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Northern Ireland: Mother and Baby Home victims call for public inquiryPress release 14 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action: Hundreds stranded at Mexico–Guatemala border
Approximately 400 people from rural Guatemala are stranded at the Mexico-Guatemala border in temporary shelters and tents, without adequate access to water, food, or medical supplies, after a Guatemalan court order was executed to evict them.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Torture survivor released in Chechnya
Murad Amriev was handed over to Russian law enforcement officers at 3am on 9 June after having been returned from Belarus where he unsuccessfully attempted to claim asylum. He has been released on bail on condition that he does not leave Chechnya.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Australia: Compensation deal must lead to safe resettlement for refugeesPress release 14 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action update: Release Chechen man returned to Russia
Chechen torture survivor Murad Amriev was handed over to the Russian authorities by Belarusian police at 3am on 9 June in what amounts to a rendition.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Health risks for detainee in isolation for 232 days in Morocco
Following seven months of prolonged solitary confinement, Ali Aarrass' health condition has critically deteriorated. He is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence in Tifelt II Local Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
“Indi’s fight for human rights should not end with him.”Amnesty supporter Indi Bachada died suddenly last year. Since then, his loved ones have raised thousands of pounds in his memory.
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Urgent Action: Activists detained for shoe factory research in China
Three labour activists who were conducting undercover research investigations into the labour conditions at Huajian shoe factories, which supply to Ivanka Trump’s brand among others, were taken away by the authorities in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in late…
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Gaza: slashed power supply to Gaza risks a humanitarian catastrophePress release 14 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action update: NGO leader charged under 'foreign agents’ law in Russian Federation
On 2 June, prominent Russian human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko was officially charged with “malicious evasion from performance of duties” under the “foreign agents” law.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Release Amnesty International Chair Taner Kılıç detained in TurkeyChair of Amnesty International Turkey Taner Kılıç was detained on 6 June, wrongly accused of membership of the “Fethullahist Terrorist Organization”. On 9 June he has been remanded in pre-trial detention. The charges against him must be dropped and he…
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Student activists on trial by military court in Thailand
Jatupat ‘Pai’ Boonpattararaksa and six other law students from Khon Kaen University are on trial at a military court for taking part in a peaceful demonstration on 22 May 2015, the first anniversary of a military coup in Thailand.
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Malawi: new wave of killings and attacks against people with albinismPress release 13 Jun 2017
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Tunisia: man jailed for smoking during RamadanPress release 13 Jun 2017
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Hungary: New NGO law a 'vicious and calculated' assault on civil societyPress release 13 Jun 2017
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UN highlights the shame of Ireland's harsh abortion lawsPress release 13 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action update: Chadian activist granted provisional release
Chadian activist Maoundoe Decladore Djikoldingam has been granted provisional release by an investigating judge pending an investigation into his case, and so that he can receive medical treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jun 2017 -
USA: after another court defeat, Trump should drop 'discriminatory' Muslim travel banPress release 12 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Unsafe refugee camps in Greece evacuated
The three refugee camps in the Elliniko area, Athens, were evacuated on 2 June. The majority of refugees and migrants still in the sites were transferred by bus to alternative camps.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Jun 2017
