What is the Urgent Action Network?
The concept is simple: Take Action, Change a Life.
Urgent Actions ask our community of volunteers to flood the mailboxes, inboxes, phones and social media of authorities when someone is in imminent danger of human rights violations. Your letters, emails, phone calls, faxes and Tweets have helped to halt executions, support human rights defenders and free prisoners of conscience—people jailed solely for the peaceful expression of their beliefs and identity.
Please note that the US postal service has suspended service to some countries in light of COVID-19 – reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.
How Does It Work?
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STEP 1: Sign Up Today!
Sign up to receive Urgent Action emails. You can choose to receive all emails or a more limited number. You can also choose to receive emails on specific issues or regions.
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STEP 2: Take Action Now!
Urgent Action emails specify the case, local and international government officials to contact, their contact information and suggestions about what to write, say or Tweet.
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Our Educator’s Guide
Are you an educator looking for ways to engage your students in human rights? Find out how your students can show their power through letter writing!
In many cases, your action on these cases leads to better conditions for prisoners and their eventual release. Those individuals at the center of these Urgent Actions often send their thanks to Amnesty International, citing that these messages serve as a source of hope.
The reason we could resist the ban and move forward was the international support and solidarity by Amnesty International activists around the world. We could not have gone further without your support.
I am very grateful for all the support I received while I was in prison. Life in prison was very difficult and I was treated badly, but the support of those who believed in me made me strong.
My case once again showed how important solidarity and attention are in protecting the freedom of speech and human rights. I admire your noble work and boundless courage, dear activists.
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Urgent Action: FREE PROMINENT OPPOSITION LEADER (Azerbaijan 38.20)
Share: On This Page On December 14, 2023, the Azerbaijani authorities arrested a prominent opposition figure and unrelenting government critic, Tofig Yagublu, on spurious forgery and fraud charges. A wave…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER’S WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN (Equatorial Guinea 21.24)
Anacleto Micha Ndong, an Equatoguinean human rights defender, was sent to the Malabo prison of Black Beach on pre-trial detention on March 1. He has been accused of outrage and…
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Urgent Action: URGE PAROLE FOR NATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST (USA 16.19)
Native American activist Leonard Peltier (Bureau of Prisons Register Number 89637-132) has been imprisoned in the USA for nearly 50 years, some of which was spent in solitary confinement, for…
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Urgent Action: JOURNALIST AND POET ABDUCTED IN PAKISTAN (Pakistan 46.24)
On May 15, 2024, Ahmad Farhad, a Kashmiri journalist and poet, was forcibly disappeared from his home in the capital city of Pakistan, Islamabad, and his whereabouts remain unknown. The…
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Urgent Action: OVER 100 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARBITRARILY ARRESTED (Bangladesh 48.24)
Since April 7, over 100 Indigenous Bawm people have been arbitrarily arrested as part of an ongoing military operation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in southeastern Bangladesh. They are accused…
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Urgent Action: RISK OF PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTIONS AFTER UNFAIR TRIALS (Iran 103.22)
At least eight individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising of 2022, and nine others have been arbitrarily executed following grossly…
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Urgent Action: DEFENDERS SPIED BY AUTHORITIES (Mexico 47.24)
In 2016, staff of the Specialized Sub-Attorney General’s Office for Organized Crime Investigation (SEIDO) of the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico (PGR), now the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime…
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Urgent Action: LAWYER ARRESTED OVER PUBLIC REMARKS (Tunisia 43.24)
On May 11, 2024, security forces, masked and in civilian clothing stormed the Bar Association offices in Tunis to arrest lawyer and media personality, Sonia Dahmani. On May 13, an…
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Urgent Action: EXECUTION RISK FOR TORTURED DISSIDENT RAPPER (Iran 44.24)
Dissident rapper, Toomaj Salehi, is at risk of execution after a Revolutionary Court in Esfahan sentenced him to death in April 2024 solely in relation to his participation in the…
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Urgent Action: DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST AHMAD KHALEFA (IOPT 25.24)
Ahmad Khalefa, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is a lawyer, human rights defender, community organizer, and newly elected city council member. On October 19, 2023, Israeli police violently arrested him…
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Urgent Action: DISAPPEARANCES STRATEGY PUTS SEARCH AT RISK (Mexico 1.24)
On December 14, 2023, president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and representatives of the Ministry of the Interior shared the results of the Disappeared Persons Search Strategy. This strategy…
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Urgent Action: EDUCATION ACTIVIST ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Afghanistan 9.24)
Ahmad Fahim Azimi and Seddiqullah Afghan, activists working with the education organization, Fekre Behtar, were arbitrarily arrested at their office in Karta Char, Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, by the…