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Urgent Action: 14-Year-Old Egyptian boy tortured to confess
Egypt’s National Security Agency subjected 14-year-old Aser Mohamed to enforced disappearance for 34 days. The boy claims that he was tortured and ill-treated to confess to offences he did not commit.
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 -
Calais: Whilst UK and French politicians squabble, people smugglers are the only ones to profitPress release 30 Aug 2016
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Film screening (London): Syria documentary 'Little Gandhi' - Fri 16 Sept 2016Press release 30 Aug 2016
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Israel's trial of World Vision charity worker must not be held in secretPress release 29 Aug 2016
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Ukraine: New overwhelming evidence of secret detention centres emerges after 13 people releasedPress release 28 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action: Pro-Biafran activist shot and abducted in Nigeria
Sunday Chucks Obasi (30) was abducted in Amuko Nnewi Anambra State on 16 August by armed men suspected to be Nigerian security agents who had a vehicle with a government registration plate. He was injured during the incident. His whereabouts remain…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
Northern Ireland: Amnesty International concern at hate crime figuresPress release 26 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action update: Librarian's case sent back for investigation in Russia
The Moscow Prosecutor General’s office refused to sign the indictment against Natalya Sharina and the case was sent back for further investigation. It is expected that Natalya Sharina’s house arrest will be extended on 26 August. She is a prisoner of…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
France: decision to overturn burkini ban 'draws important line in the sand'Press release 26 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience subject to ill-treatment in Vietnam
Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, a human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, serving a 16-year sentence has been transferred to a remote prison in northern Viet Nam.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jordan border closure worsens refugees' condition
Since Jordan sealed its border with Syria, around 80,000 refugees have been stranded in a desert area known as the ‘berm’, subjected to sand storms and searing heat. They are still not receiving essential and life-saving assistance.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Pro-Biafran activist shot and abducted in Nigeria
Sunday Chucks Obasi (30) was abducted in Amuko Nnewi Anambra State on 16 August by armed men suspected to be Nigerian security agents who had a vehicle with a government registration plate. He was injured during the incident. His whereabouts remain…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
Asylum: UK Government compelling far too many people into perilous journeys and exploitationPress release 25 Aug 2016
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France's Burkini ban 'promotes humiliation'Press release 25 Aug 2016
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Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award 2016 shortlist announcedPress release 25 Aug 2016
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Egypt: 'shocking' police attack on prisoner at moment of expected releasePress release 25 Aug 2016
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Philippines: President must call a stop to 'open season' as nearly 2,000 killed in two monthsPress release 24 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action: Asylum seekers, refugees at risk of deportation in Djibouti
For the past month, Djiboutian authorities have been rounding up and detaining hundreds of Ethiopian asylum seekers and refugees with the aim of deporting them back to Ethiopia.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Aug 2016 -
UA update: 81-year-old journalist detained without charge in Bangladesh
Shafik Rehman, an 81-year-old Bangladeshi journalist arrested on 16 April, is still detained without charge in Dhaka Central Jail more than four months after his arrest.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Aug 2016