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- India is abusing anti-money laundering laws to crack down human rights https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/india-stop-abusing-counterterrorism-regulations/ 4 comments
- Chelsea Manning's 14 days in solitary for suicide attempt is 'cruel and inhuman' https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/chelsea-mannings-14-days-solitary-suicide-attempt-cruel-and-inhuman 41 comments
- EU: France, Germany and Italy risk unravelling landmark AI Act negotiations https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/eu-france-germany-and-italy-risk-unravelling-landmark-ai-act-negotiations/ 6 comments technology
- India: Government’s pursuit of new surveillance technology heightens human rights concerns https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/03/india-governments-pursuit-of-new-surveillance-technology-heightens-human-rights-concerns/ 9 comments worldnews
- El Salvador: President Bukele engulfs the country in a human rights crisis after three years in government https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/06/el-salvador-president-bukele-human-rights-crisis/ 3 comments worldnews
- Ukraine: Russian forces extrajudicially executing civilians in apparent war crimes – new testimony - Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/04/ukraine-russian-forces-extrajudicially-executing-civilians-in-apparent-war-crimes-new-testimony/ 2 comments worldnews
- Global human rights in 2021: profit and power over people https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/03/political-leaders-and-corporate-titans-put-profit-and-power-ahead-of-people-betraying-promises-for-fair-recovery-from-pandemic/ 4 comments worldnews
- Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/ 13 comments philosophy
- Poland: A Year On, Abortion Ruling Harms Women https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/10/poland-a-year-on-abortion-ruling-harms-women/ 115 comments europe
- Iran: Security forces use live ammunition and birdshot to crush Khuzestan protests, 8 dead https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/07/iran-security-forces-use-live-ammunition-and-birdshot-to-crush-khuzestan-protests/ 4 comments worldnews
- Signal secure on a hacked phone? RE Pegasus spyware https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2021/07/forensic-methodology-report-how-to-catch-nso-groups-pegasus/ 30 comments signal
- Moroccan authorities' smear campaign against Amnesty International underlines intolerance of scrutiny https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/morocco-and-western-sahara-government-smear-campaign-against-amnesty-international-underlines-intolerance-of-scrutiny/ 17 comments worldnews
- Amnesty International death penalty report 2020 https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/death-penalty-2020-middle-east-and-north-africa-dominates-list-of-worlds-top-executioners/ 4 comments worldnews
- Ethiopia: Three killed, 19 injured in Tigray as Eritrean troops open fire on civilians https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/ethiopia-three-killed-19-injured-in-tigray-as-eritrean-troops-open-fire-on-civilians-2/ 20 comments worldnews
- Ethiopia: Three killed, 19 injured in Tigray as Eritrean troops open fire on civilians https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/04/ethiopia-three-killed-19-injured-in-tigray-as-eritrean-troops-open-fire-on-civilians-2/ 5 comments worldnews
- [Iran] Execution of journalist Rouhollah Zam a ‘deadly blow’ to freedom of expression https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/12/iran-execution-of-journalist-rouhollah-zam-a-deadly-blow-to-freedom-of-expression/ 3 comments worldnews
- Thailand: Use of water cannons to disperse tear gas and dye slurry against peaceful protestors marks deeply alarming escalation in policing protests https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/10/thailand-water-cannons-deeply-alarming-escalation/ 8 comments worldnews
- Amnesty International India halts its work on upholding human rights in India due to reprisal from Government of India https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/09/amnesty-international-india-halts-its-work-on-upholding-human-rights-in-india-due-to-reprisal-from-government-of-india/ 18 comments india
- Secret execution of wrestler Navid Afkari a 'travesty of justice' https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/iran-secret-execution-wrestler-navid-afkari-travesty-justice 62 comments worldnews
- Poland: Activists at risk of 10-year jail term for COVID-19 poster campaign challenging government statistics | Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/06/poland-activists-at-risk-of-10-year-jail-term-for-covid-19-poster-campaign-challenging-government-statistics/ 7 comments europe
- Greece: Inhumane asylum measures will put lives at risk https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/03/greece-inhumane-asylum-measures-will-put-lives-at-risk/ 6 comments worldnews
- Hundreds of people have been detained in Turkey for commenting or reporting on Turkey’s recent military offensive in northeast Syria and are facing absurd criminal charges as the government intensifies its crackdown on critical voices, said Amnesty International in a report published today. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/turkey-hundreds-arrested-in-crackdown-on-critics-of-military-offensive-in-syria/ 52 comments worldnews
- Reality Check: Migrant Workers Rights with Four Years to Qatar 2022 World Cup https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2019/02/reality-check-migrant-workers-rights-with-four-years-to-qatar-2022-world-cup/ 3 comments soccer
- Amnesty International : "Police must end use of excessive force against protesters and high school children in France" https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/12/police-must-end-use-of-excessive-force-against-protesters-and-high-school-children-in-france/ 7 comments europe
- Amnesty International: Venezuelan government responsible for 'worst human rights crisis in its history'-new report finds. https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/venezuela-government-responsible-worst-human-rights-crisis-its-history-new-report#.w6tiqsscvwx.twitter 208 comments worldnews
- Rohingya Muslim terrorist massacred Hindus in Burma https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/05/myanmar-new-evidence-reveals-rohingya-armed-group-massacred-scores-in-rakhine-state/ 29 comments worldnews
- An incredible 96% of Germans [...] are still open to the idea of hosting more [refugees] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2016/05/survey-4-in-5-worldwide-welcome-refugees/ 96 comments germany
- A Palestinian Poet faces execution in Saudi Arabia for exercising his free expression in renouncing Islam. Amnesty report https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde23/2925/2015/en/ 64 comments worldnews
- Ukraine: Overwhelming new evidence of prisoners being tortured and killed amid conflict https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/05/ukraine-new-evidence-prisoners-tortured-and-killed-amid-conflict/ 10 comments worldnews
- Ukraine: Overwhelming new evidence of prisoners being tortured and killed amid conflict – Amnesty http://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ukraine-overwhelming-new-evidence-prisoners-being-tortured-and-killed-amid-conflict 49 comments russia
- Amnesty International: Ukraine must stop ongoing abuses and war crimes by pro-Ukrainian volunteer forces http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/ukraine-must-stop-ongoing-abuses-and-war-crimes-pro-ukrainian-volunteer-forces-2014-09-08 25 comments worldnews
- Rampant torture, arbitrary arrests and detentions signal catastrophic decline in human rights one year after ousting of Morsi http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/egypt-anniversary-morsi-ousting-2014-07-02 66 comments worldnews
- Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories: Trigger-happy: Israel’s use of excessive force in the West Bank http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/mde15/002/2014/en 6 comments worldnews
- Amnesty International calls on Obama to Commute Bradley Manning’s sentence and investigate the abuses he exposed https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/usa-commute-bradley-manning-s-sentence-and-investigate-abuses-he-exposed-2013-08-21 278 comments politics
- Amnesty International: Detention of Guardian employee at Heathrow unlawful and unwarranted https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/uk-detention-guardian-employee-heathrow-unlawful-and-unwarranted-2013-08-18 11 comments worldnews
- The U.S. government should immediately drop the most serious charges against Pvt. Bradley Manning, Amnesty International said today after the conclusion of all testimony in the case. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/bradley-manning-us-must-drop-aiding-enemy-charge-2013-07-12 284 comments politics
- Turkey: Anti-terror arrests target prominent human rights lawyers -- Overnight police raids in several Turkish cities have resulted in the arrest of 15 human rights lawyers known for defending individuals’ right to freedom of speech and victims of police violence, Amnesty International said. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/turkey-anti-terror-arrests-target-prominent-human-rights-lawyers-2013-01-18 3 comments worldnews
- Iran executed at least 600 in 2011 in what Amnesty International has called a "killing spree of staggering proportions" http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran/report-2011 7 comments worldnews
- A court in Vinnytsya, Ukraine, ordered a trade union activist to undergo a forced psychiatric examination after prosecutors argued that he has an "excessive awareness of his own and others' rights" and an "uncontrollable readiness to defend these rights in unrealistic ways." http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?newsid=19069 40 comments worldnews
- Amnesty International has accused the Israeli authorities of subjecting jailed nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment by holding him in solitary confinement. http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/israeli-nuclear-whistleblower-returned-solitary-confinement-2010-06-18 10 comments worldnews