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Urgent Action update: Hearing set for prisoner tortured in detention in MoroccoMorocco’s Court of Cassation will hear Ali Aarrass on 29 March, four years after he lodged an appeal. He is serving a 12-year prison sentence after being unfairly convicted based on evidence obtained under torture. He has been in solitary confinement…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Vote on regressive torture bill imminent in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has until 30 April to vote on the General Law on Torture. The current version of the bill has amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Bipolar disorder not raised at trial for man set to be executed in USA
Jack Jones, aged 52, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April for a murder committed in 1995. The jurors who sentenced him to death did not know he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a serious mental disability, shortly before the crime.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Fair trial concern revisited as execution looms in Arkansas, USA
Stacey Johnson, aged 47, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 20 April for a 1993 murder. Three state Supreme Court Justices argued that he was deprived of a fair trial by being denied access to information regarding the credibility of a key…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Trial ongoing against indigenous defenders in Argentina
Despite the fact that the oral trial scheduled for 20 March against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory was suspended, the legal proceedings which violate their right to defence and access to justice…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
More than 7,000 killed in the Philippines in six months, as president encourages murderPresident Duterte ordered police and citizens to kill anyone they believe to be connected to the drugs trade in June 2016. In the following six months, more than 7,000 people were killed. Police and vigilantes are brazenly killing for incentives, with no…
27 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution set despite diagnosis of schizophrenia in USA
Bruce Ward is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 17 April. He has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. In custody since 1989, he has been on death row for nearly 25 years. Thirty-two years old at the time of the crime, he is now aged 60.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Mar 2017 -
Pakistan is 'surrendering the judicial system to the military'Press release 22 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's whereabouts unknown in UAEProminent Emirati human rights defender and blogger Ahmed Mansoor was arrested at his home in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on 20 March. His whereabouts are unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Egyptian prisoner in solitary confinement on hunger strike
Ahmed Amin Ghazali Amin has been on hunger strike since 9 March, in protest against his solitary confinement, which he has been held in since May 2016, when he was sentenced to death by a Military Court. An appeal hearing is still due to be set. If…
Urgent action outcomes 21 Mar 2017 -
Forty pairs of shoes go on display in London to highlight student disappearances in MexicoPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Indigenous defenders denied right to defence in Argentina
On 20 March the oral trial against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory will take place. These legal proceedings violate their right to defence and access to justice.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Stop journalist's forcible return from Russia to Uzbekistan
Journalist and activist Khudoberdi Nurmatov (also known as Ali Feruz) is at risk of being forcibly returned from Russia to Uzbekistan.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action correction: Virginia USA execution reset as doubts persist
Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 25 April. He maintains his innocence of the 2001 murder for which he was sent to death row in 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Brothers hurriedly executed in secretive manner in Malaysia
Despite a pending clemency application before the state’s Pardon Board, brothers Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai were executed at dawn on 15 March 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three Bahrainis executed by firing squad
On 15 January the Bahraini authorities executed three men by firing squad. Seven others continue to serve life sentences which were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 9 January along with the three death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Clemency board in USA to hear what jury never did
Marcel Williams, aged 46, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April. The jury never heard any mitigating evidence about his childhood of severe abuse and trauma.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Mar 2017 -
It's a human right to agitate the 'injustice' systemA year ago I walked out of a Louisiana prison a free man after serving 44 years in solitary confinement.
Blog post 17 Mar 2017 -
Podcast: Albert Woodfox on surviving 44 years in solitaryAlbert Woodfox has endured longer in solitary confinement than anyone else in the US. When he was imprisoned in Louisiana in the 1970s, racism was rife. Albert took a stand - and it cost him. Hear why Albert was punished over the odds and how he survived…
16 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Virginia USA execution reset as doubts persist
Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 25 April. He maintains his innocence of the 2001 murder for which he was sent to death row in 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Mar 2017
