Morocco: Whistleblower Reveals How Authorities Used a Web of Surveillance to Silence Journalists and Activists

Ex-security agent provides rare first-hand insight into how Morocco surveillance system works from the inside. Targets secretly recorded in detention, offices, homes, cars and… Read more »

Algeria: Upper House of Parliament Must Reject Regressive Legislation Expanding the Death Penalty After 30 Years Without Executions

Responding to the lower house of the Algerian Parliament adopting today legal amendments that expand the scope of the death penalty after more than three decades without any… Read more »

Mali: Damning Evidence of War Crimes By State Armed Forces and Wagner Group Personnel - New Report

Killings of civilians during military joint operations Civilians tortured to death in detention, others subjected to simulated drowning, beatings and electric shocks Fulani, Arabs… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: M23 Fighters Abused Miners and Trafficked Gold and Coltan to Rwanda

The plunder by M23 and Rwanda of DRC's gold and coltan may amount to war crime of pillage M23's multiple violations that also involve Rwandans may amount to war crimes "Rwanda has… Read more »

Algeria: Threats to Resume Executions After 30 Years Severe Blow to Human Rights

Algeria's authorities must immediately abandon any plans to expand the scope of the death penalty or resume executions after more than three decades without carrying one out, said… Read more »

Tunisia: Tunisia - Authorities Must Immediately Release Rached Ghannouchi Amid Severe Fair Trial Violations and Serious Health Concerns

Tunisian authorities must release prominent opposition politician Rached Ghannouchi, quash his convictions and end the politically motivated prosecutions against him marred by… Read more »

Lesotho: Authorities Must Investigate Reported Abduction and Assault of Journalist Kananelo Boloetse

Responding to reports that journalist and human rights defender Kananelo Boloetse was abducted on 5 September from his home in Maseru, interrogated about his work, assaulted and… Read more »

Tunisia: Upheld Convictions in Mass 'Conspiracy Case' a Travesty of Justice

In response to the Tunis Court of Cassation upholding the convictions and lengthy prison sentences against 34 defendants in the politically motivated 'conspiracy case', Yasmine… Read more »

Tunisia: Final Judicial Avenue to Overturn Convictions in Unjust 'Conspiracy' Case

Ahead of the final appeal hearing at Tunisia's Court of Cassation on 3 September in the unjust "conspiracy case", which is a chance to overturn the convictions of opposition… Read more »

Namibia: Drought Displaced Angolans Face Human Rights Abuses

Angolan women and children displaced by drought into Namibia face serious human rights abuses arising from a lack of safe and legal migration pathways for people forced across… Read more »

Africa: Israel/OPT - South Africa ICJ Submission Must Spur States to Press Israel to End Its Genocide in Gaza

The Republic of South Africa's submission of evidence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) documenting Israel's non-compliance with legally binding provisional orders issued… Read more »

Zambia: Authorities Must Investigate Fatal Shooting of Former Minister and End Post-Election Crackdown

Responding to the reported fatal shooting of opposition party member and former cabinet minister Mutotwe Kafwaya during a security operation in Kabulonga, Lusaka on 14 August, and… Read more »

Zambia: Zambia - Stalled Reforms Risk Reversing Human Rights Gains

Candidates running in Zambia's general elections on 13 August must commit to reversing a growing pattern of authoritarian practices that threaten human rights before, during and… Read more »

Africa: FIFA - Governance Crisis Reveals Urgent Need for Rights Reform

Human Rights Groups Call for Systemic Transformation to Prevent History Repeating Itself Read more »

Africa: African States Must Refuse to Be Complicit With the USA's Policy of 'Third Country Removals'

On 12 June, a group of 17 people - among them Turks, Afghans and Iranians - were forcibly removed from the United States and flown to Bangui, in the Central African Republic (CAR),… Read more »

Ethiopia: Ethiopia - Tigray Residents At Renewed Risk of Human Rights Violations As Violence Returns to the Region

In response to the violent clashes in parts of Tigray - Ethiopia's northern region - between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on 1 August, Amnesty… Read more »

Morocco: EU - European Leaders Must Respond With Humanity and Solidarity to the Situation in Ceuta

Ahead of tomorrow's meeting of European countries' ministries of interior on the European Union's (EU) response to the situation in Ceuta, Dinushika Dissanayake, Amnesty… Read more »

Morocco: Spain - Ensure Human Rights, Dignity and Humanity Are Central in Response to Exceptional Arrival of People in Ceuta

Reacting to the crossing of tens of thousands of people, including children, from Morocco to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta and the reported deaths of 43 people, Esteban… Read more »

Mali: Mali - Evidence of War Crimes By Armed Groups in Gao Region

Summary killings of at least 19 Malian soldiers by members of armed groups in Tabrichat, a village in the Gao region, in northern Mali, must be investigated as war crimes, Amnesty… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria - Shell Documents Expose 'Basket' Pipeline, 'Missing' Wells and U.S.$10.9bn Decommissioning Costs As Pollution Scandal Grows

Shell must answer for decades of pollution in the Niger Delta after internal company documents revealed broken rules, failing infrastructure and unresolved clean-up costs that risk… Read more »

Ghana: Ghana - Still No Law Criminalizing Witchcraft Accusations Six Years After Akua Denteh's Fatal Lynching

Ghanaian authorities have failed in their duty to protect hundreds of victims of witchcraft accusations by delaying passing the Anti-Witchcraft Accusations Bill, said Amnesty… Read more »

Zambia: Zambia - Authorities Must Free Journalist Arrested Over Social Media Posts

Responding to the charges brought against detained Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) journalist MacPherson Mukuka, reportedly related to the violation of Section 10… Read more »

Africa: Withdrawal From The Rome Statute Consecrates Impunity And Threatens To Deny Victims Of War Crimes Justice And Reparations

Reacting to the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Marceau Sivieude,… Read more »

Sudan: RSF Atrocities in El Fasher 'A Stain on the Conscience of Humanity' - New Report

RSF committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing Children deliberately targeted by RSF fighters during attacks Ceasefire and international protection force urgently… Read more »

Nigeria: Authorities Must Investigate Deaths of At Least 150 Fulani People in Military Camp

The Nigerian authorities must conduct a prompt, thorough, independent, impartial, transparent and effective investigation into the reported deaths of least 150 members of the… Read more »