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Urgent Action: Halt plans to reinstate the death penalty in The Philippines
The House of Representatives and Senate of the Philippines will consider and vote on draft legislation to reintroduce the death penalty from as early as 13 December.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two Palestinian human rights defenders on trial
Palestinian human rights defenders Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro face charges in an Israeli military court relating to their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Both face time in prison if found guilty.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Independent journalist tortured, facing jail in Turkmenistan
Journalist Khudayberdy Allashov was detained on 3 December, together with his wife and mother, in Turkmenistan. He is accused of possessing chewing tobacco, which is a criminal offence, and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. His mother also…
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Worrying escalation in the crackdown on NGOs in Egypt
A spurious investigation into Egyptian human rights organizations has escalated. On 7 December, prominent women’s rights defender and lawyer Azza Soliman was arrested and charged.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Sentenced to 10 years for graffiti protest in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani youth activist Bayram Mammadov was sentenced to 10 years in prison on 8 December for a graffiti protest. Fellow activist Giyas Ibrahimov was also sentenced to 10 years in prison on 25 October.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Demand commutation for Chelsea Manning in USA
Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison after disclosing classified information – some of which pointed to potential human rights violations – after a trial marred by due process shortcomings. President Obama must commute her sentence before…
Urgent action outcomes 08 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Graffiti artist transferred to new prison in Cuba
Cuban prisoner of conscience and graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’) has been transferred to a new detention centre where he continues to be detained without charge since his arrest on 26 November. He now refuses to eat the food from…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
UA good news: Man returned to Sudan from France, other no longer at risk
One of the two Sudanese nationals at risk of being illegally returned to Sudan from France was released on 22 November and is not at immediate risk.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Demand clemency for Native American activist
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned in the USA for over 40 years despite concerns over the fairness of his trial. President Obama must grant him clemency before he leaves office.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Circus performer held in administrative detention in Israel/OPT
The High Court of Israel accepted to review the case of Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha but, in a 5 December hearing, his lawyer decided to withdraw the petition after the judges indicated that they believed there was enough “evidence” in a secret file to…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ten Bahraini men sentenced to death and life imprisonment
A Bahraini court of appeal upheld the death sentences against three Bahraini men, the life sentences against seven others and the revocation of the nationality of eight of them on 4 December after an unfair retrial in relation to the killing of three…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Gravely ill Iranian musician returned to prison
Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian was forced to return to Tehran’s Evin Prison on 4 December. He had been on medical leave following his month-long hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender harassed in Nicaragua
Francisca Ramírez, coordinator of the Council for the Defence of Our Land, Lake and Sovereignty, reported that the Nicaraguan police damaged and took possession of a pickup truck and another truck which she uses for her work, without notice.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Tortured to confess child faces 15 years in jail in Egypt
The trial of 15-year-old Aser Mohamed has been adjourned to 27 December. He faces a string of charges, including belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood group and attacking a hotel, based on “confessions” that he says were obtained under torture after…
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian filmmaker jailed, at risk of flogging
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was jailed on 23 November after being summoned to start serving his prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian activist couple jailed in Evin prison
The health of jailed Iranian human rights defender Arash Sadeghi has deteriorated. He has been on hunger strike since 24 October in protest at the imprisonment of his wife, Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a human rights defender jailed for writing a story about…
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Belarus’ last prisoner on death row at risk
Siarhei Vostrykau is the last known prisoner on death row in Belarus after the authorities executed the other remaining three prisoners on death row on 5 November. Siarhei Vostrykau is at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Prosecuted by military tribunal in Venezuela
Andrés Moreno Febres-Cordero, Marco Trejo, James Mathison and César Cuellar were granted conditional release in late November after having been arrested for producing a video for the opposition party Primero Justicia.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Detained without charge for more than a month in Bahrain
Al-Sayed Alawi Hussain al-Alawi was arrested at work on 24 October in Bahrain. He was allowed to call his family for the first time late at night on 27 November to tell them that he was being held at the Criminal Investigation Directorate (CID).
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
End Action: Former child detainee returned to prison in Israel/OPT
Mohammad al-Hashlamoun was released on 28 June after six months in administrative detention. However, the Israeli authorities have subsequently rearrested him and on 7 November he has been given another four month administrative detention order.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016