Group included three UNHCR document holders and 17 minors who had at least one parent still in Malaysia
‘The options for people and their families were between indefinite detention or returning to an extremely volatile situation amid a coup’ - Katrina Jorene Maliamauv
Responding to reports that a group of Rohingya refugees and at least three Bangladeshi nationals are stranded on a boat in the Andaman Sea and are in urgent need of rescue and disembarkation, Saad Hammadi, Amnesty International’s South Asia Campaigner, said:
An Auckland judge has laid down a thundering assessment of Corrections’ treatment of a prisoner at Auckland Region Women’s Prison. Mihi Bassett is yet to be sentenced for arson charges, but Judge McNaughton has recognised that in the prison she was subjected to degrading and inhumane treatment, as well as excessive use of
Responding to news of the death of 20-year-old Mya Thwe Thwe Khaing, who was shot in the head while wearing a motorcycle helmet by Myanmar police during protests in Nay Pyi Daw on 9 February, Amnesty International's Director of Crisis Response, Joanne Mariner, said:
