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Urgent Action good news: General law on torture improved and passed in Mexico
On 19 April the lower house of Mexican congress approved their version of the General Law on Torture and sent it back to the Senate for final approval before it becomes law.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sudanese doctor risks ill-treatment in detention
Dr. Mohamed Yasin Abdalla, the chairperson of the Central Committee of Sudanese Doctors (CCSD), was arrested on 22 April in Khartoum by National Intelligence Service (NISS) agents.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi released
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on 19 April 2017. He had been imprisoned since 23 November 2016. Keywan Karimi was a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Kenneth WIlliams executed in Arkansas
Kenneth Williams was executed in Arkansas on 27 April for a murder committed during a prison escape in 1999.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Chadian activist freed, two others on trial
Chadian activist Dingamnayal Nely Versinis has been released. Fellow activists Nadjo Kaina Palmer and Bertrand Sollo, detained at Amsinene prison, are on trial for their role in calling for peaceful protests.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three detained activists falsely charged in Chad
Three Chadian activists being detained at the Amsinene prison are facing false charges for their role in calling for peaceful protests. They are prisoners of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Dutch-Iranian prisoner denied heart surgery in Iran
Dutch-Iranian national Sabri Hassanpour, who has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since his arrest on 19 April 2016, is being denied urgently needed open heart surgery by the Iranian authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Jack Jones executed in Arkansas
Jack Jones, aged 52, was executed on 24 April for a murder committed in 1995. He was one of two men put to death in Arkansas on 24 April, the first time that a state in the USA has carried out two executions on the same day since 2000.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Pro-Biafran activist released in Nigeria
Sunday Chucks Obasi (30) who was abducted from his home in Amuko Nnewi Anambra State on 16 August 2016 by Nigerian security agents has been released on bail.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Bolivian civil society centre under threat
The civil society organization Bolivian Documentation and Information Centre (CEDIB) reports being harassed, threatened, and evicted from its premises in Cochabamba, central Bolivia.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Student convicted for posession of 'illegal' books in Malaysia
Research student Siti Noor Aishah has been sentenced by the Kuala Lumpur High Court to five years in prison for possessing 12 books deemed ‘illegal’ by the Malaysian government.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Urge legislators to decriminalise abortion in El SalvadorSalvadorian legislators will soon debate a proposed change to the Criminal Code that, if passed, would end the total criminalization of abortion in the country. It is the first time in almost 20 years that there is a real opportunity to change this law.
Urgent action outcomes 02 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Marcel Williams executed in Arkansas, USA
Marcel Williams was executed on 24 April for a murder committed in 1994. He was one of two men put to death in Arkansas on 24 April, the first time that a state in the USA has carried out two executions on the same day since 2000.
Urgent action outcomes 02 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Five children executed and two others at risk in Somalia
Puntland authorities have executed five boys found guilty of murder. They were subjected to various forms of torture before “confessing” to the crime. Two other boys found guilty are at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 02 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Rakhine journalist receiving death threats in Myanmar
Journalist Nay Min Aung (known as Min Min) has been receiving death threats after publishing an article about an armed ethnic group operating in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Man arrested at 15 faces imminent execution in Iran
Peyman Barandah, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, is due to be executed on 10 May in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, Fars Province, Iran. He was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial which violated principles of juvenile justice.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Refugees in Greece at great risk due to unsafe camps
Over a thousand refugees and migrants face uninhabitable and unsafe conditions in three camps in Elliniko, Athens. Women and girls are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005
Ledell Lee was executed in Arkansas on 20 April shortly before the death warrant in his case expired at midnight. He was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1993.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Virginia governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 April, the Governor of Virginia commuted the death sentence of Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national who was scheduled to be executed on 25 April and who has continued to maintain his innocence.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist in solitary confinement for 1234 days in Egypt
On 4 February, the Cairo Administrative Court postponed activist Ahmed Douma's appeal against his prolonged solitary confinement to 16 May. He has been held in poor detention conditions since his arrest on 3 December 2013.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017
