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Urgent Action good news: Detained journalist in India released on bailSantosh Yadav was released from prison on 9 March 2017, over a week after the Supreme Court of India granted him bail.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Virginia USA execution reset as doubts persist
Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 25 April. He maintains his innocence of the 2001 murder for which he was sent to death row in 2006.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Detainee no longer held incommunicado in Venezuela
Retired general Raúl Isaías Baduel, who has been detained in the Venezuelan military prison Ramo Verde since 12 January, has finally been allowed to meet with his lawyer and his family after being held incommunicado for a period of time, and has been…
Urgent action outcomes 08 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Over 300 displaced due to paramilitary activity incursion in ColombiaAn incursion by paramilitaries and subsequent armed confrontation between them and guerrilla groups forced a mass displacement of families and the potential confinement of surrounding communities in Peña Azul, Chocó department, in north-western Colombia.…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Salvadoran asylum seeker released in USA
Salvadoran woman Sara Beltran Hernandez has been granted bond and released from detention. She had been held in a Texas detention centre for 15 months, despite having a claim to asylum and being in urgent need of medical attention.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Doctor on hunger strike after dismissal of lawyer in Iran
Iranian academic Dr Ahmadreza Djalali has resumed his hunger strike and has said he has stopped taking liquids as well as food.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Kiryl Kazachok at risk of imminent execution in Belarus
Kiryl Kazachok has decided not to appeal the death sentence he was given on 28 December 2016 and is now at risk of imminent execution.
Urgent action outcomes 06 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 good news: Woman in urgent need of surgery released in Turkey
Sibel Çapraz was conditionally released from prison on 28 February. She had been in pre-trial detention for almost one year and was in need of medical treatment and an urgent operation.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's prison sentence upheld in Saudi Arabia
The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh has upheld Saudi Arabian human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s 11-year prison sentence. It is feared that he could be detained at any time to start serving his sentence. If detained he will be a prisoner of…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Pastors face imprisonment for trumped up charges in Myanmar
Following international pressure, the Myanmar Army announced that two missing Kachin pastors, Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng, are now in police custody and face what Amnesty International believes to be politically motivated charges. If convicted…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Indigenous community remains displaced in Peru
The 21 families of the Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community, in the Central Peruvian rainforest, remain displaced from their land due to fear that armed individuals will return and act on the death threats they previously made.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sudanese political activist held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
Sudanese national and political activist Alaa Aldin al-Difana is currently being held incommunicado without charge, following his arrest on 26 December 2016, raising fears he could be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He requires access to a…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained asylum seeker need medical care in USA
Sara Beltran Hernandez fled domestic and gang violence in El Salvador in November 2015 to live with relatives in the US.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activist held in solitary confinement in South Korea
Lee Jin-young is being held in solitary confinement after being formally charged under the National Security Law (NSL) for the online distribution of materials that are deemed, by South Korean authorities, to ‘benefit’ North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist missing for more than six months in Rwanda
Journalist John Ndabarasa was last seen in Kigali on 7 August 2016. More than six months later, there is no news on his whereabouts or on the progress of the police investigation into his disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Crackdown on human rights defenders continues in Egypt
The El Nadeem Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence was raided by police and shut down on 9 February.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Okinawa activist continues to be denied bail in Japan
Hiroji Yamashiro remains in detention following the denial of his Special Appeal for bail by the Supreme Court on 20 February 2017. Arrested for his role in protests against new U.S. military construction projects in Okinawa, Hiroji Yamashiro has not…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution date set for Malaysian brothers
Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai are scheduled to be executed on Friday, 24 February 2017. The brothers were convicted of murder in 2010 on the basis of circumstantial evidence and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 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
