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Urgent Action: Bahraini student in detention alleges tortureBahraini student Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab was arrested on 9 February and taken to the Criminal Investigations Directorate where he alleges he was tortured and forced to “confess”. He has been denied access to a lawyer. Upon transfer to Dry Dock Prison…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017 -
UAE: prominent academic jailed for ten years over tweetsPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Taiwan NGO worker held incommunicado in China
Lee Ming-cheh is the first foreign NGO worker to be detained after the new Foreign NGO Management Law went into effect and is under investigation for “endangering national security”. No direct contact has been made with him since he first went missing on…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017 -
Article 50: Government should ensure human rights are protected"Article 50...could be an opportunity to shape British society for the better," says @KateAllenAI of @AmnestyUK.
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Urgent Action update: Vote on regressive torture bill imminent in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has until 30 April to vote on the General Law on Torture. The current version of the bill has amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Defender sentenced in Cuba after criticizing Castro
Cuban authorities sentenced human rights defender Eduardo Cardet to three years in prison after holding him in provisional prison in Holguín, south-east Cuba, since November 2016. He is a prisoner of conscience who must be released immediately and…
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Urgent Action update: Hearing set for prisoner tortured in detention in Morocco
Morocco’s Court of Cassation will hear Ali Aarrass on 29 March, four years after he lodged an appeal. He is serving a 12-year prison sentence after being unfairly convicted based on evidence obtained under torture. He has been in solitary confinement…
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South Sudan: Release all people arbitrarily detained amid the conflictPress release 28 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Bipolar disorder not raised at trial for man set to be executed in USA
Jack Jones, aged 52, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April for a murder committed in 1995. The jurors who sentenced him to death did not know he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a serious mental disability, shortly before the crime.
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Urgent Action: Fair trial concern revisited as execution looms in Arkansas, USA
Stacey Johnson, aged 47, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 20 April for a 1993 murder. Three state Supreme Court Justices argued that he was deprived of a fair trial by being denied access to information regarding the credibility of a key…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Forced evictions continue in Lagos, Nigeria
Over 4000 residents of Otodogbame waterfront community in Lagos, Nigeria were on 26 March forcibly evicted from their homes by Lagos State officials. No notice was issued to the residents prior to the forced eviction. Several residents were injured…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Mosul, Iraq: civilians killed by coalition airstrikes after being told not to fleePress release 28 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Trial ongoing against indigenous defenders in Argentina
Despite the fact that the oral trial scheduled for 20 March against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory was suspended, the legal proceedings which violate their right to defence and access to justice…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Fifth and final activist in Abdeen case released in Egypt
Gamila Seryel-Dain, the last jailed activist from the group of five activists sentenced in the ‘Abdeen case’ to two years in prison for violating Egypt’s repressive 2013 protest law, was released on 14 March after receiving a presidential pardon. All…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds of Roma at risk of forced eviction in Italy
A community of approximately 1300 Romanian Roma is facing an imminent forced eviction from the informal settlement of Gianturco in Naples, in southern Italy.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Growing health concerns for prominent activist in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab has been held in solitary confinement for nine months, with growing concerns about the effect it is having on his health and well-being.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution set despite diagnosis of schizophrenia in USA
Bruce Ward is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In custody since 1989, he has been on death row for nearly 25 years. Thirty-two years old at the time of the crime, he is now aged 60.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution date set after 25 years on death row in USA
Don Davis is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been on death death row for 25 years, having been sentenced to death in 1992 for a murder committed during a burglary in 1990.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017 -
More than 7,000 killed in the Philippines in six months, as president encourages murderPresident Duterte ordered police and citizens to kill anyone they believe to be connected to the drugs trade in June 2016. In the following six months, more than 7,000 people were killed. Police and vigilantes are brazenly killing for incentives, with no…
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Urgent Action: Paramilitary invasion of humanitarian zones in Colombia
Inhabitants of the Jiguamiandó river basin have reported the presence of paramilitary groups in their territory. The increase in paramilitary activity in these humanitarian zones is putting the Indigenous and Afro-Colombian residents at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017
