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Yemen: Huthi forces recruiting child soldiers for front-line combatYemen: Huthi forces recruiting child soldiers for front-line combat
Press release 28 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Okinawa activist continues to be denied bail in JapanHiroji Yamashiro remains in detention following the denial of his Special Appeal for bail by the Supreme Court on 20 February 2017. Arrested for his role in protests against new U.S. military construction projects in Okinawa, Hiroji Yamashiro has not…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience on trial faces new charges in BahrainPrisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab remains on trial for comments posted on Twitter. The verdict pursuant to his trial has been repeatedly postponed since October 2016. He also faces a new trial on separate charges related to TV interviews he gave. He…
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender signs plea bargain in Israel/OPT
Human rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Anas Barghouti has agreed to a plea bargain to avoid prison.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian woman in Canada risks torture if deported
Azizi Mirmahaleh, a 60-year old woman from Iran, is currently in a detention centre in Laval, Québec, awaiting her scheduled deportation on 28 February.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution date set for Malaysian brothers
Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai are scheduled to be executed on Friday, 24 February 2017. The brothers were convicted of murder in 2010 on the basis of circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Refugee granted bail but still faces charges in Papua New Guinea
Loghman Sawari, an Iranian refugee, was granted bail on 14 February but continues to face criminal charges for using false information to obtain a passport after he flew to Fiji on around 24 January 2017 and attempted to claim asylum there.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update correction: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Trafalgar Square screening of The Salesman film is 'right response' to US travel banPress release 24 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Economist's next trial on 22 February in UAE
The trial of Dr Nasser bin Ghaith before the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began anew on 18 January. His next hearing is scheduled for 22 February.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Kaiser Chiefs unveil new human rights film during UK tourPress release 22 Feb 2017
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Home Secretary Amber Rudd’s claim about child refugees could not be further from the truthWhen the Home Secretary announced the government would end its scheme to bring lone child refugees already in Europe to the UK, she claimed it was because it encourages children to make dangerous journeys and benefits smugglers. This could not be further…
Blog post 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sentenced to death based on 'confessions' in Iraq
Brothers Mahmoud Tale’ Nayef and Taleb Tale’ Nayef were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 9 August 2016 based on “confessions” extracted under torture. Taleb Tale’ Nayef remains at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Falun Gong practitioner faces imprisonment in China
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Huixia has been indicted for “using an evil cult to undermine law enforcement” and is facing three years to life imprisonment. Her family have been unable to visit her since 3 June 2016, the date she was first detained.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Necessary medical treatment denied to prisoner in Vietnam
Prisoner of conscience Đinh Nguyên Kha is being denied medical treatment following an operation to remove a tumour from his stomach three months ago, which could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Unwell Palestinian in administrative detention in Israel/OPT
Palestinian Muhammed al-Qiq has been on hunger strike since 6 February in protest against his administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist back in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini activist Nader Abdulemam was arrested on 18 February and taken to Jaw prison to serve the remaining four and a half months of a prison sentence handed down to him for participating in and calling on people to join an illegal march in Manama in…
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Northern Ireland criticised for failures on dealing with past and abortion law - Amnesty global reportPress release 22 Feb 2017
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2016: The year of ‘us vs them’The world in 2016 became a darker and more unstable place. From the vicious crackdowns on dissenting voices to the rise of hate speech across Europe and the USA, don't let them divide us. Join the fight for human rights.
21 Feb 2017
