Amnesty International

NEW: Read the harrowing testimony of Ahmad Mhanna, former director of Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, who survived 22 months in Israeli detention. Amnesty International will continue to document these systemic abuses, including Israel’s widespread use of torture and other ill-treatment against Palestinian detainees. amnesty.org/en/latest/camp…

Dear outraged EU leaders, Ben Gvir's treatment of Flotilla activists does not happen in a vacuum. It is very much in line with Israel's torture of Palestinians detainees, ongoing genocide in Gaza, unlawful occupation and system of apartheid. x.com/amnesty/status…

Yves Sakila should still be alive today. Restraining him on the ground for almost five minutes is deeply disturbing and yet another deplorable example of unlawful force being used against a Black man. This must stop. Yves has lived in Ireland for decades. Ireland has an obligation to eradicate racism and to protect people's right to life. While investigations take place, hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets in support of Yves’s family and the Congolese community in Ireland. We demand #JusticeForYves.

Today, tomorrow, and every day after that. Black lives matter.

🇳🇴Great news! @amnesty is relieved that Norway rejected Tommy Olsen's extradition to Greece. No one should be criminalized for human rights work. The fight continues! The Greek authorities must end their cynical targeting of people helping migrants and refugees.

Today it was announced that London Mayor @SadiqKhan blocked a £50m Met police deal with Palantir (@PalantirTech). This is great news. Amnesty International have been calling for the UK government to end any contracts with Palantir due to its links to serious human rights violations elsewhere. 1/3 🧵 theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

Last year, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the world’s top court, made it clear: governments have a legal obligation to address the human rights crisis caused by climate change. The United Nations has just adopted a resolution to endorse the ICJ’s findings and commit countries to taking robust climate action. As the world continues to suffer record-breaking temperatures that harm the lives and livelihoods of billions of people, this historic resolution could not be more timely. Governments must stand firm in their commitment to ensure those least responsible for climate change don’t bear the heaviest price while big polluters get away scot-free. This resolution must be a turning point for climate justice and accountability for years to come. The world may seem more fragmented than ever, but this resolution reminds us of how powerful it is when people, including civil society and grassroots movements, come together.

Not in line with Israel’s values and norms? That’s not true. Let´s stick to the facts. While the hundreds of Global Sumud Flotilla activists unlawfully detained by Israel are en route back to their countries, Palestinian prisoners will have to continue to endure unspeakable abuse. Israel has a long history of incarcerating Palestinians without charge or trial. Its systematic use of administrative detention – detaining Palestinians without charge or trial - is a cornerstone of Israel’s system of #apartheid. Torture and other ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners have been a cruel reality for decades and only increased in the last 3 years. Over 9,000 Palestinian men, women, and children are currently held in Israel’s prisons. More than a 1,000 are from Gaza and subjected to enforced disappearance or held incommunicado in military facilities and denied access to lawyers or contact with their families. Amnesty International and other human rights groups have continuously documented a pattern of Israeli authorities inflicting torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment against Palestinians, including through the denial of medicine, food, clothing and sleep, continuous beating, cuffing and blindfolding, dog attacks, rape and other sexual violence, among other abuses. In yet another display of double standards, third states have remained unmoved to the repeated calls to act to bring an end to Israel’s abuses against Palestinians in custody. This must end.

1/4 Today, Khaled El Hishri senior member of notorious militia Deterrence Apparatus for Combating Terrorism and Organized Crime (DACTO), also known as al-Radaa, appears at the ICC in the first case in its 15-year-long Libya investigation to reach a courtroom.

🎂On the 60th birthday of #Uyghur professor Rahile Dawut, we have gathered messages from her friends, colleagues and former students. Rahile was forcibly disappeared in 2017 and is reportedly serving a life sentence in #China. Today we remember the many lives she has touched.

Rising fuel costs in Kenya led to public transport strikes across the country this week. Vehicles associated with Kenya’s Transport Sector Alliance stopped operating in protest to the rising costs, as just last week the country’s Energy and Petroleum Regulatory Authority hiked prices by as much as 23.5%. Halting transport operations left thousands of commuters stranded while violent crackdowns on protests erupted in Nairobi, leaving at least four people dead and dozens injured. Amid chaotic scenes, police in the city fired teargas and arrested dozens of protesters. We stand in solidarity with Kenyans and call on the National Police Service to respect, protect and facilitate the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, association, and expression. The killings at protests must be promptly, independently and effectively investigated.

New: #Sudan: RSF commander ‘Abu Lulu’ must be removed from battlefield immediately amid war crimes allegations 🇸🇩 "It is alarming to learn Abu Lulu has returned to combat without any investigation into the allegations" - @TigereChagutah of @Amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Authoritarian practices have accelerated in Indonesia under President Prabowo Subianto’s government. Coordinated disinformation campaigns portray government critics as “foreign agents” are silencing dissent and fueling intimidation and violence ⬇️ amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

Russia’s drone and missile strikes on Dnipro, Ukraine are the latest in a series of attacks on the country amid Russia's ongoing war of aggression. The strikes, which happened earlier today, injured at least 18 people. Among them were children. The attacks hit civilian buildings and set them alight, causing firefighters to attend the scene. Last week, Russia carried out one of its largest aerial attacks yet on Ukraine, involving over 1,500 long-range drones and missiles. In Kyiv alone, one Russian strike on a residential building killed at least 24 people including children, as rescuers cleared the rubble. Across the city, dozens of civilians were injured and residential buildings were damaged. Earlier that day, other Ukrainian cities, including Rivne and Ivano-Frankivsk, were also under attack, with civilians killed and injured there as well. A UN vehicle carrying aid to Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson was also struck last week, followed by another hit while the delivery was underway. Amnesty International has documented numerous war crimes and other crimes under international law committed by Russian forces since the beginning of its war of aggression against Ukraine. This includes deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure. These are crimes under international law. Russia’s aggression must be stopped, and civilians in Ukraine must be protected.

🚨Once again, #Israel is using military force to stop solidarity activists from delivering aid to the occupied #Gaza Strip, all while continuing to commit #genocide and inflict immense suffering on Palestinian civilians there. 🚨Israel's cruel and shameless determination to crush solidarity efforts with Palestinians is aimed at tightening the grip of its unlawful blockade and isolating #Gaza from the rest of humanity. Cutting off essential supplies to civilians under occupation is a war crime. Silence over attacks on peaceful solidarity activists is indefensible. 🚨Decades of #impunity have fueled Israel’s ongoing atrocity crimes against Palestinians, including genocide, apartheid, and unlawful occupation. 🚨There are grave concerns for the safety of the activists on board. Amnesty International has previously documented the ill-treatment and abuse of activists detained aboard the #GlobalSumudFlotilla on previous missions.

'Tool of control to crush dissent': Amnesty warns of global 'resurgence' in use of death penalty f24.my/BvhM.x

With human rights under threat around the world, millions of people continue to fight against the death penalty each year in a powerful demonstration of our shared humanity. As executing countries become ever more isolated, many countries are choosing to listen. In the Americas however, USA stands alone as the only country in the region to carry out executions: amn.st/6014BBLDLE

Executions in 2025 soared to the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 1981. Iran was the main driver behind the spike, doubling its 2024 figure, a dangerous trend as the authorities used the death penalty to instil fear and punish dissent. Our new report, Death Sentences and Executions 2025, out now: amn.st/6015BBLDxJ

Close to half of the executions recorded in 2025 were the result of the intensification of highly punitive approaches in the “war on drugs”. Drug-related executions in China, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Singapore contributed to these numbers. The death penalty has often been used by states as a show of power, and nowhere is this clearer than in the executions connected to drug offences. However, there are still signs that the tide is changing – in 2025 Viet Nam was one of the countries that took steps away from the death penalty and abolished this cruel punishment for eight offences, including drug transportation.