Iran: Juvenile offender to be executed in a week gives harrowing torture account
Saman Naseem, 22, is scheduled to be executed on 19 February in Iran.© Private. Amnesty International – A young Iranian…
Nigeria: Satellite images show horrific scale of Boko Haram attack on Baga
Satellite image showing the extent of damage in Doron Baga taken on 7 Jan 2015, following an attack by…
Flogging of Raif Badawi in Saudi Arabia ‘vicious act of cruelty’
Raif Badawi Amnesty International – A witness confirmed to Amnesty International that the flogging of Saudi Arabian activist Raif Badawi…
Iraq: Yezidi women and girls face harrowing sexual violence
A girl in Khakhe camp who was a victim of abuse by the armed group calling itself Islamic State.© Amnesty…
Pakistan: Sickening Taliban school attack highlights vulnerability of civilians
The vast majority of those killed in the attack were school children.© AFP/Getty Images Amnesty International – Today’s Taliban…
Iran: Halt execution of woman set to be hanged at dawn
Amnesty International – The Iranian authorities must stop the execution of a woman due to be hanged tomorrow morning after…
Iraq: Evidence of war crimes by government-backed Shi’a militias
London, (Amnesty International) – Shi’a militias, supported and armed by the government of Iraq, have abducted and killed…
Financing death: Iran’s ‘War on Drugs’
By Mosa Zahed LONDON, 23 Jan. (UPI) — Last year I wrote an op-ed on Iran’s bloody “war on drugs,” which…