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Urgent Action: Arbitrary detainees on hunger strike in Venezuela
The physical integrity and lives of 14 police officers arbitrarily detained for politically motivated reasons are at risk in Venezuela, since they began a hunger strike 23 days ago to demand that authorities execute their pending release warrant.
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Urgent Action update: Congress rejects regressive abortion reform in Dominican Republic
On 11 July, the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Congress voted to reject proposed reforms to the Criminal Code that failed to decriminalize abortion in limited circumstances and continued to violate the rights of women and girls.
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Urgent Action update: In Singapore, Malaysian man hanged in hurried, secretive manner
Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national was executed at dawn on 14 July 2017 at Changi Prison, in Singapore. Contrary to international standards, he was sentenced to the mandatory death penalty in 2012 for a drug related offence.
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Urgent Action: Amendments threatening rights in Poland must be stopped
Two legislative amendments that would undermine the right to an effective remedy and the right to a fair trial have been adopted by the Polish Parliament on 15 July. It is now in the hands of the President to refuse to sign these amendments.
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Alan Duncan's remarks on Turkey arrests welcome, now UK must join call for releasePress release 19 Jul 2017
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Bahrain: terrorism charges against human rights activist Ebtisam al-Saegh condemnedPress release 19 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Juvenille offender's death sentence upheld in Saudi Arabia
An appeal court has upheld the death sentence against Abdulkareem al-Hawaj, a Shi’a man who was convicted of offences committed when he was 16 years old. The court appears to have based its sentence on forced “confessions”.
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Lebanon: thousands at risk as prime minister announces Arsal security operationPress release 18 Jul 2017
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The fight for Syria chemical attack justice continuesOver 40,000 of you signed our petition urging the UN to investigate the horrific chemical attack that killed more than 80 people.
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Turkey: Jailing of activists, including Amnesty director, a crushing blow for rightsPress release 18 Jul 2017
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Mansour's fight for justice'Now, the tables are turned. He is wanted for crimes against humanity. It was a moment I’d waited for a very long time.' Read about Mansour's fight to bring Syria's war criminals to justice.
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Urgent Action: Reveal whereabouts of four Kurdish men in Iran
Four men from Iran’s Kurdish minority have been subjected to enforced disappearance since their arrests on 23 and 24 June.
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Urgent Action: Bahraini prisoner of conscience in detention
On 24 May, the Bahraini Court of Appeal halved the prison sentence of Dr. Taha al-Dirazi from six to three months. He was immediately arrested to begin serving the sentence.
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Urgent Action good news: Three labour activists released on bail in China
Hua Haifeng, Li Zhao, and Su Heng were released on bail on 28 June 2017 after being criminally detained while investigating labour conditions at Huajian shoe factories, which produce shoes for Ivanka Trump’s brand, among others.
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Urgent Action update: Woman convicted under unfair anti-abortion law in El Salvador
While Salvadoran legislators have, for months, been postponing the debate on the Criminal Code reform that would decriminalize abortion, another rape survivor has been sentenced to 30 years’ imprisonment for having suffered pregnancy-related…
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Urgent Action update: New sentence against human rights defender in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to two years in prison on 10 July by a Bahraini court, and was convicted of “publishing and disseminating rumours and false news relating to the internal situation in the country” in relation to TV…
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Urgent Action update: Senate to vote on weakened draft abortion law in Chile
The Chilean Senate has begun discussing a proposed law aimed at decriminalizing abortion under specific circumstances, and is set to vote on the law next week.
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Urgent Action update: Ten years in prison for human rights defender in Vietnam
Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known as blogger Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom), was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on 29 June 2017 for “conducting propaganda” against the state under Article 88 of the Penal Code.
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Urgent Action: Sudanese activist at imminent risk of deportation from Saudi Arabia
Sudanese political activist Alaa Aldin al-Difana is at imminent risk of being deported from Saudi Arabia to Sudan, where he would be at serious risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
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Urgent Action update: Detained defender interrogated continuously in Bahrain
Bahraini human rights defender, Ebtisam al-Saegh, has been under continuous and lengthy interrogation since her arrest on 3 July when she also started a hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017
