Amnesty

December 18, 2021

Amnesty flags Qatar rights abuses with French soccer body

PARIS (AP) — Human rights activists in France have urged the country’s soccer officials to pay attention to rights violations…

August 11, 2021

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Dozens of women have described shocking sexual assaults by Ethiopian soldiers and allied forces in the…

April 8, 2020

ISTANBUL (Reuters) — Turkey’s parliament discussed a prisoner release law on Tuesday which aims to ease overcrowding in jails and…

November 10, 2019

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi security forces put up concrete barriers in central Baghdad Sunday, trying to hamper and block protesters’…

April 26, 2019

YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar began releasing prisoners on Friday after the president announced he would pardon nearly 7,000 people in…

April 22, 2019

Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on Sunday ordered that 551 convicts have their nationality reinstated. The Gulf Arab…

October 9, 2018

President Assad has promised that anyone who left the army or fled compulsory service will not be prosecuted. Under…

April 17, 2018

Myanmar’s new president said on Tuesday over 8,000 prisoners will be freed in an amnesty, a move the government said…

January 31, 2018

A Turkish court ordered the release of the jailed Turkish chairman of rights group Amnesty International, Taner Kilic, while the…

January 8, 2018

Israel announced the list of 20 foreign organizations whose representatives are to be banned from entering Israel because they advocate for…