1+ hour, 42+ min ago  (356+ words) Responding to the caning of an unmarried couple in the Indonesian province of Aceh for kissing and livestreaming it on social media, Amnesty International's Co-Regional Director Montse Ferrer said: "Today's public caning of a young man and woman simply for…...

2+ hour, 41+ min ago  (276+ words) Refugees and asylum seekers in Tunisia are being deliberately trapped in a system that offers neither protection nor a safe way out, Sara Hashash, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africasaid." Valentin, aregistered refugee from Cameroonwho was…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (369+ words) Responding to China's new Ethnic Unity Law coming into force on 1 July, Amnesty International's Deputy Regional Director Sarah Brooks said: "Chinese authorities have human rights obligations requiring them to protect minority communities and their cultures, but this law does the…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (174+ words) Protest is a right! Imprisoned for peaceful protest. Luis Pacheco and H'ctor Chacl'n, ancestral authorities of the 48 Cantons of Totonicap'n in 2023, were arrested on 23 April 2025 for participating in peaceful protests. They have been accused of terrorism, unlawful association and obstruction…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago  (313+ words) Following the forced closure of at least six media outlets in Uganda on 28 June 2026 and the arbitrary arrest and detention of scores of human rights activists on the orders of Uganda's military chief and President Yoweri Museveni's son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba,…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (429+ words) Visitors to Saudi Arabia, including those travelling for tourism and religious pilgrimages such as Hajj and Umrah, risk being detained, subjected to grossly unfair trials, and sentenced to lengthy prison sentences for their social media activity " including posts published before…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1637+ words) Despite the increasingly fractious state of the world, governments and civil society have come together to pass important laws and resolutions to tackle human rights harms, following protests and petitions from activists and campaigners. The past six months has seen…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago  (311+ words) Reacting to the start on Sunday of a 13-day blanket ban on protests in Ankara, and the imprisonment in pretrial detention of more than 100 people including lawyers, academics and activists ahead of the 36th NATO summit in T'rkiye, Esther Major, Amnesty…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (213+ words) Responding to news that Kazakhstani authorities have detained Batikha Bilashkyzy, whose brother, Serikzhan Bilash, is a human rights defender and the founder of the Atajurt movement, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International's Eastern Europe and Central Asia Director, said: "Batikha Bilashkyzy's detention…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (280+ words) Responding to the news that a Tunisian court has sentenced Sihem Bensedrine to 25 years in prison after being convicted on bogus charges in connection with her work as the President of the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD), Amnesty International's Secretary General,…...