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Urgent Action Update: Uyghur Academic Reappears on State Broadcast (China: UA 14.20)
Held incommunicado for three years, prominent Uyghur historian and publisher Iminjan Seydin suddenly reappeared in a video published by state-run English newspaper China Daily on 4 May 2020. In what…
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Urgent Action Update: Human Rights Defender Detained and Tortured (Egypt: UA 16.20)
Human rights defender Patrick Zaki George, who suffers from asthma, is at particular risk if exposed to COVID-19 in Tora Investigation Prison. On 5 May 2020, Supreme State Security prosecutors…
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UN must not cut vital aid lifeline to north-west Syria amid Russian and Syrian war crimes
A new Amnesty International report, 'Nowhere is safe for us': Unlawful attacks and mass displacement in north-west Syria, details 18 cases – the majority in January and February 2020 –…
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Amnesty International Local Group 40, Ames, Iowa Monthly Meeting
All are invited to participate in our monthly activists gathering, which has gone virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Each month we come together to discuss local and global human rights…
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Evening with Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, end gun violence advocate
Amnesty International USA is joining millions of voices to #WearOrange as we confront one of the most pressing human rights crises in the country: Gun Violence. Nearly 100 people die…
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Palestine must end arbitrary detention of critics in West Bank and Gaza
The Fatah-led Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and the Hamas de facto administration in the Gaza Strip must halt violations of the right to freedom of expression, in particular arbitrary detentions,…
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Urgent Action: Activist Arrested and Detained (Nigeria: UA 73.20)
On 28 April, Mubarak Bala, a prominent Nigerian humanist, was arrested by police officers at his home in Kaduna, north-western Nigeria, and accused of blasphemy after he wrote a post…
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Urgent Action: Evicted Residents Vulnerable to Covid-19 (Kenya: UA 75.20)
Despite obtaining interim orders from the Environment and Lands Court halting the evictions, more than 7,000 households of Kariobangi Sewerage Farmers Slum, Korogocho Market, Kisumu Ndogo and Nyayo Village, Nairobi,…
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Urgent Action Update: Rakhine Journalist Remains in Hiding (Myanmar: UA 87.19)
Aung Marm Oo, an ethnic Rakhine Editor-in-chief of a news agency based in Rakhine State, has been in hiding for more than a year after charges were filed against him…
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Defense Department undercounts civilian casualties in new reporting
Responding to the Pentagon’s report on U.S. civilian casualties to Congress, Daphne Eviatar, the director of the Security with Human Rights program at Amnesty International USA stated: “The Department of…
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Amnesty International USA Calls on DHS to Temporarily Halt Deportations
On May 6, 2020, Amnesty International USA wrote to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf demanding an immediate, temporary moratorium on deportations in light of the dangers presented by…
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Urgent Action Update: Women Human Rights Defenders Remain on Trial (Saudi Arabia: UA 105.18)
Eight of the eleven activists have been temporarily released but remain on trial for their human rights activism. Activists Loujain al-Hathloul, Nouf Abdulaziz and Maya’a al-Zahrani remain in detention. Despite…