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The Home Office should be scrapping the use of this dangerous and discriminatory tool of surveillance, not expanding it.

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This technology has been known to lead to misidentification and the risk of wrongful arrest, as we saw in the case of Shaun Thompson earlier this year.

There’s no real regulation on how these technologies are used.

Police are writing their own rules with no accountability or oversight.

Facial recognition technology = mass human rights violations.

Again and again, this technology has been proven to be discriminatory against racialised communities.

Make no mistake: this is a decision to further entrench racism within policing.

Amnesty is working closely with Ahmed's family and to ensure the UK government brings in a strategy for British nationals wrongly detained abroad.

Ahmed al-Doush is a British father who was arrested while on holiday in Saudi Arabia on 31st August 2024 and imprisoned for eight years for social media posts. But we don’t even know which ones, because the Saudi authorities haven’t released that information.

The root problem still exists - the UK government’s failure to act with urgency and consistency. There is still no coherent strategy to protect British nationals or respond effectively when they are unjustly detained abroad.

This isn't a drama. It's a warning.

The new BBC drama, Prisoner 951, tells the story of Richard and Nazanin’s fight for justice.

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were unjustly imprisoned in Iran, and Amnesty UK campaigned for their release.

🚨BREAKING: Dozens more people arrested for peaceful protest in Manchester.

The protesters in Manchester were not inciting violence and it is absurd to be treating them as terrorists.

These arrests are a violation of our rights to freedom of expression and assembly.

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Defend Dissent We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

Usama’s isn’t an isolated case but part of a broader crackdown on freedom of speech and protest on our campuses.

Join our student-led Defend Dissent campaign and fight against repression on university campuses: www.amnesty.org.uk/defenddissent

Yesterday King’s College London reported their student, Usama Ghanem, to the Home Office after they suspended him for protesting the genocide in Gaza.

TW: Contains reference to sexual assault and murder.

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Twenty-two years ago today Section 28 was repealed.

But we're seeing history repeat itself as some in the media and in politics spread bigotry and misinformation about trans people.

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The European Convention on Human Rights protects every single one of us in the UK.

Some politicians want to tear up these protections to distract us from the real problems affecting our daily lives.

This afternoon Nigel Farage failed to pass his bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. The ECHR protects us all and we must continue to resist attempts to remove this vital safety net. History teaches us clearly: rights can be lost quickly if we don't defend them.

History teaches us clearly: rights can be lost quickly if we don't defend them.

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Israeli authorities continue to illegally detain Palestinian health workers including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.

On Monday, UK healthcare workers, Healthcare Workers Watch & Health Workers4Palestine joined Amnesty activists to demand Palestinian health workers illegally detained in Israel are released.

Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society

Social security is a human right.

When it's torn away fear and division fill the gap.

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The arrest and arbitrary detention of health workers from Gaza is part of Israel’s systematic decimation of the healthcare system in Gaza. The intentional creation of conditions calculated to destroy Palestinians in Gaza constitutes an act of genocide.

On 27 December 2024, Israeli forces stormed Kamal Adwan Hospital - the last functioning hospital in North Gaza at the time - and arrested the hospital’s director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya along with other medical staff and patients.

🚨BREAKING: today UK healthcare workers were joined by Amnesty activists to demand the release of Dr Abu Safiya and all of the 105 Palestinian healthcare workers who remain illegally detained in Israeli prisons.

Chancellor says she ‘can’t leave welfare untouched’ this parliament as budget looms Rachel Reeves understood to be eyeing cuts to Motability scheme as she tries to plug hole in country’s finances

Poverty is a political choice.

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Israeli courts have extended the arbitrary detention of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya.

On 27.12.24 Israeli military arbitrarily detained him, a paediatrician and director of Kamal Adwan Hospital.

His name was initially on the release list as part of the ceasefire deal. He must be released immediately.

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Outside parliament, a banner made from images sent in by people across the UK carries one powerful message: social security is a human right.

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