Amnesty International

The ‘crucifixion’ of 5 beheaded bodies following their execution in Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf kingdom ruled by an absolute monarchy and key United States ally, is planning to behead 14 men for participating in anti-government protests after what Amnesty International called a “grossly unfair mass trial.”
“By confirming these sentences Saudi Arabia’s authorities have displayed their ruthless commitment to the use of the death penalty as a weapon to crush dissent and neutralize political opponents,” Samah Hadid of Amnesty International said.

An Israeli soldier participates in a raid on the Makassed Hospital. (Photo: Makassed Hospital)
Israeli soldiers and police have stormed a Palestinian hospital twice over the past week, terrifying staff and patients preventing doctors from providing emergency medical care to critically injured Palestinians who had already been subjected to Israeli violence, a leading rights group has said.

A volunteer carries the bodies of civilians killed in a US air strike in Mosul, Iraq on March 24, 2017. (AP/Felipe Dana)

(ANTIWAR.COM) A new report from human rights group Amnesty International is harshly critical of the tactics used by Iraq forces and their allies (i.e. the US) in the invasion and occupation of the ISIS-held city of Mosul, saying they flagrantly violated international law and might amount to war crimes.

A volunteer carries the bodies of civilians killed in a US air strike in Mosul, Iraq on March 24, 2017. (AP/Felipe Dana)
A new report from human rights group Amnesty International today is harshly critical of the tactics used by Iraq forces and their allies (i.e. the US) in the invasion and occupation of the ISIS-held city of Mosul, saying they flagrantly violated international law and might amount to war crimes.

Amnesty International says Idil Eser, its head in Turkey, has been arrested as part of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s post-coup crackdown. (Photo: Amnesty)
Turkish police rounded up eight leading human rights campaigners, including the head of rights group Amnesty International in Turkey, Idil Eser, at a meeting on an island near Istanbul, media said on Thursday.
They had gathered at a hotel on Buyukada Island, just south of Turkey’s largest city, when they were taken to a police station on Wednesday, the Hurriyet newspaper said. It was not clear why they were held.

Migrants and refugees call out to Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms workers, after being located out of control sailing on a rubber boat in the Mediterranean Sea, about 18 miles north of Sabratha, Libya on, June 15, 2017. (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

Source : Amnesty International, 24-05-2017
L’armée américaine a perdu la trace de plus d’un milliard de dollars d’armes et d’autres équipements militaires en Irak et au Koweït, selon un audit du Département de la Défense (DoD) maintenant déclassifié, obtenu par Amnesty International suite à une demande d’accès au nom de la liberté d’information.

The Har Homa neighborhood, an illegal Israeli settlement in occupied east Jerusalem. (AP/Dan Balilty)
Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the UK to ban all imports of goods produced in illegal Israeli settlements to help end multimillion-pound profits which have fuelled mass human rights violations.

Loujain Alhathloul is a Saudi women’s rights activist and a social media figure. She was ranked 3rd in the list of Top 100 Most Powerful Arab Women in 2015.
A Saudi women’s rights activist was detained by authorities at an airport in the kingdom’s Dammam, rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested for a second time on Sunday for her work in challenging Saudi’s strict laws on women, Amnesty said.