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Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's prison sentence upheld in Saudi ArabiaThe Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh has upheld Saudi Arabian human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s 11-year prison sentence. It is feared that he could be detained at any time to start serving his sentence. If detained he will be a prisoner of…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Salvadoran asylum seeker released in USASalvadoran woman Sara Beltran Hernandez has been granted bond and released from detention. She had been held in a Texas detention centre for 15 months, despite having a claim to asylum and being in urgent need of medical attention.
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Urgent Action update: Kiryl Kazachok at risk of imminent execution in Belarus
Kiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Woman in urgent need of surgery released in Turkey
Sibel Çapraz was conditionally released from prison on 28 February. She had been in pre-trial detention for almost one year and was in need of medical treatment and an urgent operation.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sudanese political activist held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
Sudanese national and political activist Alaa Aldin al-Difana is currently being held incommunicado without charge, following his arrest on 26 December 2016, raising fears he could be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He requires access to a…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Northern Ireland election 2017: implications for human rightsBlog post 02 Mar 2017 -
Good news: Sara Beltran Hernandez has been released!Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother who fled violence in El Salvador and has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas for 15 months, has been released from detention to be with her family and to seek treatment for a…
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Urgent Action update: Pastors face imprisonment for trumped up charges in Myanmar
Following international pressure, the Myanmar Army announced that two missing Kachin pastors, Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng, are now in police custody and face what Amnesty International believes to be politically motivated charges. If convicted…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Indigenous community remains displaced in Peru
The 21 families of the Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community, in the Central Peruvian rainforest, remain displaced from their land due to fear that armed individuals will return and act on the death threats they previously made.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist missing for more than six months in Rwanda
Journalist John Ndabarasa was last seen in Kigali on 7 August 2016. More than six months later, there is no news on his whereabouts or on the progress of the police investigation into his disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained asylum seeker need medical care in USA
Sara Beltran Hernandez fled domestic and gang violence in El Salvador in November 2015 to live with relatives in the US.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Crackdown on human rights defenders continues in Egypt
The El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was raided by police and shut down on 9 February.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Egypt: Government must protect Coptic Christians targeted in string of deadly attacks in North SinaiPress release 01 Mar 2017
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Trump’s anticipated new Muslim ban is a gross miscalculationFor a year, Trump threatened to bar Muslims from entering the United States. So whatever lofty words Trump may use tomorrow to justify this as something other than a Muslim ban, it won’t matter. One month into the Trump administration, we have already…
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Urgent Action update: Activist held in solitary confinement in South Korea
Lee Jin-young is being held in solitary confinement after being formally charged under the National Security Law (NSL) for the online distribution of materials that are deemed, by South Korean authorities, to ‘benefit’ North Korea.
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Decision on EU-Turkey deal exposes deliberate attempt to sidestep scrutinyPress release 01 Mar 2017
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Israel: Detention of Palestinian journalist on hunger strike without charge ‘unjust and cruel’Press release 28 Feb 2017
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UN: Russia and China’s abusive use of veto “shameful”Press release 28 Feb 2017
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The human rights violators’ playbook: how to respond to an Amnesty International reportAre you a government looking to deny evidence of human rights abuses? Start here.
Blog post 28 Feb 2017
