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Urgent Action: Eight students in Sudan arrested, whereabouts unknown
National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) agents raided the office of a prominent human rights lawyer, Nabil Adib, in Khartoum on 5 May and arrested 10 people.
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Urgent Action: Activist forcibly detained in psychiatric hospital in Russia
Activist Dmitry Vorobyovsky was forcibly taken from his home to the Voronezh Regional Neurological Dispensary on the evening of 6 May.
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Urgent Action update: Russian blogger imprisoned after appeal rejected
On 20 April political activist and blogger Darya Poliudova arrived in the open prison colony in Novorossiisk, Krasnodar Krai, where she will be serving her sentence after her appeal was rejected on 30 March.
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Urgent Action: Prisoners at imminent risk of executions in Indonesia
Three death row prisoners were moved on 8 May to Indonesia’s Nusakambangan prison island, where 13 executions were carried out in 2015.
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Urgent Action update: Bill banning same-sex marriage moves forward in GeorgiaUrgent action outcomes 10 May 2016
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Urgent Action update: Torture allegations in Qatar ignored, sentence upheld
Ronaldo Lopez Ulep’s 15 years’ imprisonment sentence was upheld by the Court of Cassation in Qatar on 2 May. His allegations of torture have not yet been investigated.
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Urgent Action good news: Peaceful Omani activist released without charge
Omani poet, writer, film critic and human rights defender, Abdullah Habib was released without charge on 4 May.
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Urgent Action update: Persons with Albinism at risk of further attacks in Malawi
A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off.
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Urgent Action update: Persons with Albinism at risk of further attacks in MalawiA teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body…
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Urgent Action good news: Grand prix protester released after pardon in Bahrain
Rayhana al-Mousawi, one of two women protesters at the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix, has been released as part of a royal pardon on 20 April.
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Urgent Action update: Persons with Albinism at risk of further attacks in Malawi
A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body…
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Urgent Action update: Gennadii Yakovitskii's death sentence upheld in Belarus
The Supreme Court of Belarus upheld the death sentence of Gennadii Yakovitskii on 4 April. He is now at imminent risk of execution.
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Urgent Action: Eight-year sentence for having a miscarriage in Argentina
Twenty-seven-year-old Belén has been held in pre-trial detention for over two years in northern Argentina, after suffering a miscarriage in a public hospital.
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Urgent Action update: Egyptian human rights defender arrested
Prominent human rights defender, Dr Ahmed Abdullah, was arrested at his home and beaten on 25 April
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Urgent Action good news: Teacher released after serving his sentence in Bahrain
Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, has been released after completing a five-year prison sentence.
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Urgent Action update: Dr Nasser Bin Ghaith appeared in court in UAE
Dr Nasser bin Ghaith appeared briefly before the State Security Chamber of the Federal Supreme Court
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Urgent Action good news: Leyla and Arif Yunus arrive in the Netherlands
Azerbaijani human rights defenders and former prisoners of conscience Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus were allowed to travel to the Netherlands
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Urgent Action: Austrian President must block changes to asylum law
On 27 April the Austrian parliament passed amendments to Austria’s asylum law
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Urgent Action: Hundreds of protesters arrested in Egypt
Security forces arbitrarily arrested hundreds of people
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Urgent Action: Palestinian children administratively detained
A 16-year-old Palestinian boy was arrested by Israeli forces on 4 February while he was sleeping
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