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Urgent Action update: Ahmed Abdullah's detention order renewed in Egypt
Prisoner of conscience and human rights defender, Dr Ahmed Abdullah, had his detention renewed for a further 15 days on 7 May. He has been detained since 25 April solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Appeal Date Set for a nine-month jail sentence in Malaysia
Veteran activist, film maker and former political prisoner, Hishamuddin Rais, faces up to nine months in prison under the Sedition Act in Malaysia for his peaceful calls for electoral reform. The final appeal date has been set for 16 May.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ahmed Abdullah's detention order renewed in Egypt
Prisoner of conscience and human rights defender, Dr Ahmed Abdullah, had his detention renewed for a further 15 days on 7 May. He has been detained since 25 April solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
17 May 2016 -
Northern Ireland: abortion statistics show law failing women – 833 travel to GB in 2015Press release 17 May 2016
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Kenya: Investigate police crackdown against protestersPress release 17 May 2016
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Peru hike for human rightsBlog post 17 May 2016
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Northern Ireland politicians owe LGBT community apology for failure to deliver equalityPress release 16 May 2016
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Northern Ireland: Redress scheme must be part of Programme for Government - child abuse survivorsPress release 16 May 2016
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The UK country where women face life in prison for an abortionThere is a near-total ban on abortion in Northern Ireland, even in cases of rape, incest and fatal foetal abnormality. Women face life imprisonment for a health service freely provided on the NHS everywhere else in the UK. Find out why abortion in…
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Nigeria: Amnesty rejects false military claims against Giwa Barracks reportPress release 13 May 2016
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Iranian teenager tortured into 'confessing' faces execution at weekendPress release 13 May 2016
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Syria: armed opposition group committing war crimes in Aleppo - new evidencePress release 13 May 2016
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Boko Haram Summit: Human rights must be foundation of regional responsePress release 13 May 2016
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Why children’s books are importantSF Said, award-winning children’s author and judge of the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Honour, blogs on the importance of children's literature to change lives and shape imaginations.
Blog post 12 May 2016 -
Northern Ireland: Amnesty tentative welcome for moves to change law on abortion and marriage equalityPress release 12 May 2016
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Israel should drop latest 'ludicrous' charges against nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai VanunuPress release 11 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Environmental defender must be released in Mexico
Ildefonso Zamora, an environment and territory defender from an Indigenous community in central Mexico, has been detained since November 2015 in an apparent attempt to stop him from speaking out against logging in the Great Water Forest in his ancestral…
Urgent action outcomes 11 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender threatened in Venezuela
Venezuelan human rights defender Humberto Prado Sifontes has been threatened for his work examining prisons. Humberto, his family and his colleagues from the NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones) are at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 11 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Eight students in Sudan arrested, whereabouts unknown
National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) agents raided the office of a prominent human rights lawyer, Nabil Adib, in Khartoum on 5 May and arrested 10 people.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Russian blogger imprisoned after appeal rejected
On 20 April political activist and blogger Darya Poliudova arrived in the open prison colony in Novorossiisk, Krasnodar Krai, where she will be serving her sentence after her appeal was rejected on 30 March.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016
