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Urgent Action update: Kiryl Kazachok at risk of imminent execution in BelarusKiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender being tortured in Evin, Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Arash Sadeghi is being subjected to torture by Revolutionary Guard officials who are blocking his access to urgent medical care.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Good news: Sara Beltran Hernandez has been released!Sara Beltran Hernandez, a 26-year-old mother who fled violence in El Salvador and has been detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Texas for 15 months, has been released from detention to be with her family and to seek treatment for a…
Blog post 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activist held in solitary confinement in South Korea
Lee Jin-young is being held in solitary confinement after being formally charged under the National Security Law (NSL) for the online distribution of materials that are deemed, by South Korean authorities, to ‘benefit’ North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution date set for Malaysian brothers
Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai are scheduled to be executed on Friday, 24 February 2017. The brothers were convicted of murder in 2010 on the basis of circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian woman in Canada risks torture if deported
Azizi Mirmahaleh, a 60-year old woman from Iran, is currently in a detention centre in Laval, Québec, awaiting her scheduled deportation on 28 February.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Unwell Palestinian in administrative detention in Israel/OPT
Palestinian Muhammed al-Qiq has been on hunger strike since 6 February in protest against his administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sentenced to death based on 'confessions' in Iraq
Brothers Mahmoud Tale’ Nayef and Taleb Tale’ Nayef were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 9 August 2016 based on “confessions” extracted under torture. Taleb Tale’ Nayef remains at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous community at risk due to threats in Peru
More than 60 heavily armed individuals entered Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community territory in the Central Peruvian rainforest and forced out 21 families by subjecting them to death threats.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Still no information on hundreds of missing Rohingya
Four months after the launch of major security operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of detained Rohingya are still unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner in solitary confinement for months in Morocco
Ali Aarrass has been held in prolonged solitary confinement since his transfer to Tifelt II Local Prison on 10 October 2016. His health has sharply deteriorated as a result.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
The execution of Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested when he was just 17 years old, has been rescheduled for 18 February. He continues to be held in solitary confinement in Lakan prison in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, further exacerbating his…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
India: Minister's claim to have ordered torture must be investigatedPress release 14 Feb 2017
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Nazanin: A letter to my daughterNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian charity worker, was at the airport returning to the UK when she was detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and put in an Iranian prison. This is a translated version a letter Nazanin wrote to her daughter…
Blog post 09 Feb 2017 -
UPDATE: Hamid Ahmadi's execution has been stayed!Hamid Ahmadi is facing execution on Saturday 18 February for a crime he was charged with as a teenager - after being tortured in to a 'confession'. Tell Iran: don't execute Hamid Ahmadi.
Blog post 09 Feb 2017 -
Dakota pipeline, USA: army decision to allow construction is 'unlawful'Press release 08 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Iranian academic could be sentenced to death
Iranian academic specializing in disaster medicine Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden detained in Iran since 25 April 2016, has been threatened with the death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
UA update: Activists reunite with families; one still missing in Pakistan
Human rights activists Salman Haider, Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, and Ahmed Raza Naseer returned home between 27 – 29th January after being subjected to a suspected enforced disappearance in early January by security forces in Pakistan.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Syria: 13,000 secretly hanged in Saydnaya military prison - shocking new reportPress release 07 Feb 2017
