🇵🇰 Pakistan's restrictions on foreign news outlets, extending to local staff of these organizations, under the new Foreign Media Facilitation Guidelines, 2026 are an attack on press freedom. Why is the government afraid of truth?

🇵🇰 Amnesty International joins local and international civil society organisations in urging Pakistan’s authorities to end the escalating restrictions on the right to freedom of expression, including press freedom, access to information, and human rights advocacy. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: Ahead of the third anniversary of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s ongoing detention: “Pakistan’s authorities have systematically denied Imran Khan the right to a fair trial, subjected him to prolonged solitary confinement, and limited his access to medical care and visitation rights."

Pakistan: Authorities must lift communications blackout following reports of lethal force used against protesters amid elections. Read more 👇

Pakistan: Authorities must lift communications blackout following reports of lethal force used against protesters amid elections 

Reacting to reports that security forces used lethal force against protesters in Rawalakot, Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, on the first day of the regional election, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Acting Regional Director for South Asia, said:   “The disturbing reports emerging from Rawalakot are consistent with the Pakistani authorities’ long history of unlawful violence against protesters in Jammu and Kashmir. A prompt, independent, and transparent investigation must be ordered into the security forces’ use of force against protesters. So long as an internet and mobile […]

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Following earlier engagements and pressure from 19 EU states and Norway, the @ec.europa.eu invited the Taliban to Brussels in June 2026 to discuss Afghan deportations. The Taliban hailed the visit as "historic", marking its first-ever talks in the EU with member states.

On the back of the shameful meeting with the Taliban hosted by the EU Commission, @amnesty.org urges the EU and member states to immediately abandon all efforts to deport people to unsafe Afghanistan and halt their reckless, unconscionable cooperation with the Taliban on returns.

EU/Afghanistan: Abandon Unconscionable Efforts to Deport People to Afghanistan - Letter – European Institutions Office

Amnesty International urges to immediately reverse course on European Union (EU) institutions and member states’ efforts to deport people to Afghanistan.

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PAKISTAN: Jiand Baloch was forcibly disappeared from his home a week ago, on 24 July 2026, by security forces. His whereabouts remain unknown. 📢 Pakistani authorities must immediately reveal his fate and whereabouts, and ensure his safety. Take action NOW: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

PAKISTAN: “The disturbing reports emerging from Rawalakot are consistent with the Pakistani authorities’ long history of unlawful violence against protesters in Jammu and Kashmir." READ MORE: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

PAKISTAN: In the past 50 days, people in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir have lived through internet blackouts, mass arbitrary arrests and restrictions on movement amid a crackdown on dissent.

PAKISTAN: Sanitation workers keep our cities running, yet many continue to work in unsafe conditions. Based on media reports, at least 16 sanitation workers have died since April 2026. Their deaths were linked to suffocation and exposure to toxic fumes while manually cleaning sewers.

Millions of Afghan refugees are being expelled across the globe, and that number keeps climbing day by day. In host countries, they are facing arbitrary arrests and family separations; upon return, they face human rights violations amidst one of the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world.

🇵🇰 Responding to the authorities’ violent and sweeping crackdown on protests in Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International said: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Pakistan: “Terrorism” designation of protest movement marks dangerous escalation in Jammu and Kashmir crackdown

Crackdown in Pakistan-administrated Jammu and Kashmir has included an internet shutdown, mass arbitrary arrests, and deadly use of force

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Pakistan: Dad Shah was forcibly disappeared from his home in Karachi, Sindh, on 21 April by state officials allegedly belonging to the Counter Terrorism Department. 📢 Take action to call for his release: amnesty.org/en/documents...

Sri Lanka: 📖 A new Amnesty International report finds that Malaiyaha Tamil workers on private tea estates in Southern Sri Lanka are facing labour abuses that may amount to forced labour under International Labour Organization (ILO) standards: amnesty.org/en/documents...

🇵🇰On the first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling that trials of civilians by military courts are constitutional Amnesty said: "The Supreme Court’s 2025 decision has fundamentally undermined the right to a fair trial and the right to liberty in Pakistan" Read: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

In South Asia, garment workers contend daily with poor working conditions. But when they want to raise their collective voice to demand better conditions, they are ignored; when they try to organize, they are threatened and fired; and when they protest, they are beaten, arrested and shot at.

PAKISTAN: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement activists Hanif Pashteen and Noor Ullah Tareen have been forcibly disappeared since 12 November 2025 after being taken into police custody in Peshawar. Their whereabouts remain unknown. Take action here to call for their release: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

🇵🇰 Seven members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Co­m­m­­ittee (AAC) have been arbitrarily detained for over 45 days under Pakistan’s anti-terrorism law, solely for peacefully exercising their rights to assembly and expression. 1/5

13 years ago, the Rana Plaza tragedy in Bangladesh killed more than 1,100 people - mostly women - and injured 2,500 others. Many of the cause of the disaster continues to affect garment workers today.

PAKISTAN: Ali Wazir has spent nearly 20 months trapped in a cycle of arbitrary detention, repeat cases and re‑arrests designed to keep him behind bars. ✊ Demand his immediate release 📣 Take part in our urgent action appeal 🔗https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA33/0917/2026/en/ #FreeAliWazir

Notice a pattern? The world's most powerful are repeatedly undermining international law and silencing people who oppose them. Everyone deserves a world where leaders put human rights first - every time. We all deserve better. A world where human rights come first, not last. #HumanityMustWin

This week marks the beginning of a new school year in Afghanistan. But girls above the age 12, including university students, remain banned for more than 4 years. 📢 The Taliban must end their discriminatory policies and allow girls to return to school 👉🏼 amn.st/BreakTheSilenceAFG

On 20 March 2025, Bebarg Zehri was taken from his home in Quetta by CTD officials. After a year of unlawful detention, his family fears for his health, safety and liberty. 👉 Join our urgent action to demand the freedom of Baloch activists 📝 amn.st/BalochActivist #ReleaseBalochActivists

🇦🇫/🇵🇰: The Pakistani must "carry out an independent, impartial and timely investigation into the circumstances of [the Kabul rehab centre] strike and the resulting civilian casualties, with the results made public with a view to ensuring accountability." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Afghanistan/Pakistan: Strike on Kabul rehabilitation centre raises serious concerns under international humanitarian law

Amnesty International calls for investigation into circumstances of strike that resulted in hundreds of civilian casualties

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PAKISTAN: It’s been nearly one year. 5 Baloch activists, Mahrang Baloch, Bebarg Zehri, Beebow Baloch, Shah Jee Sibghat Ullah and Gulzadi Baloch, remain in unlawful pretrial detention simply for their peaceful activism. 👉 Join our call for their immediate release. 📝 amn.st/BalochActivist

🇵🇰 Pakistan: Investigation urgently needed after killings during Iran protests “The killing of protesters and reports of the use of lethal ammunition by security forces against these assemblies raise serious concerns about unlawful use of force.” READ MORE: www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Pakistan: Investigation urgently needed after killings during Iran protests

Deaths of at least 26 people raise serious concerns about unlawful use of force by security forces said Amnesty International

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Pakistan: Human rights lawyers Imaan Mazari and Hadi Ali Chattha were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment under Pakistan's Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act on 24 January 2026 for social media posts on X. Demand their release. Take action NOW: amn.st/FreeImanHadi

PAKISTAN: Across Pakistan, students have been at the frontlines of movements for justice, human rights and accountability. 📢 It’s time to lift the ban on student unions in Pakistan. ✊ Stand with students. #RestoreStudentUnions

PAKISTAN: 42-year ban on student unions violates: 📌 Art. 21 of ICCPR, Right to peaceful assembly 📌 Art. 22 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of association 📌 Art. 19 of ICCPR, Right to freedom of expression ✊ Stand with students. 👉 Demand for the ban on student unions to be lifted. #RestoreStudentUnions

PAKISTAN: On this day, 9 February 1984, Pakistan banned student unions, silencing millions of young people across generations. #RestoreStudentUnions