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Some 20 countries executed 883 people in 2022, a more than fifty percent increase from the year before, according to rights group Amnesty International. And the number does not include the thousands of people believed to have been executed in China, for which it is impossible to get transparent figures.

The number of recorded executions has risen to its highest level in five years, according to Amnesty International.

In annual report, rights group says ‘killing spree’ was led by countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Thirty opposition figures deemed critical of president have been arrested in recent months, Human Rights Watch says.

Palestinians say Israel’s newly exposed facial recognition programme Red Wolf is another way to entrench the occupation.

"What sort of credibility do you have when you start publishing images created by artificial intelligence?”

Nuria Piera, known for her investigations into corruption, was targeted three times, Amnesty International says

The human rights charity said it artificially edited photos to protect activists’ identities

Group has removed AI images used to promote their reports on social media, including fake photos of Colombia’s 2021 protests

Syrian refugees detained by security forces in Lebanon and deported have been subject to arrest and forced conscription upon return to their war-ravaged homeland, their relatives and rights advocates have told Reuters. Some said their loved ones were being held by the Syrian army's Fourth Division, which is headed by…

Language was also said to be ‘ambiguous’ and ‘imprecise’, according to the New York Times