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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

A protestor with a Palestine flag

20th October 2023

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

Justice for Nahel graffiti

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

Yuval Dag

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

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

8th March 2023

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

Maria Ponomarenko

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

Aleksei Navalny

23rd January 2023

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

Ilya Yashin

12th December 2022

Russia: Opposition politician Ilya Yashin sentenced to eight and half years in jail for denouncing Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine

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