London: New Human rights group Amnesty International has condemned the flogging of Muslim men by Indian police in the state of Gujarat and called it a "serious human rights violation” showing “utter disrespect towards the law”. “We remind the Gujarat Police that punishment is never a
New York: Amnesty International’s ongoing investigations into the crackdown on popular protests in Iran have revealed widespread patterns of unlawful use of force and ruthless violence by security forces. These include use of live ammunitions, birdshot and other metal pellets, heavy beatings of protesters and
Paris: Iran and Turkiye are preventing entry of Afghan refugees or forcibly returning them to face life-threatening risks under the Taliban regime, in violation of international law, Amnesty International said in a report. Hundreds of thousands fled Afghanistan in August 2021 after the US left the
London: World rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI), has said that Narendra Modi-led Indian government intensified the repression of human rights in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the last three years since it revoked the special status of the territory on August 05, 2019. The
Paris: Iran this week amputated the fingers of a man convicted of theft using a guillotine machine, Amnesty International said, decrying an "unspeakably cruel punishment". Pouya Torabi, in his late thirties, was transferred on an emergency basis to hospital immediately after his fingers were cut off
Kabul: The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by a “suffocating” crackdown by the Taliban since they took power nearly a year ago, Amnesty International said in a report released Wednesday. After they captured the capital, Kabul, in August 2021 and ousted the
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has saod said that it has filed a prosecution complaint against human rights organisations Amnesty International India, Indians for Amnesty International Trust and others under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The agency accused the organisations of laundering Rs 51.72