Responding to the deaths of at least six people and the injury of 11 others, including children, following bomb blasts in schools in predominantly Hazara Shiite communities in Kabul today, Samira Hamidi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, said:

Responding to the news that Russian authorities have detained an editor-in-chief and a founder of local newspaper from the Russian Republics of Altay and Khakassia after they published content critical of the war in Ukraine, Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said:

Amnesty International has received credible information that Buheliqiemu Abula and her teenage daughter, 13, were made to take tests for Covid-19 today in preparations for their deportation to China. The police told them that they should be prepared to leave the deportation center at 9 pm local time today to board a flight bound for Guangzhou, China.