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Supporters of ousted president Pedro Castillo clash with police forces in the Peruvian Andean city of Juliaca, on January 7, 2023.

30th January 2023
Peru: Amnesty International deploys crisis response team to investigate serious human rights violations

Arshia Takdastan, aged 18, Mehdi Mohammadifard, aged 19, and Javad Rouhi, aged 31, each received two death sentences in December 2022 for “enmity against God” (moharebeh) and “corruption on earth” (efsad-e fel arz) in Iran

27th January 2023
Iran: Quash death sentences of young protesters subjected to gruesome torture

27th January 2023
Israel/OPT: Jenin bloodshed is a horrifying reminder of the cost of impunity

23rd January 2023
Russia: Two years after Aleksei Navalny’s arrest, Russian opposition figures suppressed, jailed or exiled

Campaigners call for a torture free trade treaty in London

20th January 2023
Amnesty International signs declaration calling for international controls to combat trade in tools of torture

A mural of Iranian LGBTI rights defender Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani (Sareh) and Elham Choubdar

20th January 2023
Good news! Death sentence overturned against Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani (Sareh) and Elham Choubdar

13th January 2023
Sean Binder and Sarah Mardini: Humanitarian’s ordeal must now end

An ADNOC pipeline in UAE, whose chief exec has been appointed president-delegate of COP28

12th January 2023
Climate: Putting UAE oil chief in charge of COP28 threatens further climate chaos

Mohamad Ghobadlou, at risk of execution in Iran

11th January 2023
Iran: Young man at grave risk of execution in connection with protests amid ‘killing spree’

A Palestine boy sits on a chair with a national flag as Israeli authorities demolish a school site in the village of Yatta, south of the West Bank city of Hebron and to be relocated in another area, on July 11 2018.

11th January 2023
Israel/OPT: Flag restrictions are the latest attempt to silence Palestinians and reduce their visibility

Protestors ahead of COP27 stand against climate change

10th January 2023
Climate: Record breaking heat in 2022 shows urgent need to act and avert climate breakdown

9th January 2023
Brazil: Amnesty International condemns the attacks and invasion of public buildings in Brasilia by extremist groups

5th January 2023
Greece: ‘Farcical’ trial of Sean Binder and rescue volunteers begins next week

4th January 2023
Saudi Arabia: At Al-Nassr, Cristiano Ronaldo should draw attention to human rights issues

Salah Hammouri, French-Palestinian lawyer and field researcher at Palestinian NGO "Addameer (Conscience) for Prisoner Support and Human Rights", which supports political prisoners detained in Israel and in Palestinian prisons, and user of one of six devices reportedly hacked with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, speaks before cameras at the offices of al-Haq Centre for Applied International Law in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on November 8, 2021. - An investigation by a European rights group published on November 8 found that Israeli-made Pegasus spyware was used to hack the phones of staff of Palestinian civil society groups targeted by Israel. The revelations by Frontline Defenders -- confirmed by Amnesty International and the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab -- mark the latest development in the widening controversy surrounding six prominent Palestinian groups designated as "terrorist" organisations by Israel's defence ministry last month.

22nd December 2022
Israel/OPT: A perfect storm of apartheid policies led to Salah Hammouri’s deportation

A man walks in front of a police station destroyed by shelling in Kharkiv on March 25, 2022, during Russia's military invasion launched on Ukraine. - Russian strikes targeting a medical facility in Kharkiv on March 25, 2022, killed at least four civilians and wounded several others, Ukrainian officials said.

21st December 2022
Ukraine: Devastating power cuts undermining civilian life as Christmas approaches

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