Amnesty International has called on football's global governing body to put pressure on Qatar to improve labor conditions for hundreds of thousands of temporary migrant workers residing on the tiny Persian Gulf peninsula.
Wednesday, 02 December 2020_Egypt executed 57 men and women in October and November, nearly double the 32 people reported in the whole of 2019, Amnesty International says.
Friday, 02 October 2020_Amnesty International has warned against life-threatening conditions at Saudi Arabia's squalid detention centers, where thousands of Ethiopian migrants are languishing, stating that the African detainees are enduring “unimaginable cruelty” during the coronavirus pandemic and some of them have lost their lives.
Saturday, 12 September 2020_Amnesty International has called on Nigeria to disclose the findings of a probe that was ordered by the government three years ago into rights abuses committed by security forces.
Tuesday, 14 July 2020 _The photos of only some of the nurses, doctors and social care assistants who sacrificed their lives to save those of others. Brave human beings at the frontline of the battle against the deadly novel coronavirus.
Thursday, 25 June_Amnesty International has rebuked Saudi Arabia’s crackdown against campaigners and intellectuals, calling upon authorities to immediately release a group of Saudi women activists that have been “detained simply for demanding equality and defending human rights.”
Tehran, 15 May _Amnesty International has called on King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia to order the freedom of a group of women's rights activists, who were detained two years ago in a wide scale crackdown across the kingdom, describing their ongoing plight as “heartbreaking.”
TEHRAN, Sept 19_Amnesty International slams the fatal shooting of a Palestinian woman by the Israeli military, saying she “did not pose any immediate danger” to the regime’s forces and that her death underscores the need for international justice.
TEHRAN, Aug 01 - Amnesty International has censured the “harsh and inhumane conditions” of political prisoners in Egypt, calling on the African country’s authorities to immediately end the rights abuses of the detainees there.
TEHRAN, Jul 14 -Just two weeks after claiming to be in a dire resource crisis necessitating billions of dollars of additional funding to respond to asylum-seekers at the Mexico-United States border, the Trump administration is poised to begin massive, costly raids on Sunday targeting potentially thousands of asylum-seeking families. Some reports suggest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents may sweep up other “collateral arrests” as they troll communities for their targets.
TEHRAN, Jul 8 - Amnesty International urgently called for international pressure and an immediate U.N. investigation to help end what it says are possible crimes against humanity in the Philippine president's bloody anti-drug crackdown.
TEHRAN, Jul 3 - Amnesty International has condemned the Bahraini regime’s harassment and intimidation of a former legislator and intensified clampdown on social media activists, as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on political dissidents and pro-democracy activists in the Persian Gulf kingdom.
TEHRAN, Jul 1 - President Donald Trump’s decision to allow US companies to sell parts to Huawei is a climbdown in his policies toward China, but doesn’t exclude the firm from the US’ blacklist, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said.
TEHRAN, Jun 6 -Amnesty International says soaring violence in Sudan calls for “urgent international response”, three days after security forces launched a bloody crackdown on a peaceful sit-in in capital Khartoum, killing scores of people.
TEHRAN, Jun 5 - Amnesty International has criticized the French government, accusing authorities there of intimidating those who are involved in supporting migrants.
TEHRAN, Apr 12 - Amnesty International says Saudi Arabia is making use of the death penalty to crush opposition figures, as a crackdown led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman against Muslim preachers, members of the press and intellectuals widens in the conservative oil-rich kingdom.
TEHRAN, Mar 10 - An official said 51,000 Iranian prisoners have so far been released under the recent clemency granted by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory.
TEHRAN, Feb 18 - Rights group Amnesty International called Monday for the release of an Egyptian lawyer arrested after posing in a photo wearing a yellow vest symbolic of protests in France.
TEHRAN, Feb 06 - Amnesty International accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of diverting arms supplied by Western and other states to 'unaccountable militias accused of war crimes' in Yemen.