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The Syrian government and rebel groups swapped dozens of women prisoners and hostages, some of them with their children, in Hama province on the evening of Feb. 7, a monitor and a rebel official said, according to Reuters. 

As many as 13,000 people were hanged in five years at a notorious Syrian government prison near Damascus, Amnesty International said on Feb. 7, accusing the regime of a "policy of extermination." 

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced Feb. 2 the military would take a leading role in his deadly drug war, while vowing to kill more traffickers and addicts.

Turkey's Interior Ministry has rejected a report prepared by Amnesty International that decried security forces' "brutal crackdown" in the country's southeast, especially the Sur district of the southeastern province of Diyarbakır. 

The move to expel Gülen supporter Abdullah Buyuk to Turkey "bears all the hallmarks of an unlawful rendition to risk of torture", human rights organization Amnesty International says in a report.

In one of the sections dedicated to Bulgaria, AI recalls the story of Buyuk, who was handed over to Turkey in August of last year.

Bulgarian machine guns have been used by para-military organisations in Iraq, announced Patrick Wilken with Amnesty International.

Wilken is the author of a report on the arms used in Iraq by groupings which violate human rights.

The arms were delivered legally for the Iraqi government but para-military groupings got hold of them.

A new report by Amnesty International, published on Thursday, says weapons from various countries - including Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania - have ended up in Iraq with mainly Shiite militia groups, which have used the arms to commit serious crimes.

Bulgaria and at least 15 other countries have supplied arms to pro-government Iraqi para-military groupings indicted on charges of carrying out several military crimes and violating human rights, read an Amnesty International report.

Actually, this question should be rephrased as, "Would the EU make a strategic enemy and Putin a sound friend?" Well, let's go further and question whether or not they would make you say, "Putin's Russia is more trustworthy than the EU?"

The European Union (EU) must immediately put an end to its plans to return asylum-seekers to Turkey on the false pretence that it is a “safe country” for refugees, said Amnesty International in a report published on Friday reiterating that the