Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul should withdraw his criminal defamation complaint against Yingcheep Atchanont, director of Thai civil society organisation iLaw, over public remarks concerning alleged political involvement in irregularities in the 2024 Senate selection process, Amnesty International Thailand said today, warning that the lawsuit risks deterring public scrutiny of those in power.

A growing number of states across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) are taking positive steps towards reducing the use and scope of the death penalty, creating new momentum towards abolition in a region historically associated with strong support for this cruel punishment, said Amnesty International ahead of the World Day Against the Death Penalty on 10 October. The progress taken by many countries highlights the isolation of Singapore as an outlier in the region, as executions globally remain confined to a small group of countries.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Amnesty International’s global Write for Rights campaign, which has supported more than 200 people and groups.

As Pacific leaders, communities and civil society gather in Fiji and Tuvalu for the Pre-COP31 meetings, the expected absence of many world leaders must not become another excuse for climate inaction, Amnesty International said today.

Joint Submission to the 53rd session of the UPR Working Group, 

Authorities and forces affiliated with Hamas in the occupied Gaza Strip must put an end to extrajudicial executions of suspected collaborators with Israel, carried out in the absence of any judicial proceedings, Amnesty International said today. Last month alone, security officials in Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, publicly announced the summary execution of one man for spying for Israel and their intention to execute another “informant” within days within the context of what they called a large-scale security campaign.

BANGKOK — Amnesty International Thailand has called on the Thai government to prioritize human rights during the official visit of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Myanmar’s military leader, former Commander-in-Chief and leader of the 2021 coup d’état, who was elected president this past April. Min Aung Hlaing stands accused of responsibility for grave human rights violations and crimes under international law. Amnesty also urged the Thai government not to allow bilateral cooperation to proceed at the expense of disregarding the ongoing human rights abuses in Myanmar.

Despite the increasingly fractious state of the world, governments and civil society have come together to pass important laws and resolutions to tackle human rights harms, following protests and petitions from activists and campaigners.

The Cambodian government’s high-profile crackdown on scamming compounds has failed to dismantle the vast majority of sites in the country or protect and support thousands of people subjected to human trafficking, torture and slavery, Amnesty International said in a new report released today.

This report presents the latest evidence on the state of the scamming industry in Cambodia from a human rights perspective and assess the effectiveness of state actions on both the industry and its victims. It explores transparency, accountability, due process, victim protection and state responsibility, assessing whether the measures taken by the Cambodian government constitute genuine attempts at countering the scamming industry or merely replicate past patterns of selective enforcement and human rights violations.

Coordinated disinformation campaigns portraying government critics as “foreign agents” are silencing dissent and fueling intimidation and violence under Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, Amnesty International said in a new report published today.

Responding to the resumption of the trial of activists who organized Tiananmen vigils in Hong Kong, Amnesty International Hong Kong’s spokesperson Fernando Cheung said: