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Urgent Action: Three Laos activists held incommunicado
Three Lao human rights activists have been arrested in what may constitute enforced disappearances. They remain in incommunicado detention since they appeared on national television on 25 May.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent action update: Two year sentence for taking part in a protest
Congolese political opposition member Paulin Makaya was sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of 3,800 Euros for taking part in an unauthorized protest. Paulin Makaya is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Whereabouts of Burundian journalist unknown
Jean Bigirimana was last seen in Bugarama, Muramvya province, on 22 July. There are indications that Jean Bigirimana was arrested by security forces. The police spokesperson has however denied these allegations.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes justice minister call on undercover police inquiryPress release 04 Aug 2016
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Child detention: the powers that the Home Office won't let goOn the last day of business before Parliament’s summer break, the government quietly slipped out a statement about the continued immigration detention of children - a practice that can cause significant physical and psychological harm lasting long after…
Blog post 04 Aug 2016 -
China: Human rights lawyer's conviction denounced as 'political charade'Press release 04 Aug 2016
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Lighting a candle for Here I StandBlog post 04 Aug 2016
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Iran hangs teenage student in first child offender execution of the yearStudent Hassan Afshar is the first child offender to be executed in Iran this year
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US state of Delaware's abolition of the death penalty puts it on 'right side of history'Press release 03 Aug 2016
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UN Refugee Summit talks end in abject failurePress release 03 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action update: Four executed, ten still at risk in Indonesia
Four men were executed in Indonesia on 29 July for drug-related offences. Nine other men and one woman received a last-minute temporary stay of execution after they were also taken to the execution grounds.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender at risk of torture in Pakistan
Human rights defender Wahid Baloch may have been subjected to enforced disappearance by state security forces in Karachi, Pakistan, on the afternoon of 26 July. His family does not know where he is or what has happened to him.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian prisoner of conscience ends hunger strike
Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, a prisoner of conscience, ended her hunger strike after 20 days on 16 July when she was allowed a 30-minute telephone call with her children.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Chinese activist on hunger strike at grave risk
Jailed Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) has been on hunger strike since 9 May in protest of his ill-treatment by the authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian man released from death row
Ehsan Shah Ghasemi, a 25-year-old Iranian man who had been on death row since October 2014, was released from prison on 13 March after he was pardoned by the victim’s family in September 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Two activists still detained in Kazakhstan
On 29 July, the Atyrau City Court in Kazakhstan ruled to keep prisoners of conscience Maks Bokaev and Talgat Ayan in pre-trial detention until 31 August.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Scottish Conservative leader urges marriage equality in Northern Ireland Pride lecturePress release 02 Aug 2016
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Scottish Conservative leader urges marriage equality in Northern Ireland Pride lecturePress release 02 Aug 2016
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Brazil: Daily shootouts and alarming rise in police killings puts Olympic legacy at riskPress release 02 Aug 2016
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Turkey: response to President Erdoğan’s speech challenging Amnesty's torture findingsDetainees are being tortured after the attempted coup in Turkey, but the country's president will not admit this
Press release 02 Aug 2016
