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Reggie Yates, Maya Jama, Joel Dommet and Gemma Cairney to host Give A Home living room gigsPress release 07 Sep 2017
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Palestine: cybercrime charge against prominent Hebron activist condemnedPress release 07 Sep 2017
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Australians urged to vote 'Yes' on marriage equalityPress release 07 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action: Poet in China detained after commemorating Liu Xiaobo
Poet Wu Mingliang, better known as “Langzi” (literally “Wanderer”), has been criminally detained on suspicion of “illegal business operations”. Previously held for questioning after co-signing a letter in support of Liu Xiaobo, Amnesty International…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detainee in Venezuela held incommunicado again
After being disappeared for 23 days, Raúl Isaías Baduel is once again being held incommunicado at the National Intelligence Service facilities in Caracas, denied access to his family and lawyers. His family is concerned for his physical and mental…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Diane Abbott talks about "sheer levels of hatred" she receives onlinePress release 06 Sep 2017
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Amnesty shop student letter06 Sep 2017
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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi's office 'downplaying' Rakhine crisisPress release 06 Sep 2017
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Campaigning to free Kamal Foroughi, the longest imprisoned EU citizen in IranFree Kamal Foroughi, the longest imprisoned EU citizen in Iran
Blog post 06 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained student activist risks ill-treatment in Sudan
Naser Aldeen Mukhtar Mohamed, the former chairperson of the Darfur Students’ Association at the Holy Quran University, was arrested on 22 August in Khartoum by National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) agents.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Leaving not losing – rights, freedoms and equalities in the Brexit billBritain is withdrawing from the EU and we must ensure the hard-won rights people enjoy today will be the same on the day we leave.
Blog post 06 Sep 2017 -
UK is 'lending cover' to Bahrain as it pursues human rights crackdown - new reportPress release 06 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action update: Human rights defender remain in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was removed from solitary confinement following a two-day hunger strike in protest at her conditions of detention. She is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Indian PM Modi must press for civilian protection in Rakhine during Burma visitPress release 05 Sep 2017
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Egyptian authorities' blocking of NGO website condemnedPress release 05 Sep 2017
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Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death in Iran
On 27 August a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri to death for “spreading corruption on earth” for establishing the spiritual group Erfan-e Halgheh. He has been held in solitary confinement for over six years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Independent news director detained in Azerbaijan
Mehman Aliyev, the director of independent news agency Turan, has been arbitrarily detained since 24 August on what appears to be trumped up charges of tax evasion and other offenses in retaliation for his work as a critical journalist.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Rohingya: the deadly situation in Myanmar explainedTens of thousands of people are at risk of serious human rights violations in Myanmar, and aid efforts have been shut down. Help us call on the authorities to take action now.
05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Maldives to resume executions by September
According to statements by the Maldives President, the death penalty would be implemented 'by the end of September'. If carried out, these would be the first executions in the country in over 60 years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017
