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Additional contact details: Over 300 displaced due to paramilitary action in ColombiaAn incursion by paramilitaries and subsequent armed confrontation between them and guerrilla groups forced a mass displacement of families and the potential confinement of surrounding communities in Peña Azul, Chocó department, in north-western Colombia.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Amnesty announces judging panel for children's book honourPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Clemency board in USA to hear what jury never did
Marcel Williams, aged 46, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April. The jury never heard any mitigating evidence about his childhood of severe abuse and trauma.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Brothers hurriedly executed in secretive manner in Malaysia
Despite a pending clemency application before the state’s Pardon Board, brothers Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai were executed at dawn on 15 March 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Two Sudanese dissidents interrogated for activism in Saudi Arabia
Two Sudanese nationals, who till 13 February had been held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia since their arrest on 21 December 2016, have been interrogated by the Saudi Arabian authorities about their social media activism and are now awaiting trial.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Four families in USA detained for over 500 days
Four young children and their mothers are seeking asylum in the US after escaping horrific violence in their home countries.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous defenders denied right to defence in ArgentinaOn 20 March the oral trial against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory will take place. These legal proceedings violate their right to defence and access to justice.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Algerian activist Dahmane Kerami released
Algerian activist Dahmane Kerami was released on 31 December 2016 after spending one year behind bars for participating in 2014 and 2015 in peaceful social protests in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Forty pairs of shoes go on display in London to highlight student disappearances in MexicoPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Three Bahrainis executed by firing squad
On 15 January the Bahraini authorities executed three men by firing squad. Seven others continue to serve life sentences which were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 9 January along with the three death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
It's a human right to agitate the 'injustice' systemA year ago I walked out of a Louisiana prison a free man after serving 44 years in solitary confinement.
Blog post 17 Mar 2017 -
Exclusive Albert Woodfox podcast to launch series two of Amnesty's 'In Their Own Words'Press release 17 Mar 2017
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Qatar: International Labour Organisation should continue probe into migrant worker abusePress release 17 Mar 2017
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Podcast: Albert Woodfox on surviving 44 years in solitaryAlbert Woodfox has endured longer in solitary confinement than anyone else in the US. When he was imprisoned in Louisiana in the 1970s, racism was rife. Albert took a stand - and it cost him. Hear why Albert was punished over the odds and how he survived…
16 Mar 2017 -
Last night we won against the Muslim ban - here’s why we have to keep fightingOvernight, two courts intervened to temporarily block Trump’s new Muslim ban, which was set to go into effect at midnight. This is a vindication for human rights and public outrage. The trouble is, he has many more of these policies.
Blog post 16 Mar 2017 -
Latest Information & Urgent Action update: Syrian refugee remains detained five months on
A 21-year-old Syrian refugee has spent more than five months in police detention awaiting a decision on whether he will be forcibly returned from Greece to Turkey under the EU-Turkey deal.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Mar 2017 -
New 'Justice for Syria' campaign launched on sixth anniversary of crisisPress release 15 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Former governor released without charge in South Sudan
Elias Waya Nyipuoch, former governor of Wau state, was released without charge on 14 March. He had been detained by the South Sudanese military since 26 June 2016.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Mar 2017 -
Syria: Miraculous journeys, stranded hopesGyan and her brother Alan fled their homes in Syria to escape war and reach safety in Europe. A dangerous and exhausting journey for anyone, but the stakes are even higher when you're in a wheelchair. This is their incredible story.
Blog post 15 Mar 2017 -
Trump travel ban: flashmob demo will tour iconic London locations with 'No Ban, No Wall' messagePress release 15 Mar 2017
