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4th April 2024
Iran executes 853 people in eight-year high amid relentless repression and renewed ‘war on drugs’

Amnesty International is launching a powerful film showing the devastating impact less-lethal weapons are having on protesters globally, with many suffering life-long injuries and permanent disabilities. The new film, which features Leidy Cadena who was blinded by police in 2021 during a protest which was part of the National Strikes in Colombia, shows the devastating impact such weapons can have.

3rd April 2024
New short film highlights devastating impact less-lethal weapons are having on protesters globally.

Iranian women remove headscarves. Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers.

7th March 2024
Iran: Draconian campaign to enforce compulsory veiling laws through surveillance and mass car confiscations

Alexei Gorinov, an opposition politician from Moscow, Russia, sentenced to 7 years for distributing false information about the Russian army in Ukraine.

4th March 2024
Russia’s war censorship laws must go

Mohamad Ghobadlou, at risk of execution in Iran

24th January 2024
Iran: Executions of protester with mental disability and tortured Kurdish man mark plunge into new realms of cruelty

Security forces in Iran used rape and other forms of sexual violence, amounting to torture and other ill-treatment, to intimidate and punish peaceful protesters during the 2022 “Woman Life Freedom” uprising, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

6th December 2023
Iran: Security forces used rape and other sexual violence to crush “Woman Life Freedom” uprising with impunity

20th October 2023
Europe: Right to protest must be protected during latest escalations in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories

13th July 2023
France: Nahel shooting highlights need for overhaul of police firearms rules and an end to systemic racism in law enforcement

11th May 2023
Global: Amnesty International calls for universal social protection, as overlapping crises leave hundreds of millions facing disaster

17th April 2023
Urgent Action: Free conscientious objector Yuval Dag detained in Israel

Illustration of child protestor being tortured in Iran

16th March 2023
Iran: Child detainees subjected to flogging, electric shocks and sexual violence in brutal protest crackdown

South African police officers fire rubber bullet as they chase protestors in the streets of Johannesburg, on April 23, 2019 during a protest against the lack of service delivery or basic necessities such as access to water and electricity, housing difficulties and lack of public road maintenance. - Police and protesters exchanged volleys of teargas and stones in Johannesburg on April 23, 2019 after a suburb erupted into protest over public services ahead of polls on May 8. Dozens of residents in the working class Turffontein suburb blocked the main road through ward 55, burning tyres, mattresses and tree branches over allegedly unfair allocation of nearby new social housing. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images)

14th March 2023
Global: Dozens killed and thousands maimed by police misuse of rubber bullets

8th March 2023
Türkiye: International Women’s Day march must go ahead “without bans, beatings and other police violence”

16th February 2023
Russia: Journalist Maria Ponomarenko sentenced to six years in penal colony over Ukraine bombing post

Illustration of children in Thailand at a protest

7th February 2023
Thailand: Child protesters face ‘severe repercussions’ for taking part in mass demonstrations

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

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Amnesty International Ireland is an approved body under section 209 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. Section 209 of the TCA 1997 applies to an organisation which is a body for the promotion of the observance of the universal declaration of the Human Rights or the implementation of the European convention for the protection of Human Rights and fundamental freedoms