TEHRAN, August 11 - A leader of one of Cuba's largest dissident groups has been held incommunicado for a week in the eastern part of the country, the human rights organization Amnesty International said Friday.
TEHRAN, August 1- Amnesty International says one of its employees was targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software using Saudi protest bait, in what is believed to be part of a deliberate attempt to spy on the rights group.
TEHRAN, July 12 - Amnesty International says the United Arab Emirates (UAE) — a key partner of Saudi Arabia in a military aggression against and partial occupation of Yemen — and its allied local militia have been torturing captives at a network of clandestine prisons in southern Yemen.
TEHRAN, July 02 - Security forces in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua have unlawfully killed at least 95 people in the eight years since 2010, with almost no accountability, rights group Amnesty International said in a report on Monday.
TEHRAN, June 25 - Leading rights group Amnesty International warned Monday that freedom of assembly was at risk in Poland just as the EU was poised to launch hearings over fears that Warsaw was undermining judicial independence.
TEHRAN, June 22 - Amnesty International says Saudi Arabian-backed militants could be committing war crimes in Yemen by interfering with the flow of humanitarian supplies into the impoverished country.
TEHRAN, May 24 - Nigeria's military committed war crimes and crimes against humanity including torture, rape and killing civilians during its fight against Boko Haram, human rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday.
TEHRAN, May 3 - Amnesty International expressed concern over “unfair” trials for civilians at military courts in Bahrain and called on King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifah to order the retrial of four men who have recently been sentenced to life imprisonment.
TEHRAN, April 12 - Amnesty International has expressed grave concern over pronunciation of death sentences and resumption of executions in Bahrain as the ruling Al Khalifah regime presses ahead with its heavy-handed crackdown on pro-democracy campaigners in the country.
TEHRAN, March 16 - Amnesty International has confirmed that two Bahraini political dissidents have been subjected to various forms of torture in jail as the kingdom’s ruling Al Khalifah dynasty presses ahead with its heavy-handed clampdown on pro-democracy campaigners in the tiny Persian Gulf country.
TEHRAN, January 18 -Amnesty International has denounced the Saudi regime’s relentless crackdown on activists and critics, urging the immediate and unconditional release of those detained for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, among them a prominent cleric.
TEHRAN, January 18 -Amnesty International has denounced the Saudi regime’s relentless crackdown on activists and critics, urging the immediate and unconditional release of those detained for peacefully exercising their right to freedom of expression, among them a prominent cleric.
TEHRAN, December 15 - Ordinary people are bearing the brunt of the ongoing political crisis in the Persian Gulf region, involving Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Egypt on one side and the tiny kingdom of Qatar, Amnesty International said.
TEHRAN, December 12 - European governments are complicit in grave human rights violations in Libya through their support for authorities there who often work with people smugglers and torture refugees and migrants, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, December 12 - The EU has reached an agreement with Libya aimed at stopping the flow of refugees across the central Mediterranean to the north. Under the deal, the EU has been training the Libyan coast guard to intercept boats carrying refugees.
TEHRAN, December 9 - Amnesty International Ireland could face criminal charges after an Irish regulatory body found it broke the law by accepting a donation from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation for an abortion rights campaign.
TEHRAN, November 7 -Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal to restore water, food, and power services to a refugee detention center that has been abandoned by Australia on Manus Island, sparking human rights concerns.
TEHRAN, October 5 - Amnesty International says the European Union is “brazenly” violating international law by forcing thousands of Afghan refugees back to their war-torn homeland, where they face the risks of death, torture and other “horrors.”
TEHRAN, September 28 - Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Security Council to spare no efforts to end the brutal crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, suggesting the imposition of a “comprehensive arms embargo” on the Southeast Asian country.
TEHRAN, September 22 - Amnesty International said a bomb used by the Saudi regime in a fatal airstrike on an apartment building in the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, in August was made in the United States.