June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Ukraine
Report on the attack by Russian armed forces on a theatre building in Mariupol on 16 March 2022 (security-related and humanitarian developments in Mariupol since the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022; civilian casualties; other topics)
"Children": Attack on the Donetsk Regional Academic Drama Theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine [EUR 50/5713/2022] (Special or Analytical Report, English)
29 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
India
Rajasthan state: Man killed by 2 perpetrators after having voiced his support in social media for a politician who had made Islamophobic statements
India: Amnesty International condemns shocking murder of Kanhaiya Lal (Appeal or News Release, English)
29 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Senegal
Dakar and other cities: : Several people killed, injured or arbitrarily arrested in protests met with violence by security forces
Senegal. Prohibitions, violence, arbitrary arrests: the right to protest is under threat (Appeal or News Release, English)
29 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Burundi
Statement to the UN Human Rights Council on the human rights situation (restrictions on freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly)
Burundi: Government must uphold its human rights obligations, curb widespread impunity [IOR 40/5768/2022] (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
India
Co-founder of independent fact-checking website ALT-News arrested for allegedly hurting religious sentiments and promoting enmity in social media
India: Free Human Rights Defender Mohammed Zubair (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Egypt
10 people sentenced to death and 153 to prison terms ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment in terrorism trial characterised by enforced disappearances and torture
Egypt: Quash death sentences in torture-tainted grossly unfair mass trial (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Pakistan
Karachi: Police use violence against participants in protests against power cuts
Pakistan: Authorities must respect and facilitate people’s right to protest (Appeal or News Release, English)
28 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
Iran
Arbitrarily detained human rights defender is denied necessary medication after returning to prison from hospital
Tortured Iranian defender denied medication; Twelfth UA: 105/15 [MDE 13/5775/2022] (Appeal or News Release, English)
27 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International
China
Uighur student to be tried for separatism
China: Uyghur student facing trial highlights government push to jail Muslims (Appeal or News Release, English)
26 June 2022 | AI – Amnesty International (Author), HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author), ACHR - Access Center for Human Rights; Active Lebanon; Alkarama Foundation; AJEM - Association Justice & Mercy et al. (Author)
Lebanon
Joint NGO statement calling on the Lebanese authorities to enforce anti-torture law
Joint statement calling on Lebanon to enforce Anti-Torture Law [MDE 18/5763/2022] (Appeal or News Release, English)