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Kaiser Chiefs unveil new human rights film during UK tourPress release 22 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Sentenced to death based on 'confessions' in IraqBrothers Mahmoud Tale’ Nayef and Taleb Tale’ Nayef were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 9 August 2016 based on “confessions” extracted under torture. Taleb Tale’ Nayef remains at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Necessary medical treatment denied to prisoner in Vietnam
Prisoner of conscience Đinh Nguyên Kha is being denied medical treatment following an operation to remove a tumour from his stomach three months ago, which could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Three years and counting for exercising his right to freedom of speech: Free Leopoldo LopezWe took over 2,000 signatures of support to the Venezuelan Embassy to call for the release of Leopoldo, a prisoner of conscience detained for his non-violent political activities
Blog post 21 Feb 2017 -
Annual Report: Hateful, toxic rhetoric creating a dangerous and divided worldPress release 21 Feb 2017
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Resisting the banThe human impact of President Trump's hateful rhetoric becoming policy is all too real. But so is the resistance. We are looking at how people around the world are taking a stand.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous community at risk due to threats in Peru
More than 60 heavily armed individuals entered Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community territory in the Central Peruvian rainforest and forced out 21 families by subjecting them to death threats.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Donald Trump is alienating his most valuable alliesIn pushing this travel ban, Trump is alienating some of his most important allies in the fight against terror — the other people who have suffered at the hands of armed groups like the one calling itself Islamic State. Read our analysis.
Blog post 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds of peaceful marches attacked by police in Vietnam
Around 700 men, women and children were attacked by police while on the way to submit legal complaints against Formosa Plastics, with damages amounting to US$20 million.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists could be charged for exposing torture in Thailand
A decision by the Public Prosecutor on whether to prosecute three human rights defenders on criminal defamation and compu
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Urgent Action update: Growing health fears for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Denied proper medical treatment by prison authorities since April 2015, when she was first diagnosed with a tumour on her uterus, Trần Thị Thúy is no longer able to walk without assistance.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Five questions the UK government must answer regarding arms to Saudi ArabiaAs we wait for the outcome of the legal challenge to the UK government's continuing arms sales to Saudi Arabia, here are five questions the UK government must answer. They owe it to us, and more so, to the people of Yemen.
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Northern Ireland: women’s rights must not be traded away in post-election talksPress release 20 Feb 2017
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Trump visit demo, London (Mon 20 Feb): activists to protest at human rights 'roll-back'Press release 17 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Man arrested at 17 faces imminent execution in Iran
The execution of Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested when he was just 17 years old, has been rescheduled for 18 February. He continues to be held in solitary confinement in Lakan prison in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, further exacerbating his…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Paramilitary incursion in Humanitarian Zone in Colombia
A group of paramilitaries entered the Humanitarian Zone of Nueva Esperanza en Dios in the Cacarica river basin in north-west Colombia looking for several individuals which they claimed were on a death list.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Still no information on hundreds of missing Rohingya
Four months after the launch of major security operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of detained Rohingya are still unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders held incommunicado in Vietnam
Within 10 days of each other, three unassociated Vietnamese human rights defenders were arrested in January and are currently being held in incommunicado pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Lucha activist released without charge in the DRC
Musasa Tshibanda, an activist from the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was released on 8 February.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner in solitary confinement for months in Morocco
Ali Aarrass has been held in prolonged solitary confinement since his transfer to Tifelt II Local Prison on 10 October 2016. His health has sharply deteriorated as a result.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017
