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Pakistan: Renewed arrests, detention and harassment of Afghan refugees in Pakistan must stop
Responding to reports of arbitrary detention and harassment of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers by law enforcement agencies ...
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Cambodia/Thailand: Alarming killing of politician amid crackdown on Cambodian opposition
Responding to the fatal shooting of Cambodian-French former opposition MP Lim Kimya in Bangkok, Thailand, Amnesty ...
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Angola: Five government critics released after more than a year of arbitrary imprisonment
Responding to the release of five arbitrarily detained government critics in Angola after more than a year behind bars, ...
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Amnesty International Response to the Transfer of 11 Men from the Guantanamo Detention Center to Oman
In response to news reports that the U.S. Government transferred 11 men out of the Guantanamo Bay detention center and to ...
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China: Jailed human rights lawyer’s failed appeal highlights government’s fear of dissent
Responding to the rejection of Chinese human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng’s appeal against his three-year prison sentence for ...
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Australians’ right to peacefully protest the actions of Israeli government must be protected
Amnesty International Australia strongly opposes the call by Australia’s antisemitism envoy to ban pro-Palestinian protests from city centres. Protests advocating for a ceasefire, the protection of ...
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Accessibility – The Amnesty International website has built in accessibility tools to help ensure that our activism is inclusive. To open the accessibility menu click on the accessibility icon located ...
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Syria: Historic opportunity to end and redress decades of grave human rights violations under President Assad must be seized
Responding to the ousting of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad following the seizure of power by opposition forces in the capital city of Damascus, Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty ...
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Niger: Prominent Civil Society Activist Arbitrarily Arrested
(Dakar, Geneve, Nairobi, Paris, December 9, 2024) – Niger’s military authorities should immediately drop all charges and release a prominent civil society activist and critic of the government, as he ...
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Russia: Reject discriminatory bill banning non-Russian speaking migrant children from schools
Reacting to news that the Russian State Duma has passed a bill banning migrant children who do not speak Russian from enrolling in schools, Natalia Zviagina, Amnesty International’s Russia Director, ...
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WA Premier must act on Coroner’s call to urgently close Unit 18
Amnesty International Australia welcomes Coroner Philip Urquhart’s provisional recommendation that Unit 18 at the Casuarina maximum security prison be shut down ‘as a matter of urgency’. The Coroner’s ...
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Lebanon: Israeli air strikes that killed at least 49 civilians, decimating entire families are further evidence of war crimes
Four separate air strikes by Israeli forces, which killed at least 49 civilians and decimated entire families in Lebanon, must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty International said today. Under ...