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Banned Books Week 2020
Each year during Banned Books Week, Amnesty International draws attention to people around the world who have been imprisoned, threatened, or murdered because of what they wrote or published or…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Detained Lawyer Denied Adequate Health Care (Egypt: UA 107.19)
Human rights lawyer and former parliamentarian, Zyad el-Elaimy, is being denied adequate health care by the Tora prison authorities, amid concerns that his underlying medical conditions put him at particular…
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Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender’s Life at Risk of Covid-19 (Iran: UA 105.15)
Imprisoned Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who suffers from serious pre-existing health conditions, is showing suspected COVID-19 symptoms. The authorities are putting her health and life at risk by…
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Urgent Action Victory! Activist Released from Psychiatric Hospital (Azerbaijan: UA 104.20)
Opposition activist Agil Humbatov was released from a psychiatric hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, on 1 July. He was forcibly placed there on 2 April after he criticized the authorities’…
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Urgent Action Update: Journalist Convicted But Given Lenient Sentence (Russian Federation: UA 42.20)
Russian journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva was found guilty of “justification of terrorism” and fined 500,000 roubles (about $7,000) on 6 July. The court rejected the prosecutor’s request to imprison her for…
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Urgent Action Victory! Activist Released from Psychiatric Hospital (Azerbaijan: UA 104.20)
Opposition activist Agil Humbatov was released from a psychiatric hospital in Baku, Azerbaijan’s capital, on 1 July. He was forcibly placed there on 2 April after he criticized the authorities’…
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Urgent Action Update: Man Executed for Crime When He Was 18 (USA: UA 108.20)
Billy Wardlow was executed on 8 July 2020. He was on death row in Texas, USA in connection with the 1993 murder of an 82-year-old man when he was just…
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Urgent Action Update: Monitoring of Threats to Lawmakers Continues (Venezuela: UA 1.20)
Venezuelan National Assembly opposition members, as well as their families and staff, continue being subjected to threats and attacks from Maduro’s government. During the COVID-19-related state of emergency, attacks against…
Press Release
Health Workers Globally are Silenced, Exposed and Attacked
Governments must be held accountable for the deaths of health and essential workers who they have failed to protect from COVID-19, Amnesty International said today, as it released a new…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Protect Human Rights Defender at Risk (Colombia: UA 67.20)
On 2 July, the Inter-Ecclesiastic Commission of Justice and Peace received confidential information about an ongoing plan to kill the Human Rights Defender Jani Silva. The plan is allegedly run…
Press Release
Withdrawal of U.S. from WHO Strikes a Devastating Blow to Global Health
As the Trump administration officially begins taking steps to withdraw the USA from the World Health Organization (WHO), Sanhita Ambast, Amnesty International’s Advisor on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, said:
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Urgent Action Update: Political Activist Arbitrarily Detained (Egypt: UA 116.19)
In May 2020, the authorities allowed Céline Lebrun Shaath, wife of prisoner of conscience and activist Ramy Shaath, to call him for the first time since his arrest. Ramy has…