Winter Groups News 2017
The Winter issue of Groups News covers great activities that Amnesty groups have organised during last few months.
Urgent Action update: Refugees forcibly removed from Australian detention centre in PNG
There are ongoing concerns as hundreds of refugees are forcibly relocated from the Lombrum detention centre.
Urgent Action update: Grave health fears for Indian paralysed activist in prison
Disabled activist and teacher, G N Saibaba continues to be denied access to adequate medical treatment in prison.
Urgent Action: Border officials forcibly separate families in USA
US border agency officials forcibly separated four Central American asylum-seeking fathers from their children.
Urgent Action: Defender accused of undermining state security in Burundi
Defender Nestor Nibitanga was arrested in Gitega on 21 November.
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer in China sentenced to 2 years in prison
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been sentenced to two year of imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent Action: Egyptian ativists and prisoner of conscience in detention
Mahienour El-Masry has been detained on remand on 18 November, alongside activist Moataseem Medhat.
Urgent Action: Chechen asylum-seeker feared disappeared in Russian Federation
Chechen asylum-seeker Imran Salamov, may have been subjected to an enforced disappearance.
Urgent Action update: Rights lawyer abused and at risk of torture in China
Li Yuhan, a sixty-year-old human rights lawyer, has been formally arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
Urgent Action good news: Execution called off in death chamber in USA
The execution of Alva Campbell was called off on 15 November and the governor set a new date of for 5 June 2019.