Prisoner of conscience

Amnesty International meets Egyptian Ambassador to reiterate call for his immediate & unconditional release 

Ibrahim Halawa has been stuck in prison for 1000 days. Join our postcard action calling on President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to relase him immediately.

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Good news on recent urgent action cases: In Honduras, Mexican Human Rights Defender was able to leave Honduras after he witnessed the murder of Berta Cáceres . In Tunisia, six men jailed for “sodomy" were released. Myanmar student activists, Phyoe Phyoe Aung and her husband Lin Htet Naing were released on 11 April.

Four academics who signed an appeal for peace in January 2016 have been charged with “making propaganda for a terrorist organisation”. If convicted they face up to seven and a half years’ imprisonment. 

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Myanmar has released scores of students imprisoned simply for exercising their human rights, including student union leader Phyoe Phyoe Aung and her husband Lin Htet Naing. Amnesty called for their release as part of the 2016 Write for Rights campaign, gaining 394,000 actions worldwide. 

All charges dropped in prisoner amnesty

At a court in the town of Tharrawaddy, the student protesters had all charges against them dropped.

172 medical professionals, including two medical organisations call for Dr 'Ali al-'Ekri's immediate release on the fifth anniversary of his arrest for treating injured protesters and criticisng the excessive force used by the armed forces against them. 

We need your action today, to demand justice; To take a stand. To offer hope, to people around the world, who are silenced for simply speaking their minds.

Your donation today can help us take direct action to help free Bahareh, Iranian women's rights activist, sentenced to 10 years for simply speaking out about the treatment of women in Iran.

Amnesty International considers her to be a prisoner of conscience and calls for her immediate and unconditional release.

Please support our campaign to release her and the many other like him today.

Student activists Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing are facing additional charges for organising peaceful student protests. 

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Amnesty International warns that proposal to move detainees to US would set dangerous precedent

Five years ago, people in Bahrain rose up in protest to demand reform, but were met with violence from security forces.  Doctors, nurses and paramedics were arrested, detained, and tortured for treating injured protesters. Dr ‘Ali al-‘Ekri is still in prison five years on.