On 3 July 2020, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law the “Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020”, which replaces the Human Security Act of 2007. Amnesty International has called on the Philippine government to reject this legislation that contains dangerous provisions and risks further undermining human rights in the country.
The petition alleges that at the Xuan Loc Penitentiary in Dong Nai province, where Nguyen Van Duc Do is serving an 11-year sentence, guards tortured him for requesting time on weekends to sunbathe
According to a press release issued by the Amnesty International, the refugees have been held in inhuman conditions with no toilet in their cell and no access to clean drinking water, which means they are forced to drink unclean water. They are also not provided with sufficient food portions. And they don’t have mattresses and have to sleep on a sheet of paper on the floor
Migrant workers employed on a construction project for a FIFA World Cup stadium in Qatar worked for up to seven months without pay, Amnesty International has revealed. Around 100 employees of Qatar Meta Coats (QMC), a design and construction company subcontracted for façade works on the €770m Al Bayt Stadium, are still waiting to be paid …
In statement, the United Nations experts condemned the abduction, torture and sexual abuse of three female oppotion activists – Harare West Member of Parliament Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova – who were seized at a checkpoint by suspected state security agents on May 13th while they were taking part in a Movement for Democratic Change Alliance protest over food shortages in the country under a nationwide coronavirus COVID-19 lockdown
Chau Van Kham, a resident of Australia and member of the banned U.S.-based Viet Tan opposition party, has not been seen or heard from for nearly four months,Australia’s Guardian newspaper said on June 6.
According to Amnesty International, the Special Criminal Court was created by law on 3 June 2015. It is a “hybrid” tribunal that has jurisdiction over grave human rights violations and serious violations of international humanitarian law committed since 2003.
Xiao’s friend and fellow activist Liao Jianhao told RFA that his family were informed that he is under criminal detention when they went to inquire after him at the police station
Prompted by widespread reports of police beatings of protesters, heavy-handed enforcement of safe-distancing measures and other abuses, rights groups and academics are raising the alarm over what they see as a squeeze on basic human rights in Africa’s fragile democracies
No need to search for information on the Burundian presidential election on Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp, social networks have been cut since the opening of polling stations on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. The data collected by NetBlocks and cross-checked by information obtained by RSF undoubtedly report a targeted internet cut-off despite the denial published by Willy Nyamitwe, the ambassador and adviser of the Burundian president Pierre Nkurunziza who had described this interruption as “rumor”.
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