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Urgent Action: Forced disappearance in Mapuche community in Argentina
National Security Forces violently repressed the Mapuche community Pu Lof en Resistencia, in Chubut, Argentina, and a 28-
Urgent action outcomes 09 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Judicial reforms in Poland must not threaten fair trial
On 24 July President Duda vetoed two of the three controversial legislative amendments regarding judicial reforms but signed a third amendment.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Syrian human rights defender executed
On 1 August, the family of Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi received the news that he was extrajudicially executed in October 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Maldives must halt plans to carry out first executions in more than 60 yearsPress release 02 Aug 2017
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Urgent: Stop the executions about to happen in the MaldivesWhile countries around world are abolishing the death penalty, the Maldives are reinstating it for the first time in 60 years.
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Kenya: gruesome murder of election official must be investigatedPress release 31 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Activists arrested for Tiananmen commemoration in China
Two activists, Ding Yajun and Shi Tingfu, have been formally charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Death sentence upheld on appeal for 15 men in Saudi Arabia
The families of 15 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death learned on 23 July that the Court of Appeal had upheld their sentences. The 15 men are accused of spying for Iran and were sentenced after a grossly unfair mass trial.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: First Ohio execution in three and a half years
Ronald Phillips was executed in Ohio on the morning of 26 July for a murder committed in 1993 when he was 19 years old. This was the first execution in Ohio since January 2014.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Israeli civilians abducted for more than 2 years
Avera Mangistu and Hisham al-Sayed have been missing respectively since 7 September 2014 and 20 April 2015 in the Gaza Strip. The two Israeli civilians suffer from serious mental health conditions.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Russian journalists fear for their lives28 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action: 14 Saudi Arabian men could face execution
The families of 14 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death fear that they are at risk of execution after they were transferred to Riyadh on 15 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: 14 Saudi Arabian men at imminent risk of execution
Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their families learned on 23 July that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Multiple concerns as Missouri execution set
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for a 1998 murder. He maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Fourteen men at imminent risk of beheading as Saudi Arabia continues execution spreePress release 25 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action: Maldives to resume executions after over 60 years
Sources close to the government of Maldives have confirmed that executions in the country will resume on 21 July 2017. The Maldives Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentences of three men, who are all now at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Wounaan indigenous community in danger in Colombia
Presence and clashes between paramilitary groups, the National Liberation Army and state security forces continue to violate the rights of Indigenous communities in Chocó, in the Pacific region of Colombia.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Resumption of executions looms in Ohio
Ronald Phillips is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 26 July. He was sentenced to death in 1993 for a murder committed earlier that year when he was 19 years old. He is now 43. This would be the first execution in Ohio in three and a half years.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Maldives: Authorities must halt first execution in more than 60 yearsPress release 20 Jul 2017
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Malaysia: Bangladeshi human rights activist detained at airportPress release 20 Jul 2017
