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Urgent Action outcome: Ailing professor granted bail, charges remain
Professor Muhammad Ismail was finally granted bail by the Peshawar High Court on 12 April 2021.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Apr 2021 -
Bahrain: more than 70 new Covid cases in major outbreak at Jaw prisonAmnesty International is increasingly concerned at reports of a major COVID-19 outbreak at Jaw prison in Bahrain, a jail already notorious for its overcrowded conditions.
Press release 09 Apr 2021 -
COVID-19: Prisoners 'forgotten victims' of the pandemic - New ReportAmnesty report warns of how prisoners are forgotten and at risk of COVID-19
Press release 18 Mar 2021 -
Syria 10 Years On - Assad’s Pyrrhic VictoryWhile Assad's regime and its backers continue to eviscerate the country, Syria’s human rights community is not just petitioning and protesting against atrocities; they’re also hunting down torturers and war criminals
Blog post 11 Mar 2021 -
UK/Iran: 'countdown to reunion' for Nazanin Zaghari-RatcliffeAmnesty International has joined the family of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in a “countdown to reunion” as the end of the UK national’s five-year prison sentence following an unfair trial in Iran approaches.
Press release 26 Feb 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Deportation of Chechen man suspended
A.S., a Chechen man who was held in immigration detention in France was released on 20 February.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Feb 2021 -
Ecuador: mass deaths in prisons violence must be fully investigatedPress release 24 Feb 2021
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Urgent Action Outcome: Pastor Steven Tendo released from detention
Steven Tendo, 35-year-old pastor and asylum-seeker, released from detention.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Feb 2021 -
Egypt: detainees in severely overcrowded jails being denied healthcare - new reportPrison officials in Egypt are subjecting prisoners of conscience and others held for political reasons to torture and deliberately denying them healthcare to punish their dissent.
Press release 25 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action outcome: Guinean pro-democracy activist is free
Saïkou Yaya Diallo, the legal coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution freed from prison.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jan 2021 -
Urgent action outcome: Opposition members released
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jan 2021 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Defenders Released
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released and are now safely home.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Dec 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Activist returned to Pakistan and released
Geelaman Pashteen, human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was released.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: Detained activist gets medical and family access
Political activist Serge Branco Nana is currently serving a two-year prison sentence for ‘mutiny’ in Mfou Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Oct 2020 -
Urgent Action Outcome: 10-month sentence for Yemeni LGBTI rights defenderAl-Bokari was charged with violating public morality, promoting homosexuality online and imitating women.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Sep 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Mapuche spiritual leader ends hunger strike
On 18 August 2020, the spiritual leader of the Mapuche people, machi Celestino Córdova Tránsito, ended his hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Aug 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Opposition leader released from prison
After being in detention since October 2019, José Daniel Ferrer García was sent to house arrest in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jul 2020 -
Urgent Action outcome: Teacher and protest organizer released on bailOn 30 May 2020, teacher and activist Badal Abdulbaqi Aba Bakr Barwari was released on bail.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2020 -
Cambodia: Reforms to tackle prison overcrowding ‘must go further and put human rights at the core of drug policy’
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch want reforms to be deepened and made permanent, through the review and amendment of the Law on Drug Control
Press release 03 Jun 2020 -
Cambodia: 'War on Drugs' is rife with torture, corruption and on brink of triggering a COVID-19 catastrophe - New Report‘War on drugs’ has led to human rights abuses and dangerously overfilled detention facilities in the midst of the pandemic
Press release 13 May 2020
