Prominent Uyghur academic, Tashpolat Tiyip, is facing execution in China unless the authorities stop this from going ahead. The Chinese Government has chosen to secretly detain and sentence to death Tashpolat Tiyip for reasons that remain unknown to his family, friends and the outside world. Tashpolat was the President of the Xinjiang University when he […]
Prominent Uyghur academic, Tashpolat Tiyip, is facing execution in China unless the authorities stop this from going ahead. The Chinese Government has chosen to secretly detain and sentence to death Tashpolat Tiyip for reasons that remain unknown to his family, friends and the outside world. Tashpolat was the President of the Xinjiang University when he […]
Marinel and her community in the Philippines are still waiting for liveable housing, five years since Cyclone Yolanda ripped their village apart.
Join Amnesty’s Women’s Rights Defenders Network at the St Kilda Esplanade Markets. The Network will have a stall on the day where you can learn more about Amnesty’s work and take meaningful action for women’s rights around the world!
Responding to media reports that two British-Australian women and an Australian man have been detained in Iran, with one of the women said to have been sentenced to ten years in jail, Eilidh Macpherson, Amnesty International UK’s Individuals at Risk Campaigns Manager, said: “The pattern of arresting foreign nationals in Iran is becoming increasingly alarming. […]
Join Amnesty’s Lismore Group and protest in solidarity outside the federal member Kevin Hogan’s office. Bring along some signs and alert the passing traffic to the plight of refugees in offshore detention.
For more than a month, the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been living in a communications blackout enacted by the Indian government. On 5 August the Government of India stripped the Kashmir region of its special autonomy and shut down all phone and internet access. The government now has near-total control over the information coming […]
Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Kumi Naidoo, has written a personal plea to more than 30,000 schools around the world today urging them to allow children to take part in the unprecedented wave of global climate strikes planned for 20 and 27 September. In a letter sent to school-heads and school-boards by Amnesty International’s national offices […]
