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Aug 19 2019 11:29am
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender needs urgent medical care
Human rights defender Joaquín Elo Ayeto is in urgent need of medical a...
Aug 15 2019 4:02pm
Urgent Action outcome: Dr. Scott warren new trial slated for november
Dr. Scott Warren was facing 20 years in prison for providing humanitar...
Aug 15 2019 11:55am
Urgent Action update: Jailed cancer patient tortured in prison
Critically ill prisoner of conscience and human right defender Arash S...
Aug 9 2019 3:30pm
Urgent Action update: Activists released on bail, awaiting trial
The trial of seven activists, charged with treason for attending a tra...
Aug 9 2019 12:35pm
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking labour rights activist at risk
Labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been on hunger strike since...
Aug 9 2019 12:02pm
Urgent Action: Grassroots women activist held incommunicado
Chen Jianfang, a devoted grassroots human rights defender has been hel...
Aug 8 2019 2:52pm
Urgent Action update: A decade in jail for defying forced veiling
Two Iranian women’s rights defenders, Yasaman Aryani and Monireh Arabs...
Aug 5 2019 2:31pm
Urgent Action update: Land defenders in Río Blanco still at risk
On 16 July, the Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations of H...
Aug 2 2019 12:56pm
Urgent Action update: Lawyer of Xinca people still under threat
Lawyer Quelvin Jimenez reported that on 23 June a group of people, car...
Jul 31 2019 8:43pm
Israel: death threats made against Amnesty and other civil society organisations
Messages sprayed outside Amnesty office, while further threats and a d...