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...

Saudi Arabian authorities must immediately release Fahd Ramadhan, a Yemeni-Dutch national, who has been arbitrarily detained without charge or access to legal representation for over six months, Amnesty International said today. On 20 November 2023, two days after arriving in Saudi Arabia, Ramadhan...

Ahead of the preliminary hearing of the ‘El Hiblu 3’ on 30 May in Malta, where three young men from West Africa face life imprisonment for attempting to stop their illegal return to Libya by the captain of the ship that rescued them at sea, Elisa De Pieri, Amnesty International’s Regional...

Reacting to the Georgian parliament’s decision to override the presidential veto on the “foreign influence” bill, amid open threats by a top police official to peaceful protesters, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The vote to override the...

By Lucia Masuka In February this year, anti-death penalty campaigners welcomed the Zimbabwean Cabinet’s approval of principles for a bill to remove the death penalty from the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23 and the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Act Chapter 9:07, as well as...

By Sarah Jackson On 9 and 10 May 2024, over 2 000 civil society leaders converged in Nairobi, Kenya, at the 69th UN Civil Society Conference to envision a people’s agenda for the UN Summit of the Future. The high-level meeting, scheduled for September, seeks multilateral solutions to the world’s...

Recorded executions soared to their highest number in almost a decade in 2023 with a sharp rise across the Middle East and in Somalia, where executions increased by more than six times, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual report on the global use of the death penalty...

How did your journey into activism come about? In my freshman year of college at Samford University, I was tasked with taking over our chapter of Amnesty International. It had mostly died out during the pandemic and I spent my year as president increasing membership and engaging in different youth...

Amnesty International’s monitoring of the global use of the death penalty recorded 1,153 known executions in 2023, an increase by 31% from 883 in 2022. However, there was a significant decrease in executing countries, from 20 in 2022 to 16 in 2023.