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Turkey's EU Affairs Minister in Brussels amid pressure over human rights

Amnesty International call on the EU to condemn Turkey's arrest of their local director in Istanbul.

Turkey

Turkish court rules human rights activists must remain in jail

The group has been detained pending trial for membership of a terrorist organisation

Iraq

Displaced Iraqis mull returning home to Mosul

Displaced Iraqis mull returning home to Mosul

Turkey

Turkey detains rights activists including local Amnesty chief

Turkish police have detained 10 people including the local director of Amnesty International, in a raid the NGO called a "grotesque abuse of power". No reason was given for the arrests.

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World News

Amnesty International slams EU migrant policy

This year is on its way to becoming the most deadly for migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.

Papua New Guinea

Australia pays millions in compensation to refugees

Campaigners have hailed the payout to detainees at Manus Island as a victory for human rights

Turkey

Amnesty chairman detained in Turkey

Bahrain

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World News

"Detention centres" for LGBT citizens reported in Chechnya

According to the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, Chechen authorities have set up a series of camps or prisons where gay men have been killed or tortured before being made to leave the…

World News

Amnesty International: 2016 was a year of hate, violence and oppression

Amnesty International has documented 2016 as a year of hate, violence and oppression, a year of palpable contempt for the suffering of fellow humans.

World

'A darker more unstable world' says Amnesty International

Euronews journalist Mark Davis spoke to David Griffiths from Amnesty International:“In its Annual Report on the state of Human Rights worldwide, Amnesty International has singled out for criticism a l

World News

Poisonous political rhetoric is a danger to the world warns Amnesty International

The rise in poisonous political rhetoric is threatening to roll back human rights and creating a more dangerous world, Amnesty International has warned.

Philippines

Human rights groups slam Philippine's war on drugs

Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International call for investigations into the extrajudicial police killings of President Duterte's war on drugs

Belgium

Muslims suffer because of Europe's terror laws - Amnesty

The campaign group is sounding the alarm over "dangerously disproportionate" security measures adopted in 14 EU nations over the past two years.

Myanmar

Rohingya Muslims 'squeezed by callous actions' of Myanmar and Bangladesh - Amnesty International

Amnesty International says Rohingya Muslims are being “squeezed by the callous actions of both the Myanmar and Bangladesh authorities.

Russia

Amnesty International condemns Russia's 'draconian' foreign agents law

Amnesty International in Russia has strongly condemned what it calls a ‘draconian’ foreign agents law, ahead of the fourth anniversary of it coming into effect.

Italy

Amnesty blames Italy and EU for police abuse of migrants

The human rights group says migrants have been subjected to 'appalling' ill-treatment by Italian police because of the EU's refugees policy.

Russia

Amnesty shocked to find it's been locked out of Moscow office

The Moscow city council, which owns the building, claims the group is behind in its rent. But Amnesty claims it is all paid up

World News

Torture and executions - Amnesty International warns of revenge attacks in Iraq

Shia paramilitary groups and Iraqi government forces have carried out revenge attacks on Sunni Arabs suspected of supporting ISIL, that’s according to Amnesty…

Hungary

How Hungary is out of touch over granting asylum to war-fleeing Syrians

Hungary rejects the overwhelming majority of asylum requests from war-fleeing Syrians, new figures show, putting them out-of-touch with their EU counterparts.