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Urgent Action: Over 90 men killed in Brazilian prison riots
In the first week of January, over 90 men were killed (shot dead, beheaded or quartered) in prisons in Amazonas and Roraima states in northern Brazil, as a result of riots and conflicts between criminal gangs.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Malawi: Killing of man with albinism underscores past policing and criminal justice failuresPress release 11 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Four human rights activists gone missing in Pakistan
Since the beginning of January activists Salman Haider, Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, and Ahmed Raza Naseer have gone missing in a suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces in Pakistan.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer held incommunicado at risk of torture in China
Authorities confirm that Beijing human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, last heard from on 21 November 2016, has been placed under “residential surveillance in a designated location” on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist in Libya tortured and at risk of expulsion
Jabir Zain, an activist residing in Libya, continues to be detained in an unknown location over 100 days following his enforced disappearance by a militia in Tripoli.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Facing firing squad for drugs crimes in IndonesiaTen people still face being shot by firing squad after their scheduled executions were postponed in July 2016. All executions in Indonesia carried out under current president Joko Widodo have been for alleged drugs offenses.
10 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Bahraini prisoner of conscience released
Bahraini activist Dr Sa’eed Mothaher Habib al-Samahiji has been released after completing his one-year prison sentence. He was a prisoner of conscience.
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USA: 'final plea' to Obama to close GuantánamoPress release 10 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking activist in poor health in Evin, Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati is in poor health in Evin Prison, 67 days into an ongoing hunger strike against his imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Turkey’s crackdown on human rightsFollowing the failed coup, the Turkish government embarked on a crackdown of exceptional proportions, targeting people it accuses of being linked to Fethullah Gülen – a Turkish cleric in exile in the US, who the government accuse of masterminding the…
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Urgent Action: LGBTI activist held in pre-trial detention in Turkey
Fashion designer and LGBTI activist Barbaros Şansal is being held in pre-trial detention, accused of ‘inciting the public to hatred or hostility’ for a video message and tweet he shared on social media on New Year’s Eve.
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Hissène Habré appeal: Amnesty spokespeople availablePress release 08 Jan 2017
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Nigeria: 1,000 days since Chibok girls' abduction - Govermnent and Boko Haram must free all abducteesPress release 08 Jan 2017
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Why Edward Snowden should be pardonedHe stood up for our rights, starting a global debate on mass surveillance that changed the world – yet whistleblower Edward Snowden still faces up to 30 years in prison. We continue to call on the US president to pardon him, rather than punish him for…
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UK should halt arms exports to Iraq if there's a risk of abusive militias acquiring themPress release 05 Jan 2017
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USA: Angola 3's Albert Woodfox calls on Obama to release jailed Native American Leonard PeltierPress release 05 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Twenty activists arrested after peaceful sit-in in the DRC
Twenty activists of the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) were arrested during a peaceful sit-in in the city of Goma on 21 December.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist's bail revoked for commenting on Facebook in Thailand
Activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa may face up to 15 years’ imprisonment for posting a news article online.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three freed, four more arbitrarily detained in South Sudan
Two of the 30 men who had been in arbitrary detention in the prison at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters were released.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Missing lawyer is said to be in police custody in China
Beijing human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, last heard from on 21 November, is said to be in held in police custody for allegedly “leaking state secrets”.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017
