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  • Americas
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Shoot to Kill: Nicaragua's Strategy to Repress Protest

In response to social protests during April and May 2018, the Nicaraguan government adopted a strategy of violent repression not seen in the country for years. More than 70 people were reportedly killed by the state and hundreds were seriously injured. It is in this context, and with acts of repression continuing to take place in the country at the time of writing, that Amnesty International is publishing this report.

Date:
29 May 2018
Ref:
AMR 43/8470/2018
  • News
  • Ethiopia
  • Refugees

OPED Kenya must protect refugees who fled brutal military attacks in Ethiopia

Ayantu, a 53-year-old mother of seven, had just finished preparing lunch for her children when military personnel surrounded her village. They pulled everyone out of their homes and asked them to reveal members of ‘shiftas’ - the informal name for members of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), an opposition group outlawed in Ethiopia. For residents of Argale, an Oromo village in Ethiopia’s Moyale District, this kind of terrifying harassment had become normal.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • News
  • Americas
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Nicaragua: Amnesty International documents armed attack on students

Students from the National University of Engineering who were defending their campus in Managua, Nicaragua, were attacked with firearms today, confirmed Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas Director at Amnesty International, in a live broadcast from her Facebook account. Erika Guevara-Rosas broadcast two videos of the attacks carried out first by pro-government armed groups known as “turbas sandinistas” (Sandinista mobs) and then by riot police: Violence against students has been increasing since 18 April, when protests against social security reforms began.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • News
  • Middle East and North Africa

Egypt: End Gehad el-Haddad`s solitary confinement and denial of medical care

The continued appalling treatment of Gehad el-Haddad in the notorious al-Aqrab prison is cruel, inhuman and unacceptable, said Amnesty International today, in response to fresh information that prison authorities have confiscated his wheelchair and other belongings and moved him back to solitary confinement after spending a month in Liman Tora prison awaiting medical treatment which he did not receive.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • News

Note of condolence on the tragic loss of Gaëtan Mootoo from Salil Shetty

Dear colleagues, By now you will have seen the news of the tragic and untimely death of Gaëtan Mootoo, our West Africa Researcher, based in our French section in Paris. This came as devastating news for the whole movement, and with great sadness I would like to add a few words myself. So many of us have known or worked closely with Gaëtan over his extraordinary 32 years at Amnesty, and have been enriched by the work and spirit of a true human rights champion.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • News

Tribute to Gaëtan Mootoo by Alex Neve

Across the Amnesty International family, throughout West Africa and everywhere in the global human rights community our hearts are broken and we weep at the sorrowful news that our dear colleague and very special friend, Gaëtan Mootoo has left us so suddenly and tragically, after more than three decades of being at the heart of Amnesty's work throughout Francophone West Africa. Over the span of twelve years, I had the honour and deep good fortune to carry out eight research missions to four different countries with Gaëtan, often in the midst or immediate aftermath of terrible armed conflict and atrocities.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • News

Hommage À Gaëtan Mootoo par Philippe Hensmans

« Comment vas-tu, mon cher Philippe ? ». C’est par ces mots que Gaëtan Mootoo commençait ces nombreuses conversations téléphoniques que nous avons eues tout au long de ces dizaines d’années où j’ai eu l’honneur de travailler avec lui, avant qu’il ne nous quitte brutalement dans cette nuit maudite de vendredi à samedi. D’une classe irréprochable, presque dandy, même au coeur de la brousse, Gaëtan était surtout quelqu’un pour qui l’Humain signifiait quelque chose.

Date:
28 May 2018
  • Campaigns
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Disappearances

China: Further information: Activist trying to seek medical care detained: Xing Wangli

Xing Wangli was taken away by local government personnel in Beijing, where he had travelled to seek medical care and legal assistance for filing a lawsuit against local officials regarding a severe head injury he suffered while imprisoned in 2016. Detained since 27 February 2018, he remains at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

Date:
28 May 2018
Ref:
ASA 17/8490/2018
  • News

Tragic loss of Gaëtan Mootoo, Amnesty International’s West Africa Researcher

The Amnesty International movement is deeply saddened by the tragic and sudden death of our colleague Gaëtan Mootoo, Researcher for West Africa, who had been with the organisation for over 30 years. Salil Shetty, Secretary General of Amnesty International, said:   “The global Amnesty International movement has tragically lost one of its most dedicated and passionate human rights experts. For over 30 years, Gaëtan documented human rights abuses in West Africa and worked tirelessly to bring justice to victims and affected communities.

Date:
27 May 2018
  • News
  • Pakistan
  • Justice Systems

Pakistan: Historic rights advances for tribal areas and transgender people

Pakistan has secured historic advances for the rights of people in the tribal areas along the Afghan border with the passage of a new constitutional amendment that breaks with disgraceful laws rooted in the colonial era, Amnesty International said today. The passage of the constitutional amendment marks the second time this month that the Pakistani parliament has united across deep political divides on key human rights issues, coming on the heels of the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • News
  • Americas
  • Detention

Brazil: Government must not deploy Armed Forces to halt national strike

Brazil’s federal government must halt its deployment of the military to clear highways blocked by striking truck drivers, Amnesty International said today. The order, announced on Friday afternoon, represented the first time that the Brazilian government has authorized the Armed Forces to enforce the law and halt civic disruption at national level since the end of the military regime in 1985. “The role of the armed forces is not to break up protests, assemblies or strikes.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • Article
  • Middle East and North Africa

Tunisia: Amnesty welcomes government’s commitment to enable Truth Commission’s mandate until the end of its work

Reacting to a joint statement by the Truth and Dignity Commission and the Ministry of Relations with Constitutional Bodies, Civil Society and Human Rights  published on 24 May, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Regional Director, Heba Morayef, said: “Amnesty International welcomes the Tunisian government’s commitment to transitional justice by giving the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD) the necessary time to bring perpetrators to justice and finalize its work diligently after concerns of cutting the work of the IVD short were raised by a recent vote in the parliament and communications from the Prime Minister this week.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • Article
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Human Rights Defenders and Activists

The driving ban and women’s rights in Saudi Arabia

Women and girls face entrenched discrimination in law and practice in Saudi Arabia. The ban on driving is only one example of the many areas of life where women in Saudi Arabia have their human rights denied. Women are still unable to travel, engage in paid work or higher education, or marry without the permission of a male guardian. Driving ban and the Women2Drive movement Women in Saudi Arabia have publicly campaigned to lift the ban on them driving since 1990, when around 40 women drove their cars down a main street in Riyadh, the capital.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • News
  • Algeria
  • Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Algeria: Blogger sentenced to 10 years for online posts

Responding to the news that blogger Merzoug Touati was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 50,000 Algerian dinar (approximately USD $430) for online posts, Heba Morayef, Middle East and North Africa Regional Director at Amnesty International, said: “It is utterly shocking that the Algerian authorities have imposed such a heavy sentence on someone solely for expressing his peaceful opinion online.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • News
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Women's Rights

Saudi Arabia: Another activist arrested as crackdown continues

Responding to the arrest of prominent human rights defender Mohammed al-Bajadi in Saudi Arabia today, Samah Hadid, Amnesty International’s Middle East Director of Campaigns, said: “This new arrest is yet another ominous development in the relentless crackdown on human rights activists in Saudi Arabia. “Mohammed al-Bajadi is a tireless campaigner for human rights who, along with all those detained in the recent crackdown, has only been targeted because of his important work.

Date:
25 May 2018
  • News
  • Asia and The Pacific
  • Terrorism

Indonesia: Newly amended anti-terror law threatens to undermine human rights

Reacting to the decision of the House of Representatives on Friday to pass into law the revision of the anti-terrorism bill, Amnesty International Indonesia executive director Usman Hamid said: “The newly-passed law contains a number of draconian articles that threaten to undermine human rights in Indonesia. The law erodes safeguards against arbitrary detention and against torture and other ill-treatment, as well as expanding the scope of the application of the death penalty.

Date:
25 May 2018