in Iran after he was found guilty of being involved in a string of assassinations of Iran’s nuclear scientists, according to prosecutors in Tehran. “One of the crimes of the convict has been disclosing the address and[…]
Thousands of women fleeing the four-year-long conflict in South Sudan have been raped and sexually assaulted, according to rights groups and women who have spoken to Al Jazeera. They mainly blame the government troops o but also opposition forces loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar for the abuses. Many[…]
Security forces and vigilante mobs in Myanmar are carrying out a scorched-earth policy in the majority-Muslim region of Rakhine State, burning down entire Rohingya villages and shooting at people as they try to flee, Amnesty International has said. According to new satellite imagery, fire-detection data, photographs and videos from the[…]
The United Nations has called for a pause in the fighting for the ISIL-held Syrian city of Raqqa to let thousands of civilians escape the battle. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by US-led coalition fighter jets, has retaken 60 percent of Raqqa[…]
Amnesty International urged South African authorities to move forward with prosecutions over the killing by police of 34 people in a single day at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum operations five years ago. “The tragedy of the Marikana killings is compounded by the shocking fact that no one responsible for the bloodshed[…]
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