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Urgent Action update: Human Rights Defender's sentence upheld
Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld the 2 year prison sentence against human rights defender Nabeel Rajab.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Women's Rights Defender threatened with death
Sanièce Petit Phat, a Haitian women and girls’ rights defender, has reported receiving death threats because of her work.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Sahrawi prisoner's health critically deteriorating in Morocco
Abdeljalil Laaroussi’s health is critically deteriorating. He has been on hunger strike since 20 November 2017.
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Urgent Action Update: Russian authorities block activist's releaseUrgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017
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Urgent Action: Bedouin community at risk of explusion
The Israeli army has issued an expulsion order which will forcibly evict 58 Palestinian Bedouin families in the area of J
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Urgent Action: Health fears for poet under illegal house arrest in China
Liu Xia wrote a letter expressing her deep depression and loneliness under house arrest.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience needs medical care in Venezuela
Prisoner of conscience Villca Fernández is being denied access to specialized medical treatment. His health deteriorates.
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Amnesty slams today's executions in Japan as 'bloody stain' on their human rights recordPress release 19 Dec 2017
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Urgent Action: Bahamian man at risk after detention
Bahamian man's whereabouts unknown after being detained by immigration authorities for over three months.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Palestinian Human Rights Defender released
Hasan Safadi, Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, was released
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Killings of land claimant leaders
Two land claimant leaders of collective Afro-descendent territories in Chocó have been killed by paramilitary groups.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Human rights defender aquitted of all charges
Pastor Evan Mawarire was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
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Urgent Action Update: Cartoonist held in pre-trial detention in Equatorial Guinea
Ramón Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist and activist, is charged with counterfeiting money and held in pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action End Action: Court rejects activist's appeal
The Kirovskii District Court rejected Evdokia Romanova's appeal against her prosecution.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Good news: your 2017 human rights victoriesYou’ve spoken out like never before. You’ve marched, you’ve protested, and you’ve petitioned authorities and governments everywhere. In 2017, it has made a huge difference.
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Dispatches from Scotland: Bonface MassahBonface Massah, Director of the Association of People with Albinism visited the UK in November 2017.
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Crimea: trial of more than 70 Tatar activists latest move in Russia's crackdownPress release 18 Dec 2017
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Nepal: Migrant workers still being 'mercilessly' exploited - new surveyPress release 17 Dec 2017
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Urgent Action: Former journalists charged with espionage
Two former journalists for US-based Radio Free Asia in Cambodia were detained on trumped-up charges of espionage
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Urgent Action: Pakistani Activist's whereabouts unknown
Raza Khan, a Pakistani peace activist, has not been seen or heard from since 2 December
Urgent action outcomes 15 Dec 2017
