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Urgent Action: Death sentence upheld on appeal for 15 men in Saudi Arabia
The families of 15 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death learned on 23 July that the Court of Appeal had upheld their sentences. The 15 men are accused of spying for Iran and were sentenced after a grossly unfair mass trial.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained journalist faints in overheated prison in Azerbaijan
Independent Azerbaijani journalist Aziz Orujov has been held in detention on fabricated charges since 2 May. He is being kept in inhumane conditions. On 23 July he fainted as a result of the sweltering heat in the prison cell.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists arrested for Tiananmen commemoration in China
Two activists, Ding Yajun and Shi Tingfu, have been formally charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Amnesty recommends top summer reads for kids and teensPress release 31 Jul 2017
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Turkey: Release of seven journalists 'a step forward' as colleagues continue to languish in jailPress release 29 Jul 2017
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Russian journalists fear for their lives28 Jul 2017
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Report: Sexual violence in South SudanSexual violence in South Sudan is an epidemic. Read our report now.
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UK/Turkey: Boris Johnson calls for release of jailed activists, including Amnesty staffAmnesty welcomes call from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for the release of detained Turkish human rights activists - including Amnesty Turkey's Director İdil Eser, and Chair, Taner Kiliç.
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Venezuela: Ban on protests may lead to mass human rights violationsPress release 28 Jul 2017
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Israeli forces attack peaceful crowds of Palestinians at al-Aqsa mosquePress release 27 Jul 2017
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Pakistan: 'Horrific' revenge rape order must prompt urgent reformsPress release 27 Jul 2017
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LGBTI rights are a work in progressIt's fifty years since the UK legislated for a partial decriminalisation of homosexuality. We’ve come a long way since yet we are still a long way off a truly equal society for LGBTI+ people both here in the UK and globally.
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Trump's ban on transgender people in military is 'based on bigotry'Press release 26 Jul 2017
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UK: petrol/diesel car ban - child labourers 'must not pay the price'Press release 26 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Imprisoned journalist must be released in Ukraine
Stanislav Aseev, a freelance journalist, who was missing for several weeks, is held by the Russia-backed separatists from the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) in eastern Ukraine. They accuse him of “espionage”.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activists deported from Saudi Arabia detained in Sudan
Activists Elgassim Mohamed Seed Ahmed, Elwaleed Imam Hassan Taha and Alaa Aldin al-Difana were deported from Saudi Arabia to Sudan on 11 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Multiple concerns as Missouri execution set
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for a 1998 murder. He maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: 14 Saudi Arabian men could face execution
The families of 14 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death fear that they are at risk of execution after they were transferred to Riyadh on 15 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender facing intimidation in Nigeria
Human rights defender Maurice Fangnon was detained at the Nigerian Police Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department in Abuja accused of providing police with false information that a member of a powerful royal family was responsible for…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: 14 Saudi Arabian men at imminent risk of execution
Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their families learned on 23 July that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017
