Alexei Navalny and Mulberry Street
By Gwynne Dyer By now Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will have reached Correctional Facility No 2 (IK-2), where he will be spending the next...
Amnesty International
Amnesty raises concerns over deregistration of migrant support group
Amnesty International expressed concern on Wednesday over new rules passed by the government that could see anti-racism and migrant support organisation Kisa shut down. “As...
Amnesty: Cyprus police violence must be investigated and blanket ban on protests lifted
Amnesty International on Wednesday called on Cypriot authorities to lift the “unlawful and disproportionate” blanket ban on demonstrations while also criticising the police for using unnecessary...
Man, wrongly convicted in Hungary, reunited with family in Cyprus
Authorities in Cyprus have finally allowed Ahmed H, a Syrian man wrongly convicted in Hungary in a blatant misuse of terrorism-related charges, to return to...
Amnesty: Cyprus is the last hope for Syrian family man jailed in Hungary
THE Cyprus government offers the last hope for a Syrian man to return to his family in Cyprus, according to Amnesty International as they launched a...
Cyprus has high reporting rate but low convictions for rape
By Lizzy Ioannidou CYPRUS is among just six out of the 33 countries that have ratified the Council of Europe’s convention on preventing and combating...
For women in Greek migrant camps, even showers are unsafe – Amnesty
By Karolina Tagaris Women in Greek migrant camps are too scared to leave their tents at night or use communal showers, and many pregnant women...
Turkish court releases local chair of Amnesty International
A Turkish court on Wednesday ordered the conditional release of the jailed chairman of Amnesty International in Turkey, the rights group said, although the trial...
‘I have no idea why we’re here,’ Turkish activist tells trial
A Turkish human rights activist denied terrorism charges on Wednesday, declaring “I have no idea why we’re here”, at a trial of 11 activists that...
Turkish prosecutor seeks 15-year jail sentence for rights activists
A Turkish prosecutor has called for jail sentences of up to 15 years on terrorism charges for a group of rights activists including the local...
Germany targets Turkish tourism as rights row escalates (Update 2)
Germany warned its citizens to exercise caution if travelling to Turkey and threatened measures that could hinder German investment there in a sign of growing impatience...
Gulf states announce humanitarian hotline for mixed Qatari families
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates announced hotlines to help families with Qatari members, their official news agencies reported, after their cutting of...
Amnesty International evicted from its Moscow office
Amnesty International, a campaign group which has accused the Kremlin of violating human rights with its bombing campaign in Syria, was evicted from its Moscow...
Executions hit highest level in 25 years in 2015 – Amnesty
There were more executions worldwide in 2015 than in any year since 1990 and almost 90 per cent occurred in three countries – Iran, Saudi...
Amnesty says Turkey illegally sending Syrians back to war zone
By Dasha Afanasieva and Tulay Karadeniz Turkey has illegally returned thousands of Syrians to their war-torn homeland in recent months, highlighting dangers for migrants sent...
Amnesty: Kurds waging campaign to uproot Arabs in north Iraq
Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute a war crime, human rights...
Russian bombing of Syria may be a war crime
Russia’s bombing of Syria may amount to a war crime because of the number of civilians its strikes have killed, Amnesty International said on Wednesday,...
Dutch police fire warning shots during unrest over arrest death
Dutch police fired warning shots and water cannon in efforts to quell hundreds of protesters, arresting 34, during a third successive day of unrest on...
Fresh fighting erupts in east Ukraine, three Ukrainian soldiers killed
By Richard Balmforth Three Ukrainian servicemen have been killed and 12 wounded in the latest clashes between government forces and Russian-backed separatists, further eroding a...
MPs visit Menoyia, slam policy towards migrant mothers
By Stefanos Evripidou THE HOUSE Human Rights Committee yesterday slammed the government’s policy of separating migrant mothers from their children for the purposes of detaining...