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Trump's ban on transgender people in military is 'based on bigotry'Press release 26 Jul 2017
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UK: petrol/diesel car ban - child labourers 'must not pay the price'Press release 26 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Bahraini human rights defender charged
Bahraini human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was charged on 18 July by the Terrorism Crime Prosecution with using her human rights work as a cover to provide Alkarama Foundation with information and fake news about the situation in Bahrain.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender facing intimidation in Nigeria
Human rights defender Maurice Fangnon was detained at the Nigerian Police Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department in Abuja accused of providing police with false information that a member of a powerful royal family was responsible for…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Imprisoned journalist must be released in Ukraine
Stanislav Aseev, a freelance journalist, who was missing for several weeks, is held by the Russia-backed separatists from the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) in eastern Ukraine. They accuse him of “espionage”.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: 14 Saudi Arabian men could face execution
The families of 14 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death fear that they are at risk of execution after they were transferred to Riyadh on 15 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Multiple concerns as Missouri execution set
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for a 1998 murder. He maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
UK: 50 years since homosexuality decriminalised, still a long way to go to equality, warns AmnestyPress release 26 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action: Activists deported from Saudi Arabia detained in Sudan
Activists Elgassim Mohamed Seed Ahmed, Elwaleed Imam Hassan Taha and Alaa Aldin al-Difana were deported from Saudi Arabia to Sudan on 11 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Vietnam: 'outrageous' jailing of land rights activist is latest in growing crackdownPress release 25 Jul 2017
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EU: Mogherini urged to raise issue of jailed activists with Turkish ministerPress release 25 Jul 2017
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Fourteen men at imminent risk of beheading as Saudi Arabia continues execution spreePress release 25 Jul 2017
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Turkish foreign minister's allegations threaten country's human rights movementPress release 25 Jul 2017
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Israeli forces carry out violent hospital raids in ruthless display of forcePress release 25 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Court stays mental exam of university lecturer in Uganda
Dr Stella Nyanzi, an academic and feminist, will not be subjected to a mental health examination after a magistrate court ordered a stay of the examination on 25 May. Dr Stella Nyanzi was released on conditional bail by the same court on 10 May.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Resumption of executions looms in Ohio
Ronald Phillips is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 26 July. He was sentenced to death in 1993 for a murder committed earlier that year when he was 19 years old. He is now 43. This would be the first execution in Ohio in three and a half years.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
South Sudan: "epidemic of sexual violence" leaves thousands in mental distress - new reportPress release 24 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Activist and his lawyer released without charge in DRC
Jean-Marie Kalonji, an activist with the youth movement Quatrieme voie/ il est temps, and his colleague and lawyer Sylva Mbikayi were released without charge on 17 July. The two had been held in incommunicado detention by military intelligence agents…
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Poland: Presidential veto is a step back from the brinkPress release 24 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: Several men arbitrarily held in poor conditions in South Sudan
George Livio Bahara, one of the men arbitrarily detained at a prison at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in Juba, was released on 25 May. Mike Tyson, another detainee, died on 29 June at the NSS prison.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017