Amnesty International Stories

Amnesty International slams DRC-Rwanda peace deal for ignoring war crimes accountability
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jul 02, 2025

Amnesty International's Secretary-General Agnès Callamard said the deal, inked in Washington, DC, on June 27, lacks provisions aimed at prosecuting th...

Kenya’s June 25 protests reveal Gen Z-state rift amid crackdown, media censorship
DW News  |  Jun 29, 2025

Young people, mostly from Gen Z (born in the late 1990s to early 2010s), have grown increasingly alienated from the government as confrontations escal...

LSK condemns police brutality, sexual violence, media blackout during June 25 memorial protests
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jun 26, 2025

According to LSK, thousands of Kenyans took to the streets in 23 counties to demand justice and government accountability, exercising their rights to...

UN urged to condemn death penalty for drug crimes as executions surge
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 27, 2025

According to figures from Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International, over 600 people were executed globally for drug-related offences in...

16 killed in June 25 memorial protests, most by police – Amnesty International
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Jun 26, 2025

The demonstrations marked the anniversary of last year's deadly protests over the contentious Finance Bill 2024, which saw more than 60 people killed...

June 25 Gen Z protests: NCIC, Amnesty urge peace, restraint and accountability
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Jun 24, 2025

NCIC urged all participants to exercise their right to assemble and demonstrate responsibly, warning against any form of violence or incitement.

Amnesty slams police over Ojwang murder, calls for DIG Lagat’s resignation and swift justice
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 16, 2025

Amnesty Kenya's Irũngũ Houghton said the National Police Service urgently needs deep structural reforms, warning that the unchecked use of force and t...

‘He never even finished his lunch’: Grief, questions after blogger Omondi dies in police custody
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 08, 2025

Amnesty further urged that the findings of the investigations be made public and that any officers found responsible be held fully accountable per the...

Amnesty demands release of detained software developer Rose Njeri
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jun 03, 2025

Njeri created an online tool to help Kenyans oppose the proposed Finance Bill, 2025.

Kenya’s police brutality victims trapped in endless cycle of political promises and no justice
Barack Oduor  |  Jun 02, 2025

Opposition leaders Kalonzo Musyoka, Eugene Wamalwa, and Rigathi Gachagua have urged President Ruto’s administration to compensate Kenyans affected by...

I was stripped, beaten- Uganda activist Agather Atuhaire recounts ordeal in Tanzania as Amnesty demands probe
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 24, 2025

They were held incommunicado for days at an undisclosed location and reportedly subjected to severe beatings, torture, and humiliation by individuals...

Rights groups demand probe into alleged torture of activist Boniface Mwangi in Tanzania
Lucy Mumbi  |  May 22, 2025

Addressing journalists at Moi International Airport in Mombasa on Thursday, Mwangi said he was tortured so severely that he could barely walk.

Amnesty blasts Kenya's Saudi envoy over dismissal of migrant abuse report
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 19, 2025

In a statement on Monday, Amnesty expressed shock at Ruwange's utterances, made in a Facebook post on May 17, in which he dismissed the findings of th...

Kenya defends labour deal with Saudi Arabia, dismisses Amnesty report as misleading
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  May 17, 2025

According to Mohammed, Saudi Arabia is home to more than 200,000 Kenyans working across different sectors, including domestic work, healthcare, constr...

Amnesty raises concern over “crackdown” on health workers in Ethiopia
Addis Standard  |  May 15, 2025

Amnesty also said it had received “an alert from the healthcare professionals’ association” indicating that its president, Yonatan Dagnaw, “was arrest...

Amnesty urges action as report exposes abuse of Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 12, 2025

Recruitment agencies commonly mislead them about the nature of the jobs, only for them to arrive in Saudi Arabia to a far grimmer reality.

Amnesty urges Saudi Arabia to scrap kafala system trapping Kenyan domestic workers in abuse
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 12, 2025

According to Amnesty, the system leaves migrant domestic workers particularly vulnerable, as they are excluded from Saudi Arabia's labour protection l...

Rights groups decry injustice as charges against 8 officers in Baby Pendo case dropped
Bashir Mbuthia  |  May 05, 2025

This comes after the ODPP reviewed the case on Monday and approved charges against only four of the accused individuals, with charges against the rema...

Amnesty International calls for accountability, transparency in KDF's role during Gen Z protests
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Apr 29, 2025

Despite high-level promises from the government to ensure accountability, Amnesty pointed out that there has been little progress in holding those res...

Juntas in Sahel region make life more difficult for human rights NGOs
DW News  |  Dec 22, 2024

NGO's critical reports on human rights are inconvenient for the junta leaders, making them a thorn in the side of West Africa's military regimes.

Rights groups slam police transfers as inadequate in addressing brutality during anti-femicide protest
Mary Wambui  |  Dec 17, 2024

The two senior officers were transferred on Tuesday morning in a surprise move following Inspector General Douglas Kanja's directive last week.

Amnesty International, Mukuru Social Justice Centre fault state over killings
Barack Oduor  |  Oct 26, 2024

Anami Daudi of Mukuru Social Justice Centre suggested that the killings should be declared as a national disaster.

Kenya says it deported four Turkish refugees back home
Reuters  |  Oct 21, 2024

Amnesty said on Saturday that if they were deported they could face serious human rights violations, which underscored "growing concerns about the saf...

Trial of 12 police commanders in Kisumu post-election violence delayed again
Joseph Ndunda  |  Oct 03, 2024

The suspects will be bearing consequences for failing to exercise command responsibility to prevent their juniors from committing atrocities on civili...

Tanzanian police release opposition leaders after mass arrests
Reuters  |  Aug 13, 2024

President Samia Suluhu Hassan has taken some steps to ease restrictions on the media and opposition since coming to power in 2021, but rights groups s...

Human Rights Watch report reveals extensive sexual violence in Sudan's capital
Mwangi Maina  |  Jul 29, 2024

"I have slept with a knife under my pillow for months in fear of the raids that lead to rape by RSF," a 20-year-old woman living in an RSF-controlled...

Kenya rights groups decry abductions as government cracks down on protests
Reuters  |  Jul 05, 2024

Activists are demanding President Ruto's resignation amid allegations that intelligence services are responsible for the abduction of dozens of indivi...

End criminalisation of protests and respect law, Amnesty tells Kenya's security organs
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Jul 02, 2024

Amnesty stressed the need for the National Police Service (NPS) and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) to strictly operate within the confines of the law...

Amnesty and ICJ call for ban on plainclothes officers and unmarked vehicles in protests
Waweru Wairimu  |  Jun 28, 2024

Kenyan law requires officers to be in uniform, publicly show their names and service numbers, and be transported in cars with licence plates.

Egypt unlawfully deported Sudanese refugees, rights group says
Reuters  |  Jun 19, 2024

The war that erupted in April last year between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world's biggest displaceme...

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