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Urgent action update: Vote on the right to abortion pending in Dominican Rep.
The Dominican Republic Senate was due to vote on 25 July on a reform to the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Jul 2016 -
Senior role for Indonesian general implicated in East Timor crimes shows 'contempt for human rights'Press release 27 Jul 2016
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Brazil: Amnesty International activists deliver 'body bags' to Rio 2016 organisersPress release 27 Jul 2016
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Indonesia: 14 people could be executed this weekendPrisoners charged with drugs offenses face death by firing squad on 'execution island'
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Yemen: Blocks to humanitarian aid delivery violate international law, causing 'dreadful suffering'Press release 26 Jul 2016
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Thailand: Drop charges against Amnesty chair targeted for exposing torturePress release 26 Jul 2016
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Urgent Action: Minority group's protest met with violence in Vietnam
A spontaneous demonstration by ethnic and religious minority Ede in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam on 14 July was violently suppressed, resulting in injuries to around 20 demonstrators.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Five political activists at risk of torture in Pakistan
Five political activists; four from the Muttahida Quami Movement political party, one from the Pak Sarzameen Party, are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment while awaiting trial.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Fear for safety of human rights defender in Zimbabwe
There is fear for the safety of Evan Mawarire, a pastor and leader of the #ThisFlag social media movement in Zimbabwe, who called for a national stay-away.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: One dead, two released, 30 still detained in South Sudan
Loreom Joseph Longie who had been arbitrarily detained at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in Jebel neighbourhood since September 2014, passed away on 17 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Imminent round of executions in Indonesia
Two death row prisoners were moved on 24 and 25 July to Nusakambangan prison island, where 13 executions were carried out in 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: 13 activists charged, held incommunicado in Mauritania
Four more activists from the anti-slavery organization Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA) were arrested on 8 and 9 July, just days after the arrest of nine others.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Stateless lawyer deported in Bahrain
Bahraini lawyer, Taimoor Karimi, was deported from Bahrain to Iraq on 26 June after his expulsion sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court on 23 May.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Religious scholar detained without charge in Sudan
Yousef Abdallah Abker, a religious scholar, was arrested on 14 July by security agents after a sermon he gave in early July. He has been detained since then without any charge.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Jul 2016 -
The aftermath of the failed Turkey coup: Torture, beatings and rapeThe Turkish government has embarked on a crackdown of exceptional proportions. More than 10,000 people have been detained since the coup and we have evidence that many are being subjected to torture and rape.
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Turkey: Arrest warrant for 42 journalists 'brazen purge'Press release 25 Jul 2016
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South Africa: Dismissal of eight journalists a cynical and sinister ploy to entrench fearPress release 25 Jul 2016
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Turkey: Independent monitors must be allowed to access detainees amid torture allegationsPress release 24 Jul 2016
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Afghanistan: Kabul attack shows contempt for human lifePress release 23 Jul 2016
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UN: Narrow national self-interest must not endanger global refugee dealPress release 22 Jul 2016
