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Urgent Action update: Detainee in Venezuela held incommunicado again
After being disappeared for 23 days, Raúl Isaías Baduel is once again being held incommunicado at the National Intelligence Service facilities in Caracas, denied access to his family and lawyers. His family is concerned for his physical and mental…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender remain in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was removed from solitary confinement following a two-day hunger strike in protest at her conditions of detention. She is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death in Iran
On 27 August a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri to death for “spreading corruption on earth” for establishing the spiritual group Erfan-e Halgheh. He has been held in solitary confinement for over six years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Indigenous peoples in Chocó danger in Colombia
Clashes between paramilitary groups, the National Liberation Army and state security forces continue to violate the rights of the Wounaan and Embera Indigenous peoples in Chocó, western Colombia, generating an imminent humanitarian and security crisis.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Maldives to resume executions by September
According to statements by the Maldives President, the death penalty would be implemented 'by the end of September'. If carried out, these would be the first executions in the country in over 60 years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Severely-ill Iranian Kurdish woman denied care
Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian, serving a life sentence, is severely ill and requires specialized medical care outside prison. However, the authorities have persistently refused to transfer her to a hospital, apparently to punish her and extract…
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2017 -
Syria: Tens of thousands of disappeared must not be forgottenPress release 29 Aug 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Governor of Missouri stays execution and orders inquiry in USAOn 22 August, the governor of Missouri issued a stay of execution for Marcellus Williams who was due to be put to death later that day. The governor will appoint a Board of Inquiry to review the case and make a recommendation on clemency.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Arkansas governor to commute death sentence in USA
On 25 August, the Governor of Arkansas announced his intent to commute the death sentence of Jason McGehee, who had been scheduled for execution on 27 April, when he received a stay from a federal judge, and the parole board recommended clemency. The…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Aug 2017 -
Florida conducts first execution in a year and a halfPress release 25 Aug 2017
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Florida execution machine kills againAlthough much of the US has turned against the death penalty and Florida governor Rick Scott promised ‘bold, positive change’, the state just conducted its first judicial killing in eighteen months.
25 Aug 2017 -
BRAVE Campaign Training ToolkitThis training pack has been created by Amnesty International UK on the BRAVE global campaign which campaigns to strengthen the recognition and protection of human rights defenders.
Teaching resource 24 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Missing human rights defender at risk of torture in Vietnam
Former prisoner of conscience, Nguyễn Bắc Truyển was last seen on 30 July 2017 after dropping off his wife outside her place of work in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Aug 2017 -
USA: Florida set to carry out first execution in year-and-a-half this weekPress release 21 Aug 2017
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Urgent Action: Detainee's fate and whereabouts unknown in Venezuela
Raúl Isaías Baduel was unexpectedly taken from his cell at Ramo Verde National Military Detention Centre, Caracas, at dawn on 8 August 2017. There has been no information regarding his whereabouts since.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Belarus sentences two men to death
Ihar Hershankou and Siamion Berazhnoy were convicted and sentenced to death by the Mahiliou Regional Court, in eastern Belarus, on 21 July 2017. Theirs are the second and third death sentences imposed in Belarus in 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Pakistani defender forcibly disappeared
Human rights defender and Convenor of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, Punhal Sario, has been forcibly disappeared in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Aug 2017 -
Update: Alireza TajikiAlireza Tajiki was just 16 years old when he was sentenced to death. He is now 21 and about to be executed in the next few hours. Join us to demand the Iranian authorities stop his execution immediately.
09 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two Palestinian women in administrative detention in Israel
Member of the Palestinian parliament Khalida Jarrar and women’s union leader Khitam Saafin have been held without being charged or tried for 36 days.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Forcibly returned activist in China held incommunicado
Dong Guangping’s court hearing scheduled for April 2017 has been cancelled by authorities with no reason provided.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Aug 2017
