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Death penalty to resume in the MaldivesNearly 17,000 of you joined us in urging the Maldives not to start executing people again after 60 years.
05 Jan 2018 -
2017: A 'bad year to be brave' as activists are targeted around the worldAmnesty decries a pattern of attacks on activists around the world in 2017
Press release 27 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Former POC feared to be in detention again
The whereabouts of Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains a mystery after he has been missing for over three months.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Confined communities in Riosucio, Chocó
Several Embera Indigenous communities and the Afro-descendent community of Taparal find themselves confined and terrified
Urgent action outcomes 15 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Pakistani Activist's whereabouts unknown
Raza Khan, a Pakistani peace activist, has not been seen or heard from since 2 December
Urgent action outcomes 15 Dec 2017 -
Iraq: 38 hanged in mass execution for 'terrorism' changesPress release 14 Dec 2017
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Urgent Action update: Detained rights lawyer further ill-treated in China
Sixty-year-old human rights lawyer Li Yuhan reported to her lawyer that she was left unconscious and unattended for hours
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Papuan worker in Indonesia disappeared since 7 November
Martinus Beanal, a Papuan worker has disappeared since 7 November in the midst of alleged escalated armed clashes.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Mother and son risk being sent to prison camp in North Korea
A woman who was identified as Lee Su-jung in China and her son were forcibly returned to North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Polish government attempts further control of judiciary
On 22 November, proposals to increase the government’s control of the judiciary were put before the Polish Parliament.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Investigation into human rights defender closed in Malaysia
The Malaysian police have officially closed all investigations into Maria Chin Abdullah.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detained couple's health critically deteriorating in Egypt
Ola al-Qaradawy and her husband Hossam Khalaf have been arrested on unfound charges and held in poor prison conditions.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Sudanese student held in solitary confinement
Naser Aldeen Mukhtar Mohamed he is still being held without charge in solitary confinement at the NISS detention centre.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer in China sentenced to 2 years in prison
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been sentenced to two year of imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2017 -
Amnesty uncovers 'brutal' illegal torture equipment at Paris arms fairBanned spiked batons, spiked electric-shock forks, electric-shock vests & heavy leg-irons on sale from Chinese companies
Press release 22 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Rights lawyer abused and at risk of torture in China
Li Yuhan, a sixty-year-old human rights lawyer, has been formally arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Chechen asylum-seeker feared disappeared in Russian Federation
Chechen asylum-seeker Imran Salamov, may have been subjected to an enforced disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mother and child in China at risk of forcible return to North Korea
Lee Su-jung and her son are currently in detention in China and are at risk of forcible return to North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: 30 relatives of Uighur human rights activist arbitrarily detained in China
Chinese authorities have detained up to 30 relatives of Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Execution called off in death chamber in USA
The execution of Alva Campbell was called off on 15 November and the governor set a new date of for 5 June 2019.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017
