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Thai children ‘face jail time’ after protest arrests: Amnesty

A 14-year-old charged with insulting the king. A 13-year-old physically dragged out of a restaurant by police officers. A 17-year-old shot with rubber bullets and beaten. These are among the stories revealed in a new report from Amnesty International, which documents alleged human rights violations in connection to children participating in Thailand’s long-running protests and was released on Wednesday. Sainam, who had previously been shot with rubber-coated bullets, was a […]

8 February 2023

International

Amnesty calls on Saudi Arabia to end travel bans for released activists

INTERNATIONAL Saudi authorities must end the use of travel bans against human rights activists, journalists, and critics of the government, says Amnesty International. As part of a campaign launched on Monday, the London-based rights group cited the plight of 30 human rights defenders who were subject to lengthy travel bans once they had completed their prison sentences. "Saudi Arabian authorities' arbitrary use of travel bans against activists and human rights defenders […]

10 May 2022

International News

Lebanon opens probe into allegations of torture of Syrian refugees

Lebanon's prosecutor general has ordered a probe into the alleged torture of more than 20 Syrians in custody following a report by Amnesty International, state media reported. Ghassan Oueidat announced the launch of the probe on Monday in response to the Amnesty report, which accused Lebanese authorities of "cruel and abusive" treatment and torture of Syrians that had been imprisoned or interrogated. In the report, the rights group blamed in particular […]

30 March 2021

International News

US urged to stop drone sales to UAE over civilian deaths in Yemen and Libya

Amnesty International has called on the United States to stop the sale of 18 sophisticated armed MQ-9B aerial drones to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in light of evidence that civilians are being killed during attacks in war-ravaged Yemen and Libya. Philippe Nassif, the advocacy director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty, said in a statement on Monday that the US risked "complicity in likely war crimes […]

11 November 2020

International News

Report: Gulf states using Covid-19 as cover to squash dissent

Amnesty International documents that Gulf’s Arab monarchies have used the pandemic as a pretext to increase repressive measures. A new human rights report by Amnesty International (AI), shows that Covid-19 restrictions have created a perfect opportunity for Arab autocratic states, like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, to increase the suppression of their populations. In defence of their behaviour, the states claim their measures are taken in the name of protecting […]

17 October 2020

International News

Amnesty accuses Iran of widespread torture during 2019 protests

Rights group Amnesty International has accused Iran of using torture to extract confessions, saying hundreds of people have been jailed since a sweeping crackdown against protests last year. Demonstrations erupted across Iran in November 2019 after a significant petrol price rise, but they were put down by the Iranian security forces with mass arrests amid a near-total internet blackout. Amnesty said it had gathered dozens of testimonies from the 7,000 […]

2 September 2020

International News

India’s police ‘complicit’ in anti-Muslim riots, alleges Amnesty

Police in Delhi were "complicit and an active participant" in the February violence in which 53 people, mostly Muslims, were killed, according to an investigation by Amnesty International India. "The Delhi police personnel were complicit and an active participant in the violence that took place in Delhi in February 2020, yet in the last six months not a single investigation has been opened into the human rights violations committed by […]

28 August 2020

International News

Myanmar air raids ‘that killed children amount to war crimes’

Myanmar's military has killed civilians, including children, in indiscriminate air attacks amid worsening conflict in the country's western Rakhine and Chin states, a prominent rights group has said, urging the United Nations Security Council to launch a war crimes investigation. In a report on Wednesday, Amnesty International said it collected new evidence showing Myanmar's military - also known as the Tatmadaw - bombed several villages in Chin state in March […]

8 July 2020

International News

Amnesty International calls on Jordan to provide medical care to refugees in Rukban camp

In a statement released on Thursday, Amnesty International called on the Jordanian authorities to provide medical care to the refugees in Rukban camp, located on the border with Jordan in the Syrian Desert, in anticipation of a possible outbreak of the coronavirus in the area. Lynn Maalouf, director of Middle East Research at the organisation, urged Jordanian authorities to: “Allow those seeking medical treatment to access facilities in Jordan, and […]

8 May 2020

Amnesty International

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