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  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Death Penalty

Singapore: Executions continue in flawed attempt to tackle drug crime, despite limited reforms

Singapore’s continued reliance on mandatory death sentences, which violate international law, has meant that dozens of low level drug offenders have been sent to death row in recent years, Amnesty International said in a new report released today. Cooperate or Die also reveals how death penalty reforms introduced in 2013, while reducing the number of people sentenced to death, do not go nearly far enough and in particular have left life and death decisions in the hands of the public prosecutor instead of judges.

Date:
11 October 2017
  • News
  • Egypt
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

2017 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders goes to Mohamed Zaree

Mohamed Zaree was selected by a jury of 10 global human rights organizations (See list below). The Award is given to Human Rights Defenders who have shown deep commitment to human rights and face great personal risk. The aim of the award is to provide protection through international recognition. Strongly supported by the City of Geneva, the Award will be presented by the United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights on Oct.

Date:
10 October 2017
  • News
  • Europe and Central Asia
  • Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Greece: Vote on legal gender recognition is an historic step forward for transgender rights

The passing of a new law reforming the legal recognition of gender identity, is an historical step forward for transgender people in Greece, said Amnesty International. The new law adopted today expressly states that transgender people can change their papers without the requirement of medical interventions or tests. “Today’s reform is a hard-won victory for transgender rights activists in Greece who have fought for equality for transgender people for years.

Date:
10 October 2017
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Refugees

Myanmar: Rohingya boat drowning shows no let-up in Rakhine state desperation

Reacting to the news that a boat has capsized in the Naf river separating Bangladesh and Myanmar today, killing at least 12 people including children, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said: “Today’s drowning and tragic loss of life is yet more evidence of the desperate situation still prevailing in Rakhine state. While the Myanmar military has engaged in a campaign of violence, there is mounting evidence that Rohingya women, men and children are now also fleeing the very real threat of starvation.

Date:
9 October 2017
  • News
  • Americas
  • Press Freedom

Colombia: Amnesty unveils first ever Botero tapestry Bogotá airport

Amnesty International has unveiled the first ever, monumental ‘Aubusson’ tapestry designed by Colombian artist and sculptor Fernando Botero at Bogota’s international airport. The twenty square metre tapestry, ‘The Musicians’, woven over the past several months by artisan weavers at Ateliers Pinton, in France, was commissioned by Art for Amnesty on behalf of Amnesty International to promote the human rights of millions across Colombia.

Date:
9 October 2017
  • News
  • Turkey
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

Turkey: Charges filed against jailed Amnesty staff and rights defenders must be rejected

Responding to news that a prosecutor has filed an indictment calling for jail terms of up to 16 years on terror charges for 11 human rights activists including İdil Eser and Taner Kiliç, the director and chair of Amnesty International Turkey, John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International’s Europe Director said: “This outrageous indictment contains no new evidence but instead repeats absurd allegations against some of Turkey’s most prominent human rights defenders.

Date:
8 October 2017
  • News
  • Tunisia
  • Torture and other ill-treatment

Tunisia: Faysal Baraket's torturers shielded from accountability 26 years after his death

Tunisia’s judicial authorities appear to be stalling the judicial investigation into the killing of Faysal Baraket, who was tortured to death in custody after speaking out against police brutality, Amnesty International and the World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) said today, marking the 26th anniversary of his death. Despite the indictment of 21 people on torture charges in October 2016, the most significant step in an eight-year investigation into the circumstances of Faysal Baraket’s death, the investigation phase of the case has yet to be concluded.

Date:
8 October 2017
  • News
  • Russian Federation

Russia: Scores of peaceful protesters detained at rallies on Vladimir Putin’s birthday

The Russian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release scores of peaceful protesters detained today and investigate allegations that the police used abusive force in Saint Petersburg and Yakutsk, Amnesty International said today. “The Kremlin’s intent is clear – to choke the life out of the protest movement – but it has also become clear in recent months that this reproachful goal cannot be achieved.

Date:
7 October 2017
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Cambodia: Relentless crackdown on peaceful dissent must end

The Cambodian authorities’ attempts to shut down the main opposition party ahead of next year’s general election is the latest move in a relentless effort to crush all forms of dissent, however peaceful, Amnesty International said today. The Interior Ministry today filed a complaint with the Supreme Court asking for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) to be dissolved ahead of the elections scheduled for July 2018.

Date:
6 October 2017
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Yemen: UN downplays Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s crimes against children

The international community has caved in to political pressure again, underplaying the suffering of hundreds of Yemeni children, by watering down criticism of the Saudi Arabia-led coalition’s grave violations of international law in the UN Secretary General’s annual Children and armed conflict report (CAAC), said Amnesty International. “Every time the United Nations makes concessions that allow perpetrators of crimes under international law to evade criticism or justice, it emboldens others to commit violations that cause immense misery to people around the world,” said Sherine Tadros, Head of UN office in New York for Amnesty International.

Date:
6 October 2017
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa
  • Armed Conflict

Why do war crimes against children bear no repercussions?

In her five young years, Buthaina has witnessed the type of violence and brutality that powerful people and governments often want to keep hidden. Pulled from the rubble of her family home in Yemen’s capital Sana’a, viral images show her sitting up in a hospital bed, clutching a teddy bear. Badly bruised, she struggles to pry open a swollen eye with her fingers, to look out on a world that has dealt her such cruelty.

Date:
6 October 2017
  • News
  • Mozambique
  • Killings and Disappearances

Mozambique: Killing of anti-corruption mayor must be investigated

In response to the apparent assassination of the mayor of Nampula City, Mahamudo Amurane, by an unidentified gunman late on 4 October in Nampula, Mozambique, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southern Africa Deprose Muchena said: “The killing of Mahamudo Amurane is tragic, deplorable and deeply suspicious. “Since coming into office in 2013, the Nampula City mayor had bravely tackled corruption head on.

Date:
5 October 2017
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Armed Conflict

Europe’s great betrayal of Afghan asylum seekers

“If Norway had believed us, my husband would be alive today,” Sadeqa tells me. She had fled to Norway with her family in 2015 after Hadi, her husband, had been kidnapped and beaten, but Norwegian authorities rejected their claim for asylum and returned them and their children to Afghanistan. A few months after their arrival, Hadi was killed. Sadeqa and her three young children are living in constant fear.

Date:
5 October 2017
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Armed Conflict

European governments return nearly 10,000 Afghans to risk of death and torture

European governments have put thousands of Afghans in harm’s way by forcibly returning them to a country where they are at serious risk of torture, kidnapping, death and other human rights abuses, Amnesty International said today in a new report. At a time when civilian casualties in Afghanistan are at their highest levels on record, the new report says, European governments are forcing increasing numbers of asylum-seekers back to the dangers from which they fled, in brazen violation of international law.

Date:
5 October 2017
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Refugees

Myanmar / Bangladesh: Rohingya refugees must not be forced home to abuse and discrimination

The international community must help ensure that no Rohingya refugees are forced back to Myanmar as long as they remain at risk of serious human rights violations following the army’s vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing, Amnesty International said today. The governments of Bangladesh and Myanmar this week announced that they have established a working group to discuss the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.

Date:
4 October 2017
  • News
  • Zimbabwe
  • Censorship and Free Speech

Zimbabwe: Journalist arrest a tactic to intimidate him and others for doing their work

In response to the arrest of Newsday journalist Kenneth Nyangani for reporting that first lady Grace Mugabe and officials from the ruling ZANU-PF party donated used clothes, including night dresses and underwear, to the party’s supporters in Mutare, Cousin Zilala, Executive Director of Amnesty International Zimbabwe said:  “The arrest of Kenneth Nyangani is a deliberate tactic to harass and intimidate him and other journalists in order to deter them from doing their work.

Date:
3 October 2017