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Urgent Action: Execution date set for man on death row for 34 years in USA
John Conner, a 60-year-old man who has been on death row in Georgia for 34 years, is scheduled to be executed on 14 July.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Risk of impunity in cases of forced sterilizations in Peru
The right to justice of thousands of women - mainly peasant, Indigenous and Quechua-speaking women – who were sterilized against their will is at risk, after authorities failed to file charges against those responsible before the legal deadline passed.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Victim of unfair trial, health at risk in Russian Federation
Stanislav Klykh is currently in pre-trial detention after being sentenced on 26 May to 20 years in prison after an unfair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Sentence completed in March 2015, still in Iraq jail
Walid Yunis Ahmad was due to be released on 6 March 2015. He still remains in prison in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq more than a year after having completed his five-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Death and prison sentences after unfair trial in Egypt
An Egyptian military court has sentenced eight civilians to death and 18 others to lengthy prison terms after a grossly unfair trial that relied on “confessions” extracted under torture.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Jul 2016 -
Good news: How you've helped to keep hope aliveThe world seems to be a darker place in the space of just a couple of weeks. Now more than ever we must strengthen our resolve as a movement. Our director, Kate Allen, shares just some of the ways you have helped keep hope alive in the last few months.
Blog post 01 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: First execution in the Maldives in 60 years feared imminent
The Maldives Supreme Court upheld the conviction and death sentence against 22 year old Hussain Humaam Ahmed for the murder of MP Afrasheem Ali in 2012, despite serious concerns about fair trial proceedings in his case.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Congolese civilian's military trial politically motivated
Professor Huit Mulongo is facing trumped up charges of possession of a military weapon and ammunition. He will be tried before a military court, despite being a civilian.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Congolese activist in military trial risks 20 years in prison
Paul Kikukama Ndjokolo is set to stand trial before a military court and risks a prison sentence solely for having distributed a civil society press release to police officers. Amnesty International calls for his unconditional and immediate release.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jun 2016 -
Today's CIA rendition cases at European Court are 'last chance' for truthPress release 29 Jun 2016
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Commons rendition debate should prompt Government to allow torture inquiryPress release 28 Jun 2016
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Urgent Action update: Ten Yemeni journalists forcibly disappeared
Ten Yemeni journalists have been forcibly disappeared since 23 May after they were moved from al-Habra pre-trial detention facility in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, to an unknown location. They have been arbitrarily detained since 9 June 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: ‘Extremism’ trial held behind closed doors in Tajikistan
The trial of Buzurgmekhr Yorov, a lawyer representing members of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), began in May.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2016 -
Israel's decision to keep Palestinian circus trainer in jail for six more months is 'shameful'Press release 13 Jun 2016
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Waleed Abu al-Khair, imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for defending human rightsHuman rights lawyer Waleed Abu al-Khair is serving a 15-year sentence for his human rights activism. Waleed was charged under Saudi Arabia's strict counter-terror laws for activities like representing activists like Raif Badawi in court and discussing…
09 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Waleed Abu al-Khair starts hunger strike in Saudi Arabia
Imprisoned human rights defender and lawyer, Waleed Abu al-Khair, began a hunger strike on 7 June to protest the prison authorities’ refusal to provide him with adequate medical care and because of his ongoing ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Belarus issues third death sentence in 2016
Siarhei Vostrykau was sentenced to death by the Homel Regional Court on 19 May. He is the third person to be sentenced to death in Belarus this year.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Three death sentnces upheld in Bahrain
The Bahraini High Court of Appeal has upheld the death sentences imposed against three Bahraini men and life sentences against seven others after an unfair trial in relation to the killing of three policemen in March 2014.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent action update: Egypt: Shawkan's trial adjourned until 28 June
A Cairo court adjourned to 28 June the trial of photojournalist Shawkan. He is a prisoner of conscience facing nine trumped-up charges and is at risk of the death penalty, if convicted.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Returned Chinese activists at risk of unfair trial
Two Chinese activists, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and unfair trial.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Jun 2016
