#ShutItAllDown has resonated with Canadians as well, with several people taking to Toronto's Yonge and Dundas Square to protest in solidarity with those in Nigeria.

The group said it had laid off staff after facing a crackdown over the past two years over allegations of financial wrongdoing that it said were baseless.

In its latest report, the group also said that rival authorities in eastern Libya forcibly expelled several thousand migrants ``without due process or the opportunity to challenge their deportation.''

A prominent human-rights organization says Canada is failing to bring suspected war criminals to justice.

Amnesty International Canada has joined a number of rights and sex work advocates in a lobby effort asking federal Justice Minister David Lametti for a moratorium on prostitution laws.

Amal Ahmed Albaz has been fighting tirelessly to bring her dad, Yasser Albaz, home. That fight recently became urgent when the family received word he may have contracted COVID-19.

Punithan Genasan, 37, was sentenced to death on Friday for masterminding a 2011 heroin transaction.

Almost two dozen Canadians detained in foreign countries have told government officials in recent years they were being tortured.

Amnesty International said the hanging showed Japan’s “shocking lack of respect for the right to life.”

The protests, which lasted about four days in several cities and towns in Iran in November, were sparked by a sharp rise in gasoline prices.