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Urgent Action Victory! Human Rights Defenders Released (Egypt: UA 166.20)
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer, directors at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), were released and are now safely home with their…
Press Release
Governments and Police Must Stop Using COVID-19 Pandemic as Pretext for Abuse
Abusive policing and excessive reliance on law enforcement to implement COVID-19 response measures have violated human rights and in some instances made the health crisis worse, Amnesty International said today.
Event
Immigration and Human Rights in Honor of Human Rights Day
Please join Amnesty International Group 30 and the Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Humanist and Nontheist Group for a thoughtful panel discussion about immigration and human rights in a…
Update
Statement for Record For Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on Hong Kong & U.S. Refugee Policy (12.15.2020)
On December 15, 2020, Amnesty International USA submitted this statement to Chairman Cornyn, Ranking Member Durbin, and Members of the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration in advance of the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Tortured Detainee Denied Medical Care (Belarus: UA 173.20)
Viachaslau Rahashchuk is a taxi driver from the Belarusian city of Pinsk who was arbitrarily detained in 10 August and remains behind bars. He is in need of urgent medical…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Tortured Sufi Prisoner Must be Released (Iran: UA 172.20)
Behnam Mahjoubi, from Iran’s persecuted Gonabadi Dervish religious minority, is being subjected to torture and other ill-treatment, including through the denial of specialist medical care. He is a prisoner of…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Crimean Tatar Rights Defender Sentenced (Russian Federation: UA 150.19)
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentenced by a Russian military court on 16 September to fourteen years in a strict regime penal colony. Server Mustafayev must…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Activist Returned to Pakistan and Freed (Bahrain: UA 11.20)
On 8 March 2020, the Bahrain authorities forcefully returned Geelaman Pashteen a Pashtun human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) to Pakistan. Geelaman Pashteen was later…
Update
AIUSA Letter to HFAC on 2021 International Human Rights Priorities
On December 10, 2020, Amnesty International USA addressed a letter to the House Foreign Affairs Committee outlining the organization’s international human rights priorities for 2021. Click here to read the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Rohingya Refugees Detained on Remote Island (Bangladesh: UA 169.20)
The Bangladeshi authorities relocated more than 1,600 Rohingya refugees to Bhashan Char, a remote island at the Bay of Bengal, on 4 December 2020. Despite the fact that it has…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Activist Returned to Pakistan and Freed (Bahrain: UA 11.20)
On 8 March 2020, the Bahrain authorities forcefully returned Geelaman Pashteen a Pashtun human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) to Pakistan. Geelaman Pashteen was later…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Jailed Opposition Leader in Critical Condition (Bahrain: UA 139.11)
Prisoner of conscience, Hassan Mshaima, one of 11 jailed Bahraini opposition leaders, continues to be denied adequate healthcare in detention. Over the past two months he was admitted to the…