Amnesty International South Asia
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Amnesty International South Asia
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Defending human rights in South Asia and around the world. #Afghanistan #Bangladesh #Pakistan #SriLanka #Maldives #Bhutan #Nepal
Our findings reveal a series of systemic failures: failure to exhaust non-violent means before resorting to force; the dangerous and unlawful use of less-lethal weapons; poor planning, preparation and training for policing of protests; unnecessary and unlawful use of lethal force.
December 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The briefing documents how security forces used mounting and ultimately lethal force – including live ammunition – against largely peaceful protesters during the assembly in Kathmandu on 8 September, at which at least 19 people were killed and more than 300 injured.
December 8, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Amnesty International calls on Pakistani authorities to:

✅ Immediately disclose the whereabouts of the activists and ensure their safe return
✅ Conduct prompt, independent and effective investigations into their disappearance and prosecute those responsible
✅ End enforced disappearances

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November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
These enforced disappearances are part of a disturbing pattern of targeting dissent inside the country, particularly in provinces such as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

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#EndEnforcedDisappearances
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Pakistani authorities must immediately disclose Ghani’s fate and whereabouts and ensure his safe return. Further, authorities must conduct a prompt, thorough, independent, impartial, transparent and effective investigation into his abduction, and bring to justice those responsible. 4/4
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Ghani had previously been named in a criminal case on charges of “anti-state” slogans during a protest and had delivered a lecture at the local university on student politics the day before his abduction. We are very concerned about Ghani’s safety. 3/4
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
According to eyewitnesses, plain-clothes men accompanied by uniformed law enforcement officials, abducted Ghani, intimidated bystanders in the hospital and confiscated the mobile phones of all family members present. 2/4
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It also explores how these workers are largely invisible in government policies on climate change, water and sanitation due to their caste, gender and occupation, despite being among the most affected by these policies.
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Our research documents the huge barriers that Dalit women sanitation workers in Khulna and Satkhira districts on the south-western coastal belt in Bangladesh face to access safe drinking water, adequate sanitation and their vulnerability and exclusion in climate change relief programmes.
October 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM