Press Release

Uganda now home to one million refugees from South Sudan.

Pro-democracy activists jailed for their roles in the Umbrella Movement.

Duterte's 'war on drugs' leaves 32 dead in a single day.

Responding to attempts by Kenya’s NGO regulator to shut down two human rights organizations – the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KHRC) and the African Centre for Open Governance (AfriCoG) - Michelle Kagari, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for East Africa, the Horn and the Great Lakes, said:

Number of police killings of suspected drug dealers sky rockets in Indonesia.

Hope for justice.

Tep Vanny must be released immediately and unconditionally.

“If the President is serious about stopping racism and religious discrimination, he must abandon the bigoted agenda that he campaigned on."

Amnesty International calls on the Indonesian authorities to immediately order an impartial and effective investigation into allegations that police used lethal force arbitrarily leading to the death of one man and injuries to at least ten other Papuans, including children in Papua province. The investigation should be carried out by a body independent of the police.

Four years on and nobody has been held to account for the Rabba massacre.