Authorities in South Sudan must comply with the directive by the country’s Minister of Justice by immediately releasing government critic Morris Mabior Awikjok Bak, who has been held in arbitrary detention for more than 400 days, said Amnesty International. After being arbitrarily arrested in Kenya...

Amnesty International filed an amicus curiae brief to the Constitutional Court of Mongolia (Tsets) on the applicable international and regional human rights law and standards on detention, with a particular focus on the right to liberty and security of person.

Reacting to a violent attack by unknown men on a civic activist in Georgia just hours after he was accused in a social media post by the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament of participating in an “organized and politically motivated campaign of terror”, Denis Krivosheev, Amnesty International’s...

A delegation of Amnesty International representatives from France, Germany, the United States and Canada will attend the trials of criminalized land defenders from the Wet’suwet’en Nation in Smithers, British Columbia the week of 17 June. The delegates will be there to watch the criminal court...

Removal of abortion-related content on social media platforms with inadequate or unclear justification can contribute to the increasing challenges in accessing abortion care and threatens the right to health and bodily autonomy, according to a new briefing from Amnesty International. In Obstacles...

In advance of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, several organisations are writing to ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to publicly call on sporting authorities in France to overturn all bans on athletes wearing the hijab in French sport, both at Paris 2024 and at all...

Social media companies can play a vital role in providing reproductive health information, especially where abortion access is restricted. In the United States, however, platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok are removing abortion-related content, disrupting essential information flow. This...

Amnesty International submits this briefing ahead of the review of Ecuador by the UN Committee against Torture (the Committee) in July 2024. This is not an exhaustive set of issues. It sets out the organization’s main concerns with regard to the current crisis within Ecuador’s prisons. This...

This statement is made in respect of Amnesty International Limited, the entity which employs the staff of Amnesty International’s International Secretariat and conducts its global operations, for the financial year 1 January to 31 December 2023. It describes the actions that the International...

On 28 May 2024 the Legislative Assembly of Tonga considered a proposal to extend the death penalty to drug-related offences. While the debate participants rejected this proposal by a strong margin, the consideration of the use of the death penalty for drug-related offences is cause for great...

Responding to the swearing in of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a third term and his stated promise to lead the country by consensus and uphold the values of the Indian constitution, Aakar Patel, Chair of Amnesty International India’s board, said: “Over the past 10 years, the government of...

Regarding the Finnish Government’s proposal for an emergency law on the so-called “instrumentalization” of migration, defined in the text as actions by “states or other actors” to facilitate irregular migration movements into another country in an attempt to destabilize it, Director of Amnesty...