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UPDATE: Hamid Ahmadi's execution has been stayed!Hamid Ahmadi is facing execution on Saturday 18 February for a crime he was charged with as a teenager - after being tortured in to a 'confession'. Tell Iran: don't execute Hamid Ahmadi.
Blog post 09 Feb 2017 -
Kenya: Historic ruling blocks closure of Dadaab refugee campPress release 09 Feb 2017
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Nazanin: A letter to my daughterNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker, was at the airport returning to the UK when she was detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and put in an Iranian prison. This is a translated version a letter Nazanin wrote to her daughter…
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Urgent Action update: Activist still held despite rejected indictment in Turkey
Fashion designer and LGBTI activist Barbaros Şansal remains in pre-trial detention since 3 January for allegedly ‘inciting the public to hatred or hostility’, despite a court rejecting the indictment drawn up in his case. He must be freed immediately and…
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Dakota pipeline, USA: army decision to allow construction is 'unlawful'Press release 08 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Iranian academic could be sentenced to death
Iranian academic specializing in disaster medicine Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden detained in Iran since 25 April 2016, has been threatened with the death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Refugee criminally charged for seeking asylum in Papua New Guinea
Loghman Sawari, an Iranian refugee, faces criminal charges in Papua New Guinea for allegedly using false information to obtain a passport to seek asylum in Fiji.
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Kenya: High Court should declare closure of Dadaab refugee camp 'unconstitutional'Press release 08 Feb 2017
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UA update: Activists reunite with families; one still missing in Pakistan
Human rights activists Salman Haider, Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, and Ahmed Raza Naseer returned home between 27 – 29th January after being subjected to a suspected enforced disappearance in early January by security forces in Pakistan.
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Urgent Action update: Opposition member facing new charges in Congo
Additional charges were brought against Paulin Makaya on 6 January in connection with a shooting at the central prison of Brazzaville on 29 December 2016, while six of his acquaintances were visiting.
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Syria: 13,000 secretly hanged in Saydnaya military prison - shocking new reportPress release 07 Feb 2017
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The human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination in Syrian prisonSaydnaya Prison is where the Syrian government quietly slaughters its own people. It is a place carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately exterminate those trapped inside.
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Colombia: Spike in killings as activists targeted amid peace processPress release 07 Feb 2017
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Kenya: End media crackdown and allow British journalist to returnPress release 07 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Increasing smear campaign against defenders in Honduras
International organization Global Witness, along with Honduran organizations MILPAH, COPINH and CEHPRODEC are facing a smear campaign against them for their work defending land, territory and environmental rights in the country.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
USA: Majority of Americans oppose Trump’s Muslim Ban as its impact becomes clearerPress release 06 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Paramilitary build-up in peace community in Colombia
Residents in several hamlets in or near the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in north-western Colombia continue to report the presence of paramilitaries.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detainee held incommunicado in Venezuela
Retired general Raúl Isaías Baduel is currently in detention and has had no contact with his lawyers or family since 22 January.
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Urgent Action: Prisoners of conscience could face life in prison in Indonesia
Four Papuan political activists have been detained since 19 December 2016 in Manado, North Sulawesi Province for “rebellion” (makar).
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Zimbabwe human rights defender re-arrested
Pastor Evan Mawarire, a human rights defender and leader of the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe, was arrested again on 1 February on arrival at Harare International Airport.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017
