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Detention and Imprisonment (187)
Aug 31 2021 11:39am
Urgent Action Outcome: Human rights defender released
On 17 July, the Egyptian authorities provisionally released journalist...
May 25 2021 6:46pm
Belarus: Urgent action needed to free Roman Protasevich after 'horrifying' forced confession
Amnesty International launches urgent action following televised state...
Apr 29 2021 3:06pm
Urgent Action outcome: Ailing professor granted bail, charges remain
Professor Muhammad Ismail was finally granted bail by the Peshawar Hig...
Apr 9 2021 3:47pm
Bahrain: more than 70 new Covid cases in major outbreak at Jaw prison
Prisoners not given face masks or hand sanitiser despite overcrowded c...
Mar 18 2021 7:36am
COVID-19: Prisoners 'forgotten victims' of the pandemic - New Report
More than 11 million people imprisoned globally, prisons becoming hotb...
Mar 11 2021 2:05pm
Syria 10 Years On - Assad’s Pyrrhic Victory
By Kristyan Benedict - @KreaseChan It is not uncommon to hear comm...
Feb 26 2021 2:39pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Deportation of Chechen man suspended
A.S., a Chechen man who was held in immigration detention in France fa...
Feb 26 2021 11:50am
UK/Iran: 'countdown to reunion' for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
After five years in detention, the UK national is due for release on 7...
Feb 24 2021 10:28pm
Ecuador: mass deaths in prisons violence must be fully investigated
79 inmates reportedly died in violence in various prisons yesterday ...
Feb 23 2021 3:51pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Pastor Steven Tendo released from detention
Steven Tendo is a 35-year-old pastor and asylum-seeker who fled from t...