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Urgent Action: Student activist arrested for facebook posts in Bangladesh
Dilip Roy, a 22-year-old student activist, has been arrested in Rajshahi in Bangladesh after making two Facebook posts criticising Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Omid Kokabee granted conditional release in Iran
Iranian physicist Omid Kokabee, who was on medical leave following his surgery for advanced kidney cancer, has been granted conditional release.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Spit hoods 'little more than glorified sack' which can be 'cruel and dangerous'Press release 06 Sep 2016
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Urgent Action update: Bangladeshi political leader executed
Mir Quasem Ali, a senior member of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami, was executed on 3 September. The Supreme Court rejected his review petition on 30 August and he did not seek clemency from the President.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Northern Ireland: Amnesty supports Lord Chief Justice’s call on legacy inquestsPress release 05 Sep 2016
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G20 "burden sharing" call on refugee crisis hypocriticalPress release 05 Sep 2016
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'Farcical' that Russian blogger faces five years in jail for playing Pokémon Go in a churchPress release 05 Sep 2016
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Team Refugees make history at Rio 2016This summer, for the first time ever, ten refugee athletes competed on the world’s stage at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Uzbekistan: President Karimov's death unlikely to improve human rightsPress release 02 Sep 2016
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Gabon: Security forces must stop using excessive force amid post-election violencePress release 01 Sep 2016
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Yvette Cooper to call for action on refugee crisis in Belfast speechPress release 01 Sep 2016 -
Anniversary of Alan Kurdi drowning highlights continuing global shameOne year after the body of Alan Kurdi was washed up on a beach in Turkey, thousands of refugees continue to die in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas. The public outcry should have marked a political turning point, but the global response to the refugee crisis since Alan’s death has been an utter disaster.
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Urgent Action update: Beaten and still detained after bail was paid in Egypt
One week since Islam Khalil’s bail of 50,000 Egyptian pounds (US$5,510) was paid, the 27-year-old survivor of enforced disappearance and torture has yet to be released.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Activists summoned by police risk imprionment in Thailand
Police have summoned six individuals, including two staff of a human rights organization, in relation to a criminal investigation into a “Speak for Freedom” event held on 31 July. All six are expected to report to the police station on 31 August.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Disappeared man freed from secret detention in Ukraine
Dmytro Koroliov was released on 2 August after spending one year in secret detention in the Security Service of Ukraine compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2016 -
DRC: Release of Congolese pro-democracy activists 'rare, positive step'Press release 30 Aug 2016
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Rio 2016: A legacy of police killings and repressed protestsBlog post 30 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action update: Detained Chinese activist end hunger strike
Imprisoned Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) ended his hunger strike on 18 August after being moved to another prison and promised humane treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Five men in secret detention in Ukraine
Authorities must urgently release five men believed to be in secret detention in the Security Service’s compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2016
