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Aug 23 2019 10:12am
Urgent Action Outcome: Three men executed by firing squad in Bahrain
On 27 July 2019, Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab, Ahmed Isa Ahmed Isa al-Ma...
Aug 15 2019 12:59pm
Urgent Action update: Iranian-swedish academic forcibly disappeared
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali has been subjected to enfor...
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 4:47pm
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender sentenced to 12 years
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “...
Aug 2 2019 1:13pm
Saudi Arabia: wider women's rights reforms should follow guardianship announcement
Authorities urged to end their crackdown on women’s rights activists, ...
Aug 2 2019 11:22am
Equatorial Guinea: President Nguema's 'gruesome' 40 years of human rights abuses
‘Muzzling of dissent has had a devastating and chilling effect’ - Mart...
Aug 1 2019 2:25pm
Urgent Action update: 30 opposition figures sentenced to death
On 9 July 2019, the Huthi-run Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) of Sana...
Aug 1 2019 1:23pm
Iran: Kurdish singer flogged for drinking alcohol and 'insulting Islam'
Peyman Mirzazadeh reportedly flogged 20 times for ‘drinking alcohol’ a...
Aug 1 2019 12:28pm
Urgent Action update: Uyghur activist’s 30 relatives still detained
Up to 30 relatives of Uyghur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, who ...
Jul 31 2019 4:27pm
Egypt: scores of hunger-striking prisoners 'at breaking point'
130 prisoners are six weeks into protest over denial of family visits ...