Burkina Faso: Authorities must immediately release Guy Herve Kam and Lt-Colonel Zoungrana

Reacting to news that Moldova’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s Criminal Code which redefine “high treason,” Veaceslav Tofan, Executive Director of Amnesty International Moldova, said: “The amendment to Moldova’s Criminal Code adopted by the parliament is alarming. The broadened...

Two years after summary dismissal of judges by the president, harassment, prosecutions and denial of rights of judges continue Tunisian authorities must end the ongoing erosion of judicial independence in the country, Amnesty International said today, marking two years since President Kais Saied...

The Russian authorities are taking increasingly severe reprisals against children and their families, particularly those opposing Russia’s aggression in Ukraine, in their relentless crackdown on all dissent, Amnesty International said in a new publication today. The document, Russia: “Your children...

Russian authorities, in their crackdown on dissent and particularly those opposing Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, do not only silence and imprison adults but target children as well. They deny children their right to freedom of expression, and use threats and reprisals against children...

On 14 December 2023, the Azerbaijani authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure and unrelenting government critic, Tofig Yagublu, on spurious forgery and fraud charges. A wave of arrests in Azerbaijan that has been targeting independent journalists has now come for one of the country’s most...

On 29 May 2024, Jordanian authorities released Syrian refugee and student journalist Atiya Mohammad Abu Salem after 50 days of holding him in arbitrary detention, during which he was at risk of forcible return to Syria.

On 20 May, Etienne Fakaba Sissoko, a Malian economist and university professor, was convicted on charges of defamation, damaging the state’s reputation and distributing fake news. He was sentenced to two years in jail, with one year suspended, and a fine of XOF 3 million (approximately 4,500...

Jamie Mills was executed in Alabama on 30 May 2024. He was convicted in 2007 of the murder of an elderly couple in 2004 and sentenced to death after the jury voted 11-1 for the death penalty. The courts denied final appeals, including the claim that the key prosecution witness, JoAnn Mills, then...

Tunisian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on media and freedom of expression in recent weeks, sentencing two journalists and a media founder to prison sentences, detaining another media figure, and intimidating private media, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The...

Responding to today’s conviction of 14 Hong Kong opposition figures accused of “conspiring to subvert state power”, Amnesty International’s China Director Sarah Brooks said:  “This unprecedented mass conviction is the most ruthless illustration yet of how Hong Kong’s National Security Law is...

States gathering for a key climate meeting in Bonn next week in preparation for COP29 in Azerbaijan must address years of broken pledges and inadequate financial support from polluting nations by making substantive progress towards agreeing increased and binding funding commitments to help...