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Urgent Action update: Six men at imminent risk of execution in Egypt
Six men submitted their final appeal to the Supreme Military Court in December 2016. The men were sentenced to death by a military court in May 2016, in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture. If the court rejects their appeal, the men…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two men at imminent risk of execution in Bahrain
Mohamed Ramadhan ‘Issa ‘Ali Hussain and Hussain ‘Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed, are at imminent risk of execution following the execution of three men on 15 January. Their death sentences were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 16 November 2015. Their trial…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2017 -
Iranian journalist given 40 lashes for 'inaccurate reporting'Press release 18 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Congress to vote on regressive torture bill in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has finalized its version of a General Law on Torture. This version of the bill has key amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture complaints.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Fourth death sentence issued before new year in Belarus
Kiryl Kazachok was sentenced to death by the Gomel Regional Court, in southeast Belarus, on 28 December. His was the fourth death sentence to be issued in Belarus in 2016.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mental health experts support clemency in USA
Ricky Gray is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 18 January. More than 50 mental health professionals have written to the state governor in support of clemency in view of the prisoner’s childhood of severe sexual and physical abuse and its impact on…
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three men now face imminent execution in Bahrain
On 9 January the Court of Cassation in Bahrain upheld death sentences against three Bahraini men. It also upheld life sentences against seven others and the revocation of the nationality of eight of them.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action Myanmar: Torture fears for hundreds-Rohingya detained in Myanmar
Hundreds of Rohingya have been detained as part of the ongoing security operation in northern Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Website founder for 'inciting subversion' in China
Liu Feiyue, founder and director of Hubei-based human rights website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch” (www.msguancha.com), has been formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Bahrain: execution of three men is 'dark day for human rights' in the countryPress release 15 Jan 2017
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Vigil for jailed British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - London, Monday 16 January (4pm)Press release 15 Jan 2017
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Iran: 12 prisoners face execution tomorrow for drugs offencesPress release 13 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Malaysian national faces imminent execution in Singapore
Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 22 July 2012 in Singapore. The execution could take place as early as next week.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jan 2017 -
Our final plea to Obama to close GuantánamoIt's been 15 years since the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo, the US naval base in Cuba infamous for its shocking human rights record of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
11 Jan 2017 -
Iran: Former child bride executed after stillbirthZeinab was 15 when she left her family to marry Hossein. Soon after the wedding, Hossein started beating her. She asked for a divorce, but he refused. She told police, but they ignored her. After an unfair trial, Zeinab was executed on 2 October 2018.
11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Veteran activist sentenced to death in China
A court in China’s Henan province has convicted and sentenced Xu Youchen to death for killing a policeman when authorities were taking him and his wife away for peaceful petitioning.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
USA: 'final plea' to Obama to close GuantánamoPress release 10 Jan 2017
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Facing firing squad for drugs crimes in IndonesiaTen people still face being shot by firing squad after their scheduled executions were postponed in July 2016. All executions in Indonesia carried out under current president Joko Widodo have been for alleged drugs offenses.
10 Jan 2017 -
Turkey’s crackdown on human rightsFollowing the failed coup, the Turkish government embarked on a crackdown of exceptional proportions, targeting people it accuses of being linked to Fethullah Gülen – a Turkish cleric in exile in the US, who the government accuse of masterminding the…
Press release 10 Jan 2017
