Amnesty International has again called for an investigation into the public order policing unit and how they respond to protests and volatile situations, following the death of four people in Tembisa who were killed during protests that have rocked the area.
Amnesty International has called on the Nigerian authorities to probe the death of seven young men in the country's restive southeast, where separatist tensions are on the rise.
Two demonstrators were killed and hundreds of others arrested last week in nationwide protests over the comments, which embroiled India in a diplomatic furore and caused widespread outrage in the Islamic world.
The president disbanded parliament in March, adding to concerns that he has put the only country to emerge from the 2011 Arab Spring with a sustained period of democracy back on a path to autocracy
The organisation said that the lack of action taken by the authorities against such groups had resulted in peoples’ basic human rights being violated.
Police Minister Bheki cele released the third quarter crime statistics yesterday, which pointed to an 8.9 percent increase in murder between October and December 2021.
Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid strongly rejected the report as "divorced from reality" and charged that "Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organisations".
The rights watchdog documented fighters on all sides indiscriminately murdering and mutilating civilians and razing entire villages during an upsurge in fighting between June and October in the Western Equatoria region.
Hassan Bouba Ali, a former rebel chief accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity, was arrested then released "a few days later, without any judicial authorisation", Amnesty said in a statement.
Access to quality service delivery - or any service delivery - in South Africa to a large extent still hinges on the colour of your skin and your gender, writes Shenilla Mohamed.
Arman Abdolali had been moved to solitary confinement in the Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj, west of Tehran, in preparation for his execution on Wednesday, and held a final meeting with his parents on Tuesday.
Most people in the rich countries have been inoculated, but parts of Latin America, Africa and Asia have plunged into renewed crises with 'tens of thousands of preventable deaths every week,' Amnesty said.
Amnesty blamed the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) and the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), for causing the 'devastating impact on children' in the region.
Amnesty International said it recorded more than 45 executions in Iraq last year.
A year after the August 4 explosion that killed more than 200 people and levelled entire neighbourhoods of the city, no official has been brought to justice. The blast, considered one of the biggest non-nuclear explosions in history, was caused by hundreds of tonnes of ammonium nitrate stored in a dockside warehouse.
Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories have revealed a massive wave of attacks by cyber-surveillance company, the NSO Group, on smartphones, potentially exposing politicians, journalists and activists all over the world.
Those detained have included activists and journalists, and some have been beaten and transported hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the capital, Amnesty said.
In a report compiled from interviews with 11 black survivors, it charged that even dogs were pulled to safety ahead of black people by a helicopter that airlifted civilians from a hotel where they had sought refuge.
