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Urgent Action good news: Pastor released after over two years of detention in North Korea
Lim Hyeon-soo, a 62 year old Canadian pastor, has been released from a North Korean labour camp after spending more than two and a half years in detention.
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Urgent Action: In Ukraine 76-year old Crimean Tatar protestor in detention
76-year old Crimean Tatar Server Karametov was arrested on 8 August by the de facto authorities in Crimea while engaging in a peaceful protest and sentenced to 10 days of administrative detention on charges of resisting police.
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Urgent Action: Pakistani defender forcibly disappeared
Human rights defender and Convenor of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, Punhal Sario, has been forcibly disappeared in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan.
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Urgent Action update: Journalist's deportation halted but risk remains in Russian Federation
On 8 August, the Moscow City Court suspended the deportation of Uzabekistani national Khudoberdi Nurmatov pending review
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Urgent Action update: Shawkan still detained after four years in Egypt
On 12 August, the Cairo criminal court adjourned Mahmoud Abu Zeid's court hearing 19 August, for the 35th time. Today is the four-year anniversary of Mahmoud Abu Zeid arrest.
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Urgent Action good news: Russia drops case against rights defender
The criminal case against prominent Russian human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko for “violation of ‘foreign agents’ law” was closed on 19 June due to an “absence of the elements of the crime”.
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Urgent Action: Two Palestinian women in administrative detention in Israel
Member of the Palestinian parliament Khalida Jarrar and women’s union leader Khitam Saafin have been held without being charged or tried for 36 days.
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Urgent Action: Extreme risk of violence for refugees of Australia on Manus Island
Australia’s offshore detention and processing policy on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (PNG), amounts to the systematic abuse of hundreds of individuals.
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Urgent Action update: Forcibly returned activist in China held incommunicado
Dong Guangping’s court hearing scheduled for April 2017 has been cancelled by authorities with no reason provided.
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Urgent Action good news: Harassed priest in Sri Lanka granted fellowship abroad
Since being summoned for questioning by the Sri Lankan police for hosting a memorial for the war dead, Father Elil Rajendran was successful in securing a court order directing the police not to question him further.
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Urgent Action update: Persecution of gay men in Chechnya resumes
According to a Russian LGBT Network report published in July, the persecution of gay men in Chechnya has resumed. The Chechen authorities continue to deny that gay people even exist in Chechnya.
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Urgent Action update: Media workers face additional charges in Myanmar
While newspaper editor Kyaw Min Swe has been released on bail, he remains on trial for “online defamation’’ for a satirical article mocking the Myanmar Army.
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Urgent Action: Forced disappearance in Mapuche community in Argentina
National Security Forces violently repressed the Mapuche community Pu Lof en Resistencia, in Chubut, Argentina, and a 28-
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Urgent Action update: Judicial reforms in Poland must not threaten fair trial
On 24 July President Duda vetoed two of the three controversial legislative amendments regarding judicial reforms but signed a third amendment.
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Urgent Action: Six activists in China detained for Liu Xiaobo memorial
Wei Xiaobing, He Lin, Liu Guangxiao, Li Shujia, Wang Meiju and Qin Mingxin have been criminally detained on suspicion of “assembling a crowd to disturb social order” after they held a seaside memorial for deceased Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in…
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Urgent Action update: Syrian human rights defender executed
On 1 August, the family of Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi received the news that he was extrajudicially executed in October 2015.
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Urgent Action good news: Egyptian prisoner of conscience released
Human rights defender Tarek Hussein was released on 27 July. After being arbitrarily detained for 40 days, the former prisoner of conscience has now joined his family.
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Urgent Action good news: Syrian-Kurdish opposition activist released
Syrian-Kurdish opposition activist Mohsen Taher was released from Allaya prison in Qamishli, north-eastern Syria, on 29 July.
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Urgent Action update: Crimean rights defender in Ukraine to appear in court
The pre-trial investigation into the case of Crimean Tatar human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku, falsely accused of membership in an alleged terrorist organisation in Crimea, has now concluded.
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Urgent Action update: Falun Gong practitioner indefinitely detained in China
A judge has asked the prosecutor to collect further evidence for the trial of Falun Gong practitioner, Chen Huixia, for her indictment of “using an evil cult to undermine law enforcement”.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017