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Mar 26 2019 4:36pm
Urgent Action outcome: Chechen human rights defender jailed
On 18 March the Shali City Court sentenced Oyub Titiev, head of the Me...
Mar 21 2019 12:01am
Amnesty Presents: The Human Rights Defenders
NOT ALL SUPERHEROES WEAR CAPES. AMNESTY UK PRESENTS THE HUMAN RIGH...
Mar 18 2019 3:08pm
Urgent Action update: Women activists on trial
On 13 March 2019, 11 women activists were brought to trial at the Crim...
Mar 18 2019 11:17am
Urgent Action update: Restrictions on released human rights lawyer
Immediately after being released from prison on 28 February 2019, huma...
Mar 14 2019 3:54pm
Urgent Action update: 38 years and 148 lashes for women’s rights defender
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenc...
Mar 14 2019 2:24pm
Urgent Action: Activist and opposition members charged with treason
Activist Rashid Mahiya and Members of Parliament with the opposition, ...
Mar 14 2019 12:30pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender allegedly tortured
Human rights defender Joaquín Elo Ayeto was arrested on 25 February at...
Mar 12 2019 4:13pm
Brazil: Arrests are first sign of progress in investigation into killing of Marielle Franco
Responding to reports that Brazilian police have arrested two men in R...
Mar 11 2019 2:42pm
Urgent Action: Turkey must release civil society figures
Osman Kavala, Yiğit Aksakoğlu and 14 other prominent civil society fig...
Mar 11 2019 10:01am
Urgent Action: Indigenous community attacked by armed men
The Ysati Indigenous community in the district of Itakyry (department ...