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Urgent Action update: Two relatives of environmental members killed in Colombia
On 22 September, two relatives of members of the Rios Vivos Movement were killed in Antioquia, Colombia.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2018 -
UAE: Matthew Hedges must be released if 'spying' charge relates only to academic research‘This is what we and his family feared’ - Polly Truscott
Press release 16 Oct 2018 -
Nigeria: Boko Haram killing of aid worker Hauwa Liman 'a war crime'"Hauwa Liman was providing desperately-needed humanitarian services to people affected by the conflict in Nigeria."
Press release 16 Oct 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Whereabouts of human rights lawyer unknown in Egypt
Human rights defenders Ezzat Ghoniem and Azzoz Mahgoub have been forcibly disappeared since 14 September.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer at risk for defending indigenous people in Chile
Lawyer Karina Riquelme was again intimidated by Chilean police intelligence agents several times because of her work.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer at risk granted protection measures in Chile
Chilean human rights defender and lawyer Karina Riquelme is no longer considered under imminent threat.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2018 -
Urgent Action: Tennessee man at imminent risk of execution
Edmund Zagorski was scheduled to be executed on 11 October in Tennessee, using a new three-drug lethal injection.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Oct 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Shuhuh tribe members expect verdict in unfair trial in Oman
An Omani court expected to issue its verdict in the case of four detainees from the province of Musandam.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Oct 2018 -
Russia: Amnesty researcher abducted and subjected to mock executions in Ingushetia'They held a gun to my head and told me they were going to kill me'
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Spain: leading Catalan figures Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart should be freedPress release 15 Oct 2018
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Hungary: Amnesty launches legal challenge to law criminalising work on migrationPress release 15 Oct 2018
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Urgent Action: Ex-minister arbitrarily held after book release in Eritrea
Former Eritrean Minister of Finance, Berhane Abrehe, was taken to an undisclosed location by security agents.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Oct 2018 -
Syria: one year on, Coalition refusal to accept responsibility for Raqqa deaths is 'insult' to civiliansMoD still repeating ‘incredible’ claim its own Raqqa airstrikes killed zero civilians
Press release 14 Oct 2018 -
Kazakhstan: thousands with intellectual disabilities denied basic rights - new report'Guardianship’ system is a legacy of Soviet psychiatry
Press release 12 Oct 2018 -
Pakistan: Detained Pashtun human rights defender must be released"She is being detained solely for her peaceful human rights work."
Press release 12 Oct 2018 -
Australia: 'Wretched situation' for refugees on Nauru as health crisis escalatesAbrupt end to Médecins Sans Frontières health service ‘callous and disgraceful’.
Press release 11 Oct 2018 -
USA immigration: more family separations than previously disclosed - new report‘The intensity, scale and scope of the abuses against people seeking asylum are truly sickening’
Press release 11 Oct 2018 -
UK: Natural History Museum must justify hosting Saudi Arabia eventEvent comes amid intense concern over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance
Press release 11 Oct 2018 -
Northern Ireland abortion: 75% of UK public want government to change law - new pollsNew polls reveal overwhelming support for decriminalisation of abortion and law reform for Northern Ireland
Press release 10 Oct 2018 -
Myanmar: Journalists arrested in 'another alarming assault on press freedom'“Journalists have a vital role to play in holding state officials to account and informing the public."
Press release 10 Oct 2018
