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Urgent Action: Taiwan NGO worker held incommunicado in ChinaLee Ming-cheh is the first foreign NGO worker to be detained after the new Foreign NGO Management Law went into effect and is under investigation for “endangering national security”. No direct contact has been made with him since he first went missing on…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017 -
UAE: prominent academic jailed for ten years over tweetsPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Urgent action update: Free Syrian refugee from unlawful detention in Greece
Noori, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee, continues to be unlawfully detained in a police station on the Greek island of Lesvos. He has been in detention since 9 September and is awaiting to find out whether he will be forcibly returned to Turkey under the EU…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017 -
Football Welcomes: Clubs to celebrate contribution refugees have made to football - 22/23 AprilPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Article 50: EU nationals in Northern Ireland must have rights guaranteedPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Bahraini student in detention alleges torture
Bahraini student Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab was arrested on 9 February and taken to the Criminal Investigations Directorate where he alleges he was tortured and forced to “confess”. He has been denied access to a lawyer. Upon transfer to Dry Dock Prison…
Urgent action outcomes 29 Mar 2017 -
What does Brexit mean for human rights?It’s official, the Prime Minister has triggered Article 50 and we are leaving the European Union. There’s been much speculation over what this will actually mean for the UK and those living here. Here are just a few of the things to watch out for.
Blog post 29 Mar 2017 -
Article 50: Government should ensure human rights are protected"Article 50...could be an opportunity to shape British society for the better," says @KateAllenAI of @AmnestyUK.
Press release 29 Mar 2017 -
Democratic Republic of the Congo: deaths of two UN experts must be fully investigatedPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Jordan: Arrest Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and surrender him to the ICCPress release 29 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Defender sentenced in Cuba after criticizing Castro
Cuban authorities sentenced human rights defender Eduardo Cardet to three years in prison after holding him in provisional prison in Holguín, south-east Cuba, since November 2016. He is a prisoner of conscience who must be released immediately and…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Fair trial concern revisited as execution looms in Arkansas, USA
Stacey Johnson, aged 47, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 20 April for a 1993 murder. Three state Supreme Court Justices argued that he was deprived of a fair trial by being denied access to information regarding the credibility of a key…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
South Sudan: Release all people arbitrarily detained amid the conflictPress release 28 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Trial ongoing against indigenous defenders in Argentina
Despite the fact that the oral trial scheduled for 20 March against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory was suspended, the legal proceedings which violate their right to defence and access to justice…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Bipolar disorder not raised at trial for man set to be executed in USA
Jack Jones, aged 52, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April for a murder committed in 1995. The jurors who sentenced him to death did not know he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a serious mental disability, shortly before the crime.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Vote on regressive torture bill imminent in Mexico
The Mexican lower house of Congress has until 30 April to vote on the General Law on Torture. The current version of the bill has amendments that, if passed, would increase impunity for torture and undermine access to justice in relation to torture…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Fifth and final activist in Abdeen case released in Egypt
Gamila Seryel-Dain, the last jailed activist from the group of five activists sentenced in the ‘Abdeen case’ to two years in prison for violating Egypt’s repressive 2013 protest law, was released on 14 March after receiving a presidential pardon. All…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Hearing set for prisoner tortured in detention in Morocco
Morocco’s Court of Cassation will hear Ali Aarrass on 29 March, four years after he lodged an appeal. He is serving a 12-year prison sentence after being unfairly convicted based on evidence obtained under torture. He has been in solitary confinement…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Forced evictions continue in Lagos, Nigeria
Over 4000 residents of Otodogbame waterfront community in Lagos, Nigeria were on 26 March forcibly evicted from their homes by Lagos State officials. No notice was issued to the residents prior to the forced eviction. Several residents were injured…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Mar 2017 -
Mosul, Iraq: civilians killed by coalition airstrikes after being told not to fleePress release 28 Mar 2017
