He ordered women to drown their own babies in buckets, for example, and also ordered the execution of his uncle and former girlfriend despite the fact that there was no tangible evidence of either of them ever having committed crimes. Firing squad executions occur at unprecedented levels. To date, there are still over , people awaiting their public execution in the gulags.
In South Sudan, bloody massacres occurred, claiming the lives of , refugees. Later, evidence of mass graves and violent attacks on U. N peacekeepers were unearthed. Despite the independence given to South Sudan in , internal conflict in emerged with abundance, resulting in numerous human rights atrocities and the targeting of the poor for extrajudicial killings.
Almost , people have been displaced as a result of the violence. He lives in exile in Uganda. He says he is sorry his native country is on top of the worst country list.
And, their response and crackdown on the demonstrations and protest by civilians, particular among students, have been associated with a very disturbing pattern of torture and other measures the government has taken against these groups.
It says new threats have emerged in nearly every region of the world. These include heightened attacks on human rights defenders and civil society, increased limits on press freedom and attacks on journalists. Despite recent setbacks, the report says the world in is still significantly freer than it was 30 years ago.
It says dozens of states have replaced dictatorships and authoritarian regimes with democratically-elected governments. Search Search. Home United States U. And human rights violations were seen to continue with government and allied forces, including Russia, carrying out indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
The UN Security Council is scrambling to achieve a resolution to impose a ceasefire in Syria after rebel-held areas were attacked for a sixth consecutive day Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin's clampdown on free speech showed little sign of abating throughout , Amnesty said. Ahead of a presidential election next month, the government has arrested hundreds of peaceful protestors at a time.
The campaign group said those arrested frequently faced "arbitrary detention, beatings and intimidation. Amnesty International accused Saudi Arabia of unfairly detaining human rights defenders and executing Shi'a activists. It also said women were still facing "systemic discrimination" both in law and in practice. Saudi Arabia's deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is currently pushing through substantial social and economic reforms in a bid to transform the kingdom.
Late last year, bin Salman detained scores of top princes, businessmen and government officials in a so-called clampdown on corruption. In September , the UN described a security operation in Myanmar that targeted Rohingya Muslims as a "textbook example of ethnic cleansing. When violence erupted in Rakhine state in August , hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled crimes against humanity to neighboring Bangladesh. Amnesty said the country's army committed "extensive violations" of international humanitarian law and authorities were continuing to restrict humanitarian access in the Asian country.
Amnesty accused both the European Union and Australia of adopting an "outright callous" approach to the global refugee crisis. The group said refugees were not being treated as human beings but instead as "problems to be deflected. Under the guise of national security, Amnesty warned Chinese Premier Xi Jinping had enacted "serious threats" to human rights into law last year.
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