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Urgent Action: Journalist Jia Jia feared detained in China
Prominent journalist Jia Jia, who called for President Xi Jinping to resign, went missing while he was at the Beijing airport.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Mar 2016 -
Urgent Action: Journalist risks death penalty for tweets in Saudi Arabia
Journalist and prisoner of conscience, Alaa Brinji is on trial charged with apostasy and risks being sentenced to death.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Mar 2016 -
Urgent Action: Stop amendment banning same-sex marriage in Georgia
Proposed change to Georgia's constitution will define marriage explicitly as between a man and a woman.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Mar 2016 -
Edward Snowden: 'Privacy is for the powerless'To mark World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Edward Snowden talks to us about how governments are watching everything we do online, and why we must bring mass surveillance back under control.
Blog post 11 Mar 2016 -
Urgent: Stop the new Snooper’s Charter annihilating our rightsEvery citizen in the UK under surveillance: this is the government's plan. The government is ignoring tech industry experts, rights groups - and its own advice - to rush through the Investigatory Powers Bill, a piece of legislation that will violate the…
Blog post 11 Mar 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Six men free after sentence reduced in Tunisia
Six Tunisian men convicted of “sodomy” were found guilty but not returned to prison after their sentence was reduced on appeal.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Mar 2016 -
Urgent Action: Three journalists face prison in Cameroon
Cameroonian journalists Baba Wame, Felix Ebole Bola and Rodrigue Tongue are on trial for not disclosing their sources.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Mar 2016 -
North Korea, the surveillance stateThe famously secretive and isolated state is severely punishing citizens who try to reach out and connect with the world beyond North Korea. Phones and computers connecting to the internet and allowing international calls are banned. When people take…
09 Mar 2016 -
Seven reasons we still need to fight for women’s human rightsHuman rights are the basic minimum protections which every human being should be able to enjoy. But historically not all people have been able to enjoy and exercise their rights in the same way. The result is unequal treatment. One such group is women…
Blog post 08 Mar 2016 -
Urgent Action: Professor and students detained for sedition in India
A professor and two students from Delhi are in detention for allegedly chanting ‘anti-India’ slogans at two separate events.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Mar 2016 -
Bahrain: stripping of nationality is now 'weapon of choice' as 11 more face expulsion tomorrowPress release 07 Mar 2016
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Turkey: Zaman newspaper taken over as government steamrolls press freedomPress release 04 Mar 2016
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Nabeel RajabImprisoned for tweeting about his government. Beaten for peacefully protesting for human rights. Nabeel Rajab has been targeted again and again by the authorities in Bahrain, who are determined to silence him. But Nabeel is equally determined to keep…
04 Mar 2016 -
Iran: filmmaker and two musicians face jail for 'illegal audio-visual activities'Press release 01 Mar 2016
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Republic of Congo refuses entry to Amnesty expert ahead of next month's electionsPress release 27 Feb 2016
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Hebron protests: Israeli authorities should end 'discriminatory' restrictions on movementPress release 26 Feb 2016
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LGBTI History Month: You don’t know what you’ve got till it’s goneDid you know that you could have faced the death penalty for being gay in the UK? It’s very easy to look back on progress made and forget this did not just happen. For every right we now enjoy here in the UK, people have fought, lost and fought again –…
Blog post 25 Feb 2016 -
Bahrain: jailing of Ebrahim Sharif is 'outrageous attack' on freedom of expressionPress release 24 Feb 2016
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Peter GresteImprisoned for being a journalist: the nightmare that became reality for Al Jazeera reporter Peter Greste in 2013, when Egyptian authorities locked him up for simply doing his job. What really happened to Peter and his colleagues? Peter told us the whole…
18 Feb 2016
