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Urgent Action good news: Indonesian activist released, appeal against conviction ongoing
Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, known as Budi Pego, was released from prison on 1 July 2018.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Youth activists risk three years imprisonment in DRC
After more than 160 days in incommunicado detention, four pro-democracy youth activists were charged.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Glastonbury 'One Love' reggae festival will support Amnesty's human rights work‘Reggae has a long history of supporting human rights issues’ - Kerry Moscogiuri
Press release 30 Jul 2018 -
Manus Island: Inquest finds death of asylum seeker 'completely preventable'“Australian government must end this inhumane system for good” - Kate Schuetze
Press release 30 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Six more hanged in unprecedented execution spree in Japan
Following the executions of 7 members of Aum Shinrikyo (Aum), the remaining 6 men sentenced to death were hanged.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Russian court whistleblower released
Former court secretary and whistleblower Aleksandr Eivazov was released on 21 July.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action: Road to be built over individual and mass graves in Iran
The authorities are destroying the individual and mass graves of of political dissidents who were killed in Ahvaz.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jul 2018 -
Israel: Ahed Tamimi's release welcomed but other Palestinian children languish in jailAround 350 Palestinian children remain in Israeli prisons and detention centres
Press release 29 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action: Thousands of residents’ risk forced eviction in Kenya
Approximately 3,000 residents of the Deep Sea informal settlement in Nairobi are at imminent risk of forced eviction.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action: Independent journalist must be immediately released in Tajikistan
On 11 July, independent journalist and comedian Khairullo (Khayrullo) Mirsaidov was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
Urgent action outcomes 27 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: NGO worker’s administrative detention renewed in Israel
Israel court confirmed the renewal of the administrative detention of NGO worker and lawyer Salah Hammouri
Urgent action outcomes 27 Jul 2018 -
Syria: spate of death confirmations means 'fresh pain' for families of disappeared"At least 82,000 people have been subjected to enforced disappearance since the start of the conflict' - Diana Semaan
Press release 26 Jul 2018 -
Japan: 'unprecedented execution spree' continues as six more Aum cult members hangedThirteen people have now been executed for their involvement in the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway
Press release 26 Jul 2018 -
Italy: 'Cruel and callous' Roma eviction defies European Court rulingItalian authorities have today evicted dozens of families from a long-standing Roma camp in Rome, despite a recent stop order from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Press release 26 Jul 2018 -
US: Trump administration 'brazenly violates human rights' of separated familiesDeadline is looming for the Trump administration to reunite more than 2,500 children forcibly separated from their parents
Press release 26 Jul 2018 -
The rise of social media censorshipBlog post 26 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action Good News: Ohio governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 July, the Governor of Ohio commuted the death sentence of Raymond Tibbetts
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action: First execution in Nebraska since 1997 looms
The State of Nebraska is set to carry out its first execution in 21 years on 14 August.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2018 -
We Shall Fight Until We Win: Celebrating a century of pioneering political womenWe Shall Fight Until We Win: Celebrating a century of pioneering political women
Blog post 24 Jul 2018 -
UK: Shaw review reveals "worrying" increase in long-term immigration detention"Government ministers must urgently act on repeated findings demonstrating the need to end the harm of routine and excessive use of detention in the UK.” - Steve Valdez-Symonds
Press release 24 Jul 2018
