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Urgent Action update: Hearing set for prisoner tortured in detention in MoroccoMorocco’s Court of Cassation will hear Ali Aarrass on 29 March, four years after he lodged an appeal. He is serving a 12-year prison sentence after being unfairly convicted based on evidence obtained under torture. He has been in solitary confinement…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Vote on regressive torture bill imminent in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has until 30 April to vote on the General Law on Torture. The current version of the bill has amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Stop journalist's forcible return from Russia to UzbekistanJournalist and activist Khudoberdi Nurmatov (also known as Ali Feruz) is at risk of being forcibly returned from Russia to Uzbekistan.
Urgent action outcomes 20 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 -
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 -
India: Minister's claim to have ordered torture must be investigatedPress release 14 Feb 2017
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The human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination in Syrian prisonSaydnaya Prison is where the Syrian government quietly slaughters its own people. It is a place carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately exterminate those trapped inside.
07 Feb 2017 -
USA: new CIA deputy director's alleged torture links must be scrutinisedPress release 03 Feb 2017
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Amnesty International urges investigation of new torture allegations in Northern IrelandPress release 01 Feb 2017
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Response to President Trump's comments that 'waterboarding works'Press release 26 Jan 2017
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Theresa May should tell Donald Trump about 'widespread fear' on human rights during Washington meetingPress release 26 Jan 2017
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Demand that Theresa May raises human rights with President TrumpAs Donald Trump fulfils some of his manifesto promises and tramples over the rights of people around the world in the process, we need our Prime Minister Theresa May to commit to standing up for those rights.
Blog post 26 Jan 2017 -
New 'Truth for Giulio' universities campaign for Cambridge student murdered in EgyptPress release 25 Jan 2017
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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 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 -
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 -
USA: 'final plea' to Obama to close GuantánamoPress release 10 Jan 2017
