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January 12, 2019

Law against criticising monarchy proposed in Malaysia

The Malaysian government is considering new laws to protect hereditary rulers from criticism.
January 4, 2019

Call for Malaysian government to end detention without trial

The new Government has backtracked on reform agenda.
December 5, 2018

Key officials named in report on Iran's 1988 mass prison killings

‘Death commissions’ in 32 cities sent at least 5,000 prisoners to their deaths in mass purge of dissidents. Amnesty has named Iran’s current minister of justice one of those involved.
February 18, 2018

Legal challenge brought on behalf of 11 men detained indefinitely in Guantánamo Bay

The Trump administration has filed a response to a major legal challenge brought on behalf of 11 men detained indefinitely in Guantánamo Bay without charge or trial.
January 31, 2018

Trump’s Guantánamo Executive Order 'undermines American values'

In his State of the Union speech on 30 January 2018, President Trump announced he had signed a new Executive Order to overturn the US Government’s commitment to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre which has been in place since January 2009.
January 11, 2018

Call for US government to end detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay.

The human rights organisation Reprieve has called for all branches of the US government to uphold fundamental values enshrined in US law by ending the practice of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo Bay. The renewed call comes ahead of the 16th anniversary of Guantánamo’s opening.
October 18, 2017

Guantanamo hunger striker asks US courts to save his life

A hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay has asked the US courts to intervene to halt a new round of abuses at the prison. Ahmed Rabbani is one of just 26 remaining ‘forever prisoners’ who will never be charged or tried, but whom President Trump has vowed never to release.
January 12, 2017

'Final plea' to Obama to close Guantánamo

On the eve of the 15th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at the detention facility at the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International warned that the fate of the remaining detainees must not be left in the hands of the incoming president, Donald Trump.
June 15, 2016

British journalist, 81, denied bail in Bangladesh

An elderly British-Bangladeshi journalist who faces a potential death sentence in Bangladesh has been denied bail, sparking fears for his wellbeing in detention.
January 12, 2016

Guantánamo anniversary 'reminder of need for UK torture inquiry'

On the 14th anniversary (11 January) of the first detainees being taken to the now notorious US military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, Amnesty International repeated its call for the camp’s closure.