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Urgent Action good news: Lucha activist released without charge in the DRC
Musasa Tshibanda, an activist from the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was released on 8 February.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Paramilitary incursion in Humanitarian Zone in Colombia
A group of paramilitaries entered the Humanitarian Zone of Nueva Esperanza en Dios in the Cacarica river basin in north-west Colombia looking for several individuals which they claimed were on a death list.
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Urgent Action update: Still no information on hundreds of missing Rohingya
Four months after the launch of major security operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of detained Rohingya are still unknown.
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Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders held incommunicado in Vietnam
Within 10 days of each other, three unassociated Vietnamese human rights defenders were arrested in January and are currently being held in incommunicado pre-trial detention.
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India: Minister's claim to have ordered torture must be investigatedPress release 14 Feb 2017
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Bahrain at 'tipping point' as crackdown continuesPress release 14 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian writer Nazeer al-Majed has been held in incommunicado detention since 18 January after being sentenced by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh to seven years in prison. He is a prisoner of conscience at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
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Urgent Action: Trans man and daughter threatened by police in Venezuela
Transgender lawyer Samantha Seijas was threatened by a police officer from the Aragua Police Force, in central Venezuela, while filing a complaint in a police station accompanied by his daughter. Fears exist for their safety.
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Urgent Action good news: Algerian journalist Hassan Bouras released
Algerian journalist Hassan Bouras was released on 17 January after his sentence was reduced to a six-month suspended prison term on appeal.
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End Action Algeria: Journalist Mohamed Tamalt dies in detention in Algeria
British-Algerian freelance journalist Mohamed Tamalt, 41, died in custody, on 11 December 2016, in Mohamed Lamine Debaghine University Hospital in Bab El Oued, Algiers, over 5 months after his arrest.
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Just one unaccompanied child refugee brought to Northern Ireland under Dubs schemePress release 10 Feb 2017
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Syria: President Assad should provide information on mass hangingsPress release 10 Feb 2017
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USA: Trump's possible suspension of conflict minerals law is 'shameless' proposalPress release 10 Feb 2017
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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.
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Urgent Action update: Four activists released but still charged in Indonesia
Hiskia Meage, Emanuel Ukago, Panus Hesegem and William Wim, detained for peaceful political demonstrations on 19 December 2016 in Manado, North Sulawesi, have been released by the police. They are still being charged with rebellion (makar) and could face…
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Egypt: closure of renowned torture rehabilitation centre is 'shocking'Press release 09 Feb 2017
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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: Crimean lawyer released but still at risk in Ukraine
Human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was released on 5 February in Simferopol, Crimea, having served 10 days in administrative detention to which he was sentenced as reprisal for his human rights work. Kurbedinov vowed to continue his work.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Feb 2017
