Responding to reports of continued harassment, intimidation and threats against Phafane Nkotsi, journalist and proprietor of Lesotho Tribune and Lesotho Times, Tigere Chagutah, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Amnesty International is appalled by the...

Security forces in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) arrested journalist Qahraman Shukri on 27 January 2021. On 23 June 2021, the Duhok Criminal Court sentenced him to seven years in prison following a grossly unfair, secret trial. Before his arrest, Qahraman Shukri’s journalism work was critical...

This submission was prepared for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Equatorial Guinea at the 47th session of the Working Group. It evaluates the implementation of recommendations made to Equatorial Guinea in its previous UPR. The submission ends with a set of recommendations to Equatorial...

What are the Apple threat notifications?  On 10 April 2024, Apple sent threat notifications to users of iPhones in 92 countries. According to Tech Crunch, the warning text read:  “Apple detected that you are being targeted by a mercenary spyware attack that is trying to remotely compromise the...

The armed conflict between Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) is one of the longest running in modern history. It’s also open to various interpretations, stories and misinformation. Learning more about the roots causes of violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and...

The Hong Kong government has passed new national security legislation – known as Article 23 – that will severely undermine human rights in the city. Here are 10 key facts about the law: This law is a quarter-century in the making When Hong Kong was handed over to China by the United Kingdom in...

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, call for the immediate and unconditional release of Kashmiri journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj. While on a professional assignment on 20 March 2023, Mehraj was summoned for questioning and arbitrarily detained by India’s National...

Responding to the passing of Hong Kong’s Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (Article 23), Amnesty International’s China director Sarah Brooks said: “With this draconian legislation, the Hong Kong government has delivered another crushing blow to human rights in the city. The authorities have...

During ten years of occupation, Russia has attempted to reshape the demography of Crimea. It has also suppressed Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar identities through restrictions on education, religion, media, representative institutions, judicial system, and cultural celebrations. Russia must end...

Amnesty International writes a joint letter with other human rights organizations to call on member states of United Nations Human Right Council to support the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran and...

On 13 November 2023, Belay Manaye, co- founder and presenter of Ethio News, a YouTube based news channel, was arrested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, by a group of uniformed police officers and other security personnel dressed in civilian clothing. To date, he has not been questioned or...

In September 2023, the city of Derna in eastern Libya witnessed unprecedented and catastrophic flooding after Storm Daniel – an extreme weather event made more likely and intense by global warming – triggered the collapse of two ageing dams upstream from Derna. The torrents of water killed at least...