Emanuele Russo
@emanuele82
Human rights defender - @amnestyitalia former Chairperson
Iran: Deliberate Israeli attack on Tehran’s Evin prison must be investigated as a war crime The evidence establishes reasonable grounds to believe that the Israeli military brazenly and deliberately attacked civilian buildings. @ErikaGuevaraR @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Azerbaijan: from newsroom to cell. In Azerbaijan, critical journalists face persecution and severe reprisals for their work, including arbitrary arrests, fabricated charges, unfair trials and long prison sentences in harsh detention conditions. Report: tinyurl.com/p5v29rz6

Urgent action: Brazil Bill threatens human rights and climate Take action ➡️ tinyurl.com/32hkwdhf⬅️ as soon as possible. @amnesty

Israel is continuing to use starvation as a method of warfare, a war crime, and as a tool to commit genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. The harrowing suffering of starving Palestinians in Gaza, including our own colleagues, on an hourly basis, is…
Food should never come with gunfire. Over 500 Palestinians have been killed and 4,000 injured under Israel’s militarized distribution scheme in #Gaza. This is not a humanitarian response. #EndGazaGenocide #CeaseFireNow

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territory: ‘You feel like you are subhuman’: Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in #Gaza Read full report➡️ tinyurl.com/yassthaz #EndGazaGenocide @amnesty @AmnestyMENA

Cambodia: Scamming crisis survivors must be protected amid police crackdown. It is vital that authorities respect the human rights of individuals found in these locations, where we have documented slavery, torture and other abuses. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
What a great moment and conversation with Ireland @PresidentIRL Michael D. Higgins. Many thanks for all that you are doing for human rights, including in Gaza.
President Michael D. Higgins today received the Secretary General of @amnesty, Agnés Callamard, and the Executive Director of @AmnestyIreland, Stephen Bowen, on a courtesy call in Áras an Uachtaráin. Read the President's statement following the meeting at president.ie/en/media-libra…
Angola: Police must refrain from violating the right to freedom of peaceful assembly, including through the use of unnecessary and excessive force against protestors as witnessed in past protests, including on 12 July. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
The Russian authorities are disguising their relentless persecution of dissent as countering ‘extremism’ through vague and overly broad legislation, that allows for abusive interpretation and arbitrariness. @struthers_marie @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
EU-Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’. This will be remembered as one of the most disgraceful moments in the EU’s history. @amnesty @AgnesCallamard amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Thailand: New amnesty law must clear peaceful protesters of all charges including lèse-majesté. This is also an opportunity to ensure that authorities who perpetrated human rights violations against protesters are not granted immunity for their crimes. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Venezuela: Detentions without a trace The crime of enforced disappearance in Venezuela New report: tinyurl.com/9j2wh2xf @amnesty

Venezuela: Enforced disappearances amount to crimes against humanity The Venezuelan authorities have committed, and continue to commit, enforced disappearances as part of their policy of repression of dissidents and those they perceive as such. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Sudan: Life-saving aid must reach the people caught between the rains and conflict. To stop this humanitarian emergency from spiraling further, parties to the armed conflict must facilitate rapid, unconditional and safe access to humanitarian aid @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Eswatini’s authorities are failing to safeguard the independence and integrity of the country’s courts – a failure illustrated by the persistent delay to hear Bacede Mabuza’s appeal. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Hong Kong: Appeal hearing in ‘HK 47’ case a pivotal chance to correct mass injustice. Only by overturning these convictions can Hong Kong’s courts begin to restore the city’s global standing. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
Urgent action: Saudi Arabia British national sentenced to 8 years in prison: Ahmed al-Doush Take action ➡️ tinyurl.com/6r7pk9af ⬅️ as soon as possible. @amnesty

In the Dominican Republic, racist migration policies are harming thousands of Haitian nationals and Dominicans of Haitian and afro descent, who face racial profiling, and collective deportations. Join us to stop racist migration policies ⬇️ amnesty.org/en/petition/st…
The Nigerian authorities must take urgent steps to avert a humanitarian catastrophe in the central state of Benue where attacks by gunmen have displaced at least 500,000 people. @amnesty amnesty.org/en/latest/news…