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Uzbekistan: Russian authorities complicit in forcibly returning hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants to face torture
Hundreds of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrant workers have been deported and even abducted in forced returns from Russia to Uzbekistan,…
April 20, 2016
Press Release
Uzbekistan: Russian authorities complicit in forcibly returning hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants to face torture
Hundreds of asylum-seekers, refugees and migrant workers have been deported and even abducted in forced returns from Russia to Uzbekistan,…
April 20, 2016
Press Release
Ban on ethnic Crimean Tatar assembly aimed at snuffing out dissent
Today’s decision to suspend the Mejlis, a representative body of ethnic Crimean Tatars in Crimea, demolishes one of the few…
April 13, 2016
Press Release
Russia: Brazen assault on journalists and human rights defenders in North Caucasus illustrates official failures
The violent assault on human rights defenders (HRDs) and journalists in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia is further evidence of…
March 10, 2016
Press Release
Syrian and Russian forces targeting hospitals as a strategy of war
Russian and Syrian government forces appear to have deliberately and systematically targeted hospitals and other medical facilities over the last…
March 2, 2016
Press Release
Russia's Shameful Plan to Deport Syrian Refugees Back to Warzone Violates International Law
Russia is violating international law by trying to deport three Syrian refugees who were detained in Dagestan after seeking asylum…
February 25, 2016
Press Release
Amnesty International’s Annual State of the World Report Slams Governments, Including the U.S., for Global Assault on Freedoms
On the launch of its 2015 State of the World report, Amnesty International USA urged President Obama to use his…
February 22, 2016
Press Release
Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led…
February 18, 2016
Report
Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led…
February 18, 2016
Press Release
Russian and Syrian forces must end deliberate attacks on hospitals
Attacks on at least two medical facilities in Syria today are just the latest of scores of apparently deliberate attacks on…
February 16, 2016
Press Release
Syria: Russia’s shameful failure to acknowledge civilian killings
Russian air strikes in Syria have killed hundreds of civilians and caused massive destruction in residential areas, striking homes, a…
December 22, 2015
Press Release
Russia: Peaceful activist sentenced under repressive new law must be released
Russia’s jailing of a peaceful opposition activist for violating the country’s new law on public assemblies is a shocking and…
December 7, 2015