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Agather Atuhaire, wearing a smile and a colorful printed shirt, poses for a portrait against a black background. Boniface Mwangi, also smiling, poses in a blue jacket and black shirt against a white background. — (private)

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Tanzania: Torture and Forcible Deportation of Kenyan and Ugandan Activists Must be Urgently Investigated

Tanzanian authorities must investigate the arbitrary arrest, torture, detention, and deportation of human rights defenders Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi.

May 27, 2025

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Saudi Arabia: Migrant Domestic Workers Face Severe Exploitation, Racism and Exclusion from Labor Protections

These women travelled to Saudi Arabia in search of work to support their families but instead endured unspeakable abuse in…

May 13, 2025

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Kenya: Meta Can be Sued in Kenya for Role in Ethiopia Conflict

A High Court in Kenya ruled that it has jurisdiction to hear and consider the merits of a case in…

April 3, 2025

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Child Protection Urged as the Multinational Security Support Mission Deploys to Haiti

It is truly concerning that the deployment of the Kenyan police contingent to Haiti is going forward, without transparent information…

July 2, 2024

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Amnesty International USA Reaction to the Biden Administration’s Response to Protests in Kenya

The United States has an imperative make use of its close relationship with President Ruto and demand that he and…

June 26, 2024

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Governments and Police Must Stop Using COVID-19 Pandemic as Pretext for Abuse

Abusive policing and excessive reliance on law enforcement to implement COVID-19 response measures have violated human rights and in some instances…

December 16, 2020

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Generation Z Ranks Climate Change Highest as Vital Issue of our Time in Amnesty International Survey

Climate change leads as one of the most important issues facing the world, according to a major new survey of…

December 9, 2019

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Amnesty Statement on the attack of Dusit D2 Hotel and Office Complex, Nairobi

Amnesty International Kenya joins other Kenyans and persons of good will around the world in expressing shock and outrage at…

January 16, 2019

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Amnesty and Sofar Sounds partner for Write for Rights concert and letter writing event

On Saturday, December 8, human rights organization Amnesty International USA in partnership with live music events startup Sofar Sounds will…

November 30, 2018

Nawal Benaissa, 36 yeards-old, is a mother of 4 who joined Hirak early on and became one of its main female leading voices. She took part to several protests with her husband and children and has been very active on social media. Her Facebook profile gained more than 80 000 followers, before authorities asked her to shut down during one of her detention in custody. She was arrested and held in custody for few hours four times between June and September 2017. This last time she was sued and on mid-February 2018, she was sentenced to 10 months suspended sentence and a fine of 500 hundred dirhams for inciting to commit an offence (by speech, cries or threats made in the places where public meetings, either through posters exposed to the public or by any means fulfilling the condition, advertising, including electronically, on paper and by audio-visual channel, if the provocation has not been followed by effect. Article 299 of the penal code). Her lawyer has appealed the sentence, the Court of Appeal has yet to rule. Benaissa responded to the court's decision on her Facebook page by expressing her continued support for the Rif protests. "I am proud to take part in the protests in the region and I denounce the imprisonment of Hirak activists. I demand their immediate release," she wrote. Few weeks ago, she moved from the northern city of Al Hoceima to another Moroccan city in order to flee harassment from authorities.

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Amnesty International launches world’s biggest human rights campaign

Women human rights defenders around the world are facing unprecedented levels of abuse, intimidation and violence, said Amnesty International as…

November 28, 2018

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Amnesty International staff targeted with malicious spyware

An Amnesty International staff member has been targeted by a sophisticated surveillance campaign, in what the organization suspects was a…

August 1, 2018

The Kenyan authorities are forcibly evicting the Sengwer Indigenous people from Embobut forest, in the Western Highlands of Kenya, to make way for a conservation project. The Sengwer say they have lived in Embobut forest for centuries. They are defending their human rights, and their demands are clear: the government must recognize their land rights and work with them to protect the forest.

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Kenya: Sengwer evictions from Embobut Forest flawed and illegal

The Sengwer Indigenous people of Embobut Forest, Kenya are being forced from their homes and dispossessed of their ancestral lands…

May 14, 2018