Press TV - Some 130 Palestinian protesters, including 25 children, have been injuredby Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests at the Gaza border,according to the Gaza Health Ministry, amid Amnesty International's condemnation of Israel's newly proclaimed "zero tolerance"towards protesters. Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra announced ...

Press TV - Amnesty Internationals new Secretary General Kumi Naidoo says he has been shocked by the horrific destruction and utter human devastation left by the US-led campaign in Syrias northern city of Raqqah. What I saw in Raqqah shocked me to my core. The city is a shell,bombed-out buildings, very little running water or electricity, the ...

Press TV - Amnesty international says that the US-led coalition's admission to killing scores of civilians during its operations is just the tip of the iceberg. On Tuesday, Amnesty noted that its research prompted the US-led military coalition to admit to killing dozens of civilians in its offensive against Daesh in Raqqah in Syria. It further ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has expressed concern over unfair trials for civilians at military courts in Bahrain and called on King Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifah to order the retrial of four men who have recently been sentenced to life imprisonment. In a report released on Wednesday, the UK-based rights group pointed to the death sentences ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has called on the global community to pressure Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into releasing Palestinian teen activistAhed Tamimi. "There is nothing Ahed Tamimi has done that can justify the continuing detention of a 16-year-old child. She is one of approximately 350 Palestinian children held in Israeli ...

Press TV- Amnesty International has strongly denounced the first admission by Myanmar's military that its soldiers executed Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state, saying it is just the "tip of the iceberg". James Gomez, Amnestys regional director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said on Thursday that "this grisly admission is a sharp departure ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has blasted the United Nations (UN) for attempting to downplay the crimes of the Saudi-led coalition against Yemeni children in a deadly war on the impoverished Yemen. On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres submitted an annual report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) to the Security Council. The ...

Press TV - Amnesty International and Bangladeshi officials have slammed Myanmars military for using landmines against the Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence at home, causing many of the refugees to sustain seriousinjures or lose their body organs. The United Nations says 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh since the Myanmar ...

Press TV - Amnesty international has censured Bahrain for using an array of repression tools, including torture and sexual abuse, in its brutal crackdown on dissent, blaming the silence of the Western states, especially the US and the UK, for a sharp rise in Manamas use of violence. In a report, titled No one can protect you: Bahrains year of ...

Press TV - Amnesty International and other rights groups have expressed concern over Bahrains conduct in the case of a dissident who has been detained for over nine months without being charged or put ontrial. In a joint letter to Bahraini officials published on Amnestys website on Wednesday, the rights groups demanded information on the situation ...

Press TV- Human rights group Amnesty International has called on Saudi Arabia to halt the executions of 14 individuals who were sentenced to death following a grossly unfair mass trial as part of the kingdoms bloody execution spree. By confirming these sentences Saudi Arabias authorities have displayed their ruthless commitment to the use of ...

Press TV - Saudi Arabia is using the death penalty as a means to silence Shia dissent, says Amnesty International. These brutal executions are the latest act in the Saudi Arabian authorities ongoing persecution of the Shia minority. The death penalty is being deployed as a political weapon to punish them for daring to protest against their treatment ...

Press TV- Amnesty Internationalhas expressed concern about the Bahraini regimes maltreatment of a female activist who has been critical ofManamas crackdown on dissent. On Tuesday, Arabic-language news website Bahrain Mirror cited the director of campaigns at Amnestys regional office in Beirut, Samah Hadid, as expressing alarm at the abuse committed ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has expressed its deep concernover thousands of ordinary people whose lives have been played with amid escalating tensions triggered by Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies against Qatar. "Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are toying with the lives of thousands of [Persian] Gulf residents as part ...

Sputnik - Thousands of ordinary families have fallen victims to an ongoing spat between a group of Gulf states and Qatar, the human rights group Amnesty International charged in a press release on Friday. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are toying withthe lives ofthousands ofPersian Gulf residents ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has called on Bahrain to put an end to torturinggovernment critics and all other forms of human rights violations aftera report revealed sexual abuse of a female activist during interrogation. Amnesty made the call in a Thursday report, after Bahraini human rights activist Ebtisam al-Saegh told the rights group ...

Press TV - Amnesty International reports that Manama has referred its first civilian case to military court for trial in accordance with a constitutional reform amendment approved by the king. According to a statement released by the rights group on Tuesday, Fadhel Radhi was transferred to military court after being detained and held in incommunicado ...

Press TV - Amnesty International has launched a public campaign, which calls on the Bahraini regime to immediately and unconditionally release prominent Shia opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman. The campaigns statement, posted on Amnestys website on Thursday, said the Manama regime must be pressured to rescind the conviction of Sheikh Salman,...

Press TV - A leading human rights group has called on the United States not to approve pending weapons sales to Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, warning that such sales could implicate Washington in war crimes. In a letter to US President Donald Trump, Amnesty International said the arms sales would only serve to further arm the Saudi-led coalition ...

Press TV- Amnesty International has warned that Bahrain is on the verge of a human rights catastrophe amid a pattern of increased violence against demonstrators, executions, and detentions. The rights group gave the warning on Tuesday as nationwide protests were underway in Bahrain to mark the sixth anniversary of the 2011 popular uprising. Bahrain ...