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Uganda: Authorities must lift social media block that violates human rightsPress release 13 Jan 2021
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USA: letter to 3,500 mayors and governors calls for tighter security ahead of inaugurationIn response to the events of last week and in anticipation of more gatherings by white supremacists ahead of the inauguration, Amnesty International USA has sent a letter to 3,500 US mayors and governors calling on them to protect people from armed…
Press release 13 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action outcome: Guinean pro-democracy activist is free
Saïkou Yaya Diallo, the legal coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution freed from prison.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jan 2021 -
Urgent action outcome: Opposition members released
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jan 2021 -
Israel/Palestine: Hebron activist faces long jail sentenceAn Israeli military judge in the occupied West Bank is expected to give his verdict tomorrow against Issa Amro, a prominent Palestinian activist facing politically-motivated charges for his peaceful activism against Israel’s military occupation and…
Press release 05 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Defenders Released
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released and are now safely home.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Dec 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Crimean Tatar rights defender sentenced
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentenced by a Russian military court on 16 September.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2020 -
Hong Kong: Pro-democracy activist warns of 'bloody 2021' ahead of Amnesty Northern Ireland event live from Hong KongOriginal planned speaker Joshua Wong has now been jailed by pro-Beijing authorities
Press release 03 Dec 2020 -
Jordan: Yemeni teenager “not guilty” over speech chargesOn 28 July 2020, the Jordanian criminal court deemed Tujan al-Bukhaiti, “not guilty” over charges of “blasphemy”.
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Northern Ireland: Amnesty condemns threats against journalists at Sunday World newspaperPress release 28 Nov 2020
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Northern Ireland: Amnesty hails 'victory for press freedom' in case of arrested journalistsPolice agree to delete data wrongly seized from journalists and pay substantial damages
Press release 27 Nov 2020 -
Northern Ireland: Journalist Patricia Devlin threatens legal action against PSNI for failing to investigate threats
Northern Ireland journalist Patricia Devlin has written to the Chief Constable of the PSNI threatening legal action unless he provides assurances that the PSNI will conduct an immediate and effective investigation of violent threats made against her and her baby son.
Press release 22 Nov 2020 -
USA: State Department's attack on BDS movement violates free speechResponse to the US State Department designating the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement antisemitic earlier today
Press release 19 Nov 2020 -
Northern Ireland: Amnesty welcomes call for halt to use of spithoods & review of BLM prosecutionsPress release 12 Nov 2020
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Hong Kong: Charges against student activist Tony Chung 'expose Government's disdain for freedom of expression'Former leader of group Studentlocalism, charged under new national security law with secession, money laundering and conspiracy to publish seditious material
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India: Counter-terror raids on journalists and human rights organisations signal 'alarming' escalation in crackdown on dissentRaids in Jammu and Kashmir conducted based on accusations that the organisations have been using funding from India and abroad ‘for secessionist and terrorist activities’
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Urgent Action outcome: Yana Antonova sentenced to community service
Yana Antonova, a pediatrician and a human rights defender from Krasnodar, southern Russia, was convicted on 2 October.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Oct 2020 -
Russia: activist jailed for Putin puppet demo should be freedAmnesty International is calling for the immediate and unconditional release of Aleksandr Shabarchin - a Russian activist who was jailed over a satirical video featuring a homemade mannequin of Vladimir Putin.
Press release 26 Oct 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Azimjan Azkarov died in prison
Azimjan Askarov died on 25 July in prison in Kyrgyzstan after showing symptoms of Covid-19.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Oct 2020 -
USA: police have failed to protect protesters from violence - new reportLaw-enforcement agencies across the USA are failing to facilitate people’s fundamental right to freedom of peaceful assembly or to protect protests and counter-protests from violent disruption by armed groups.
Press release 23 Oct 2020
