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🇵🇰On 22 March 2025, Mahrang Baloch was arrested alongside Beebow Baloch during a peaceful protest in Quetta. Her sister remembers waking to dozens of missed calls, rushing to Quetta, and walking into a home filled with dread. They spent their first Eid visiting her in prison. Today, one full year later, they are spending their third Eid without her. This Eid, Mahrang marks her full year in prison, facing deteriorating health, which threatens to impair her mobility. Her detention, and that of all arbitrarily detained Baloch activists, must end now. 👉 Join our urgent action to demand their freedom 📝 #ReleaseMahrangBaloch #ReleaseBalochActivists
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🇵🇰More than 1.4 million undocumented Afghan refugees are at imminent risk of deportation from #Pakistan after the government of Pakistan imposed the deadline of 1 Nov for the refugees to leave the country. This is a violation of their human rights and raises serious concerns regarding their safety, welfare, and access to basic services. Join us in urging the Pakistan authorities Government of Pakistan to immediately reverse its decision and adhere to international human rights law.
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🇵🇰 For nearly one year, Gulzadi Baloch has been in unlawful pretrial detention; taken from her home by counter‑terrorism officials and cut off from the life she once knew. Her sister recalls those terrifying first hours when no one knew where Gulzadi had been taken - hours filled with fear and panic. While Gulzadi’s arrest has stripped away her freedom, peaceful protest and expression have also been silenced across Balochistan. Just this month, families of detained activists were barred from holding a press conference at Quetta Press Club. Pakistani authorities must release Gulzadi and all arbitrarily detained Baloch activists immediately. 👉 Join our urgent action to demand their freedom 📝 #ReleaseGulzadi #ReleaseBalochActivists
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PAKISTAN: What do teachers, students, labourers, minors, people with disabilities and activists in Pakistan have in common? They have all been subjected to enforced disappearances. Families of the forcibly disappeared have to deal with a legal system that has failed to provide truth and justice. On International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, families are left only with questions and memories of their loved ones. Pakistani authorities must: 📌 Stop the practice of enforced disappearances; 📌 Unconditionally disclose the fate and/or whereabouts of forcibly disappeared people to their families; 📌 Ensure accountability for all cases of enforced disappearances. #EndEnforcedDisappearances Defence of Human Rights Pakistan
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Our new Amnesty International report documents the #Taliban’s long list of war crimes in Panjshir province, #Afghanistan “Those who have faced atrocities in Panjshir…deserve an end to impunity and a clear road to justice” – Agnes Callamard Read the report: ‘
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Bangladesh: Khadijatul Kubra, a 20-year-old university student, has been in pre-trial detention for over a year under the now-repealed draconian Digital Security Act (DSA), for hosting a webinar in 2020. She was arrested two years later on 27 August 2022. Though she was 17 years old at the time of the webinar, she was prosecuted as an adult. Her health is now deteriorating, and her bail applications were rejected repeatedly. Khadija's next bail hearing will be scheduled after 10th November. Khadija should be in university, studying for her degree, not in jail waiting for her fate to be decided under a draconian law. Sign our URGENT ACTION, and demand the government of Bangladesh to; 📌Drop the case against Khadijatul Kubra and immediately and unconditionally release her 📌Pending her release, ensure that she has regular access to adequate healthcare and is held in conditions that meet international standards 📌Release all those charged and detained under the DSA solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression #FreeKhadija
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PAKISTAN: Today on International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, thousands of families await the return of their loved ones. Today, Amnesty International and seven other civil society organizations highlighted the failure of the Pakistani authorities to address enforced disappearance and continued injustice for victims. The government-formed Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIED) has registered a total of 10,592 cases from 2010 to August 2025. However, not a single person or authority has been prosecuted in these cases. Pakistan must end impunity for enforced disappearances NOW. 🔗 Read our joint statement here: Defence of Human Rights Pakistan #EndEnforcedDisappearances
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PAKISTAN: Across Pakistan, students have been at the frontlines of movements for justice, human rights and accountability. But 42 years of a ban on student unions has restricted their rights to freedom of association, peaceful assembly and expression. Yet despite every attempt to suppress them, students never stopped organizing, never stopped demanding dignity, and never stopped standing up for their rights. 📢 It’s time to lift the ban on student unions in Pakistan. ✊ Stand with students. #RestoreStudentUnions
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PAKISTAN: 42 years after Pakistan banned student unions, the rights of millions remain suspended. The ban violates: 📌 Article 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), Right to peaceful assembly 📌Article 22 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of association 📌Article 19 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of expression 📢 Student unions are essential for free and inclusive campuses. ✊ Stand with students. 👉 Demand for the ban on student unions to be lifted. #RestoreStudentUnions
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📢Today marks 6 months since the Taliban arbitrarily arrested education activist Matiullah Wesa simply for protesting the ban on girls' education in #Afghanistan. ✍️Take action now! 👉 Demand justice for Matiullah: 👉Demand justice for the girls of Afghanistan. #FreeMatiullah
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URGENT ACTION 🚨- Take action and call on the Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence د استخباراتو لوی ریاست-GDI for immediate and unconditional release of four prominent women human rights defenders Zholia Parsi, Neda Parwani, Manizha Seddiqi and Parisa Azada. Read more here👇🏾: These four women human rights defenders do not have access to lawyers or regular family visits while in detention and are at risk of torture and other forms of ill-treatment.
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BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: Amnesty International’s South Asia Regional Researcher Taqbir Huda speaks to DW News about the use of unlawful force by police on student protestors in Bangladesh, as uncovered by Amnesty International and its Evidence Lab. #ProtectTheProtest #SaveBangladeshiStudents
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BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: Amnesty International's South Asia Regional Researcher Taqbir Huda speaks to Al Jazeera English about the ongoing crisis and how the internet shutdown blocks human rights monitoring. #ProtectTheProtest #SaveBangladeshiStudents
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📢SRI LANKA: During 2022 and 2023, authorities responded to unprecedented protests in #SriLanka with unlawful use of tear gas, water cannon, and misuse of batons. The suppression of protest must stop, and authorities must uphold the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Sri Lanka. Read Amnesty International’s new report which investigates Sri Lankan authorities’ unlawful force against protesters: #ProtectTheProtest #HumanRights #Amnesty
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Afghanistan: Today is the start of the new school year in Afghanistan but girls above grade six are banned from education. This is unjustifiable and in violation of fundamental human rights to education. The Taliban must allow girls of all ages to attend school and stop using cynical pretexts to further its discriminatory agenda, 📝Sign our petition to hold the Taliban accountable:
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“Since their takeover, the Taliban has imposed draconian restrictions on the rights of Afghan women and girls. Have no doubt – this is a war against women.” - Agnès Callamard, Secretary General at Amnesty International. Read more in our report:
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PAKISTAN: Afghan presence, culture and craft have become an integral part of life in the capital city of Pakistan. Without Afghan nationals, Islamabad wouldn’t be the same, shares Amnesty’s campaigner who grew up in the city. An executive order is now forcing Afghan nationals, including refugees and asylum seekers, out of Islamabad and the neighbouring city Rawalpindi, by 31 March 2025. In some parts, detentions and deportations have already begun. Families who have called these cities home for generations are being torn away. Losing them means losing a part of the city itself. 🚨 Pakistan must stop these unlawful deportations 🚨 📢 Read more: #StopDeportationsNow #UndoTheDeadline
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AFGHANISTAN: Today marks two years of the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan with unprecedented track record of human rights abuses and violations. As of today, over 198,612 people across the world have petitioned for the Taliban to end human rights abuses and violations in Afghanistan. We must continue to demand for accountability and to #EndImpunity
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BANGLADESH 🇧🇩: Amnesty International's South Asia Researcher Taqbir Huda spoke to DW News earlier today to describe how people power triumphed in #Bangladesh, while also sounding a note of caution about the risks to human rights that must be averted during this transitional period. #SaveBangladeshiStudents #ProtectTheProtest
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