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Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience ends hunger strike
Human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor ended a month-long hunger strike in mid-April.
Urgent action outcomes 29 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Defamation charges used to silence dissent
Police charged prominent activists Parit Penguin Chiwarak, Sirawit ‘Ja New’ Seritiwat, and Phayaw Akkahad with defamation
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Defamation charges for exposing labour abuse
Human rights defenders, activists, journalists and former employees are facing criminal defamation lawsuits for comments.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Constant surveillance impacts lawyer’s health
Human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong remains under heavy surveillance, despite having been released from prison in February
Urgent action outcomes 22 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Drop charges against human rights defender
US Border Patrol agents arrested Dr. Scott Warren, a 36-year old Human Rights Defender and humanitarian aid volunteer.
Urgent action outcomes 22 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender fears for safety
On 26 April, two unknown men on motorbikes, presumably belonging to a local gang, circled the office of Pierre Espérance.
Urgent action outcomes 20 May 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Journalist officially charged with cyber libel
Maria Ressa, human rights defender, was formally charged in court for one count of cyber libel.
Urgent action outcomes 20 May 2019 -
Syria: at least 15 hospitals targeted in Idlib and Hama since beginning of May‘This is part of a well-established pattern targeting medical facilities’
Press release 17 May 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Women activists face prison sentences
11 Saudi women activists on trial before the Criminal Court in Riyadh risk being sentenced to prison.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2019 -
Libya: new evidence of possible war crimes during Haftar's Tripoli offensive‘The warring parties have displayed a shameful disregard for civilian safety’
Press release 16 May 2019 -
British man facing up to five years in prison for documenting police abuse in CalaisTom Ciotkowski was observing French riot police preventing volunteers from distributing food to migrants and refugees in Calais
Press release 15 May 2019 -
Israel: Amnesty and New York University in legal action to prevent spyware attacks‘NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human rights abuses’
Press release 13 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Stop harassment of human rights activist
On 6 May at around 6am the police raided the home of prominent human rights defender Elżbieta Podleśna.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2019 -
Urgent Action outcome: Activist released after being rearrested
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was released on 29 April after 30 days in administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 09 May 2019 -
Urgent Action: Fears of activist’s enforced disappearance
Indigenous rights activist Michael Chakma has been missing since 9 April, when he was on his way to Dhaka from Kanchpur.
Urgent action outcomes 08 May 2019 -
Urgent Action correction: Prisoner denied full medical check-up
On 25 February 2019, the Court of Cassation upheld Hajer Mansoor Hassan’s conviction and three-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2019 -
Urgent Action correction: End attacks against human rights defenders
Cristina Palabay was warned by an anonymous source that her and several others are targeted to be killed this year.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2019 -
Ecuador: women environmental defenders in life-threatening danger due to government failingsNew Amnesty International report shows Ecuadorian authorities are failing to prevent attacks against Amazonian Women environmental defenders
Press release 30 Apr 2019 -
The women risking their lives to save the planetThese Amazonian women are risking their lives to protect the world’s largest rainforest, defying huge political and economic interests.
Blog post 30 Apr 2019 -
Urgent Action: End attacks against human rights defenders
Cristina Palabay was warned by an anonymous source that her and several others are targeted to be killed this year.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Apr 2019
