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Urgent Action correction: Virginia USA execution reset as doubts persistIvan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 25 April. He maintains his innocence of the 2001 murder for which he was sent to death row in 2006.
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Urgent Action: Indigenous defenders denied right to defence in ArgentinaOn 20 March the oral trial against three members of the Chañaral Wichí Indigenous community for defending their territory will take place. These legal proceedings violate their right to defence and access to justice.
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Forty pairs of shoes go on display in London to highlight student disappearances in MexicoPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action: Four families in USA detained for over 500 days
Four young children and their mothers are seeking asylum in the US after escaping horrific violence in their home countries.
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Urgent Action update: Two Sudanese dissidents interrogated for activism in Saudi Arabia
Two Sudanese nationals, who till 13 February had been held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia since their arrest on 21 December 2016, have been interrogated by the Saudi Arabian authorities about their social media activism and are now awaiting trial.
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Urgent Action: Clemency board in USA to hear what jury never did
Marcel Williams, aged 46, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April. The jury never heard any mitigating evidence about his childhood of severe abuse and trauma.
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Giant 'Yemen dead' gravestone to be erected in Parliament Square in protest at UK arms salesPress release 20 Mar 2017
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UAE: alarm at middle-of-the-night arrest of leading human rights activistPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Amnesty announces judging panel for children's book honourPress release 20 Mar 2017
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Urgent Action update: Brothers hurriedly executed in secretive manner in Malaysia
Despite a pending clemency application before the state’s Pardon Board, brothers Suthar Batumalai and B. Rames Batumalai were executed at dawn on 15 March 2017.
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Urgent Action update: Three Bahrainis executed by firing squad
On 15 January the Bahraini authorities executed three men by firing squad. Seven others continue to serve life sentences which were upheld by the Court of Cassation on 9 January along with the three death sentences.
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Urgent Action good news: Palestinian journalist to be released from detention in Israel
Palestinian journalist Muhammed al-Qiq suspended his hunger strike on 10 March 2017 after he learned that the Israeli authorities were not renewing his administrative detention order. He is expected to be released on 10 April.
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Urgent Action good news: Algerian activist Dahmane Kerami released
Algerian activist Dahmane Kerami was released on 31 December 2016 after spending one year behind bars for participating in 2014 and 2015 in peaceful social protests in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria.
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Urgent Action: Stop journalist's forcible return from Russia to Uzbekistan
Journalist and activist Khudoberdi Nurmatov (also known as Ali Feruz) is at risk of being forcibly returned from Russia to Uzbekistan.
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Additional contact details: Over 300 displaced due to paramilitary action in Colombia
An incursion by paramilitaries and subsequent armed confrontation between them and guerrilla groups forced a mass displacement of families and the potential confinement of surrounding communities in Peña Azul, Chocó department, in north-western Colombia.
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Exclusive Albert Woodfox podcast to launch series two of Amnesty's 'In Their Own Words'Press release 17 Mar 2017
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Qatar: International Labour Organisation should continue probe into migrant worker abusePress release 17 Mar 2017
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It's a human right to agitate the 'injustice' systemA year ago I walked out of a Louisiana prison a free man after serving 44 years in solitary confinement.
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Podcast: Albert Woodfox on surviving 44 years in solitaryAlbert Woodfox has endured longer in solitary confinement than anyone else in the US. When he was imprisoned in Louisiana in the 1970s, racism was rife. Albert took a stand - and it cost him. Hear why Albert was punished over the odds and how he survived…
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Last night we won against the Muslim ban - here’s why we have to keep fightingOvernight, two courts intervened to temporarily block Trump’s new Muslim ban, which was set to go into effect at midnight. This is a vindication for human rights and public outrage. The trouble is, he has many more of these policies.
Blog post 16 Mar 2017
