Reuters - Iran has temporarily released British resident Aras Amiri on furlough, Amnesty International United Kingdom board director Daren Nair tweeted on Thursday. British resident and Londoner, Aras Amiri who has been unjustly imprisoned in #Irans Evin Prison since 2018 with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been temporarily released on furlough, ...

IRNA The execution of 37 people marks an alarming escalation in Saudi Arabias use of the death penalty 'to crush dissent from within the countrys Shia minority', said Amnesty International on Wednesday. Among those put to death was a young man who was convicted of a crime that took place while he was under the age of 18, Amnesty International said ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has blasted Bahrain for upholding a life sentence against prominent Shia cleric and opposition figure Sheikh Ali Salman, describing the verdict as another blow to the freedom of expression in the country. The Court of Cassation in Bahrain on Monday confirmed life imprisonment sentences against the 53-year-old Sheikh ...

IRNA The Amnesty International campaign manager in Turkey called for international probe into murdering the Saudi prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The murder of Khashoggi, which happened before the eyes of the whole world, should also be the subject of an international investigation, the Turkish media Anadolu Agency quoted Goksu Ozahishali ...

MNA The Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baedinejad said 56% of the worlds 21 million refugees are being hosted by just 10 countries, including Jordan and Iran. According to the Amnesty International, 56 percent of the world's 21 million refugees are being hosted by just 10 countries- all in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia, wrote Iranian ...

The Guardian - Prominent lawyer was granted conditional release after serving more than seven years Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been released from prison after spending more than seven years behind bars, the official IRNA news agency reported. The authorities agreed yesterday to my clients conditional parole ...

Press TV- Amnesty international has launched an online campaign in solidarity with prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab, who has been behind bars over his criticism of the ruling Al Khalifah family, urging Manama to immediatelyand unconditionally release him. Through its online campaign, the London-based non-governmental organization ...

Press TV- Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Security Council to spare no efforts to end the brutal crackdown against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, suggesting the imposition of a comprehensive arms embargo on the Southeast Asian country. The London-based rights group made the plea on Wednesday, a day before the Council is ...

Press TV- Amnesty International says Myanmars military and vigilante Buddhist mobs continue to set fire to Rohingya Muslim villages in Rakhine State, contradicting claims by de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi that army operations have ended there. In a report on Friday, Amnesty said newly-captured satellite images and videos from the troubled ...

Press TV- Israel plans to impose financial sanctions on Amnesty International over the human rights groups call for the boycott of products made in Israeli settlements. Israel Hayom newspaper said in a reporton Tuesday that the Israeli Finance Ministry was poised to impose the sanctions on Amnesty Internationals Israel branch for upholding the ...

Press TV- Amnesty International slams Ankara for keeping six rights activists, including the director of its Turkey branch, in pre-trial custody on terror-related charges, saying the move shows truth and justice have become total strangers in the country. Idil Eser, Amnesty International Turkeys director, was among thegroup of human rights activists ...

Press TV- A senior Iraqi military official has rejected as baseless an Amnesty International report accusing government forces of human rights violations during the months-long battle to liberate Mosul from Daesh terrorists. The Amnesty released a report on Tuesday, saying, Iraqi government and US-led coalition forces appear to have committed ...

Press TV- Amnesty International has criticized the punitive measures taken by Saudi Arabia and a number of its allies against Qatar, saying the restrictions violate the human rights of the Qatari people. The Amnestys Secretary General Salil Shetty made the remarks while meeting with Ali Bin Smaikh Al Marri, the chairman of the National Human ...

Press TV- Amnesty International has mildly criticized a recent US strike on a Syrian airbase, noting that a "knee-jerk reaction" is no substitute for a proper investigation into chemical attacks. "It's one thing to have some air strikes by the US on a one-off basis, but it's not going to address this problem,"said Amnestys Secretary GeneralSalil ...

Tehran, Nov 1, IRNA The Amnesty International, in a statement on Monday, urged armed opposition groups in Syria to stop the fierce offensive on the western city of Aleppo, describing the indiscriminate attacks mainly targeting civilian areas as unlawful. A report by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights suggests that at least 48 people, including ...

Amnesty International says the US-led coalition has killed hundreds of civilians during its air raids in Syria since 2014, calling for an investigation into potential violations of international law during the so-called campaign against terror. Its high time the US authorities came clean about the full extent of the civilian damage caused by ...

Amnesty International has called on the Bahraini regime to suspend its heavy-handed crackdown on peaceful critics and opposition figures as Manama keeps up its policy of repression. The Bahraini authorities should halt immediately their heightened crackdown on peaceful critics and opponents, said the UK-based rights group said in a statement ...

Alwaght- Inmates apprehended after failed military coup in Turkey have been subjected to torture and sexual harassment, Amnesty International reported. The human rights organization released a report on Sunday, claiming that it had received reports that Turkish police had held detainees in "stress positions" for up to 48 hours in the capital ...

6% of death row inmates globally are in U.S. prisons according to Amnesty International The number of capital punishment executions carried out globally surged in 2015 to the highest in 25 years, according to a new report published by UK-based human rights group Amnesty International. Executions worldwide rose by 54% from the previous year, to ...

Amnesty International has called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its gross human rights violations. In a Tuesday statementdelivered duringthe 31st meeting of the council, the London-based rights group said Saudi Arabia cannot be a UNHRCmember statesince it has failed to uphold the highest ...