Report
Pakistan: Campaign of hacking, spyware and surveillance targets human rights defenders
Human rights defenders in Pakistan are under threat from a targeted campaign of digital attacks, which has seen social media…
May 15, 2018
Report
Trump threat puts European role in lethal US drone strikes under new scrutiny
As the Trump administration prepares to further expand the US’s lethal drone program, increasing the risk of civilian casualties and…
April 18, 2018
Press Release
Village council ‘revenge’ rape order must prompt urgent reforms in Pakistan
The rape of a teenage girl ordered by a village council in ‘revenge’ for a rape allegedly committed by her…
July 27, 2017
Press Release
Pakistan: Quash conviction and death sentence for alleged blasphemy in Facebook post
Responding to an Anti-Terrorism court’s decision to convict and sentence to death a man for allegedly posting content on Facebook…
June 12, 2017
Report
As good as dead: The impact of the blasphemy laws in Pakistan
Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are often used against religious minorities and others who are the target of false accusations, while emboldening vigilantes prepared to threaten or kill the…
December 20, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: Deportation of iconic National Geographic Afghan girl is a grave injustice
Reaction to Pakistan's decision to deport Sharbat Gula, the iconic 'Afghan girl' whose striking portrait adorned a 1985 cover of…
November 4, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: End the crackdown on opposition protests
Pakistan’s authorities must immediately and unconditionally release hundreds of opposition activists, lift restrictions on their movement and take all appropriate…
October 31, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: Drop travel ban on Dawn journalist
Pakistan’s authorities must immediately revoke a travel ban on a leading journalist and allow the media to operate freely and…
October 11, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: Stop execution of death row prisoner with mental disability
Pakistan’s authorities must not execute Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a history of mental illness, Amnesty International said…
September 26, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: Where is Zeenat Shahzadi?
As the International Day of the Disappeared is marked around the world, Pakistan’s authorities must promptly, thoroughly and effectively investigate…
August 29, 2016
Press Release
Attack on Quetta hospital in Pakistan an abhorrent disregard for the sanctity of life
An apparently pre-planned suicide attack, which killed at least 63 people and wounded more than 50 others in a hospital…
August 8, 2016
Press Release
Pakistan: End impunity for so-called ‘honor’ crimes
The Pakistani authorities must end impunity for so-called ‘honor’ killings and other violence against women, Amnesty International said today. “The…
July 19, 2016