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Surviving the ongoing crisis in VenezuelaThe death toll is rising in Venezuela. Peaceful protesting has become a deadly activity. Our Venezuela Director blogs.
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A short history of human rights and children’s booksBlog post 24 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action update: Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005
Ledell Lee was executed in Arkansas on 20 April shortly before the death warrant in his case expired at midnight. He was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1993.
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Amnesty welcomes landmark Citizens’ Assembly result and calls for abortion reform across IrelandPress release 24 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Virginia governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 April, the Governor of Virginia commuted the death sentence of Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national who was scheduled to be executed on 25 April and who has continued to maintain his innocence.
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Urgent Action update: Iranian human rights defender on hunger strike
Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since 8 April. She is protesting the suspended prison sentences imposed on two of her sisters, Hanieh and Ensieh, for “insulting public officers on duty”.
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Nigeria: prison reportedly erects gallows sparking imminent execution fearsPress release 21 Apr 2017
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Football players and celebrity fans back Amnesty’s ‘Football Welcomes’ this weekendPress release 21 Apr 2017
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Arkansas, USA: execution of Ledell Lee was 'shameful'Press release 21 Apr 2017
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Arkansas, USA: relief at blocking of executionsPress release 20 Apr 2017
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Amnesty warns against use of 'toxic language' during election campaignPress release 20 Apr 2017
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Football Welcomes: Clubs to celebrate refugee footballers in new Amnesty initiative this weekendPress release 20 Apr 2017
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The Co-operative Bank – rethinking civil society account closuresBlog post 20 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action: Detained opposition leader accused of treason in Zambia
Leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Mr Hakainde Hichilema was arrested on 10 April.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Continued paramilitary presence in Chocó, Colombia
Residents of Puerto Lleras, Jiguamiandó collective territory in the department of Chocó, report threats and raids from paramilitaries near the Humanitarian Zone of Pueblo Nuevo, putting all the inhabitants at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Stay of execution for Don Davis in Arkansas
The execution of Don Davis, scheduled for 17 April in Arkansas, did not go ahead. Minutes before midnight, when the death warrant was set to expire, the US Supreme Court refused to lift the stay issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court that afternoon.
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Urgent Action: University lecturer in Uganda must be released
Dr Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan university lecturer, was arrested on 7 April and subsequently charged with insulting the president and violating his right to privacy.
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Egypt: proposed new laws will increase repressionPress release 19 Apr 2017
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Urgent Action update: Newspaper threatened for reports on abductions in Russia
The staff of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and journalists supporting them have been threatened following the newspaper’s publication of reports about the abduction and torture of gay men in Chechnya.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017
