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UA update: Activists released but still charged with rebellion in Indonesia
Hosea Yeimo and Ismael Alua, detained on 19 December for peaceful political demonstrations, have been released by the police. They are still being charged with rebellion (makar) and could face up to life imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mental health experts support clemency in USA
Ricky Gray is scheduled to be executed in Virginia on 18 January. More than 50 mental health professionals have written to the state governor in support of clemency in view of the prisoner’s childhood of severe sexual and physical abuse and its impact on…
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Website founder for 'inciting subversion' in China
Liu Feiyue, founder and director of Hubei-based human rights website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch” (www.msguancha.com), has been formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Violent repression of Mapuche peoples in Argentina
On 10 and 11 January security forces violently repressed members of the Mapuche community of Cushamen in Chubut, Argentina.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Kachin pastors missing after assisting journalists in Myanmar
Two ethnic Kachin pastors, who had been helping journalists report on military abuses in northern Shan State, have been missing since 24 December 2016.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Vigil for jailed British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - London, Monday 16 January (4pm)Press release 15 Jan 2017
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Bahrain: execution of three men is 'dark day for human rights' in the countryPress release 15 Jan 2017
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Iran: 12 prisoners face execution tomorrow for drugs offencesPress release 13 Jan 2017
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Benin: 14 prisoners still on death row in appalling conditions despite abolition of death penaltyPress release 13 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action: Hindu fisherman kept in unlawful detention in Bangladesh
Hindu fisherman Rasraj Das has been detained in Bangladesh since October 2016. He was arrested for allegedly posting an “offensive” image on Facebook and charged with “hurting religious sentiment”. He could face up to 14 years in prison if convicted.…
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Urgent Action: Malaysian national faces imminent execution in Singapore
Prabagaran Srivijayan, a Malaysian national, was convicted and sentenced to the mandatory death penalty on 22 July 2012 in Singapore. The execution could take place as early as next week.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Over 90 men killed in Brazilian prison riots
In the first week of January, over 90 men were killed (shot dead, beheaded or quartered) in prisons in Amazonas and Roraima states in northern Brazil, as a result of riots and conflicts between criminal gangs.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Iran: Former child bride executed after stillbirthZeinab was 15 when she left her family to marry Hossein. Soon after the wedding, Hossein started beating her. She asked for a divorce, but he refused. She told police, but they ignored her. After an unfair trial, Zeinab was executed on 2 October 2018.
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CAR: Urgent need to rebuild justice system as war crime suspects 'roam free'Press release 11 Jan 2017
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Malawi: Killing of man with albinism underscores past policing and criminal justice failuresPress release 11 Jan 2017
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Our final plea to Obama to close GuantánamoIt's been 15 years since the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo, the US naval base in Cuba infamous for its shocking human rights record of torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.
11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist threatened by Chechen official in Russian Federation
The speaker of the Chechen parliament used his Instagram account to threaten prominent journalist Grigory Shvedov on 6 January.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Veteran activist sentenced to death in China
A court in China’s Henan province has convicted and sentenced Xu Youchen to death for killing a policeman when authorities were taking him and his wife away for peaceful petitioning.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist in Libya tortured and at risk of expulsion
Jabir Zain, an activist residing in Libya, continues to be detained in an unknown location over 100 days following his enforced disappearance by a militia in Tripoli.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Four human rights activists gone missing in Pakistan
Since the beginning of January activists Salman Haider, Waqas Goraya, Asim Saeed, and Ahmed Raza Naseer have gone missing in a suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces in Pakistan.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017
