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Urgent Action Update: A Decade in Jail for Defying Forced Veiling (Iran: UA 96.19)
Two Iranian women’s rights defenders, Yasaman Aryani and Monireh Arabshahi, have each been sentenced to 16 years in prison, while a third, Mojgan Keshavarz, has been sentenced to 23 years…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Charges Against Mauritanian Bloggers Dropped (Mauritania: UA 49.19)
All the charges against bloggers Cheikh Jiddou and Abderrahmane Weddady were dropped by a judge, who also dismissed the case against them, on 29 July. Their travel and identification documents…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Charges Against Mauritanian Bloggers Dropped (Mauritania: UA 49.19)
All the charges against bloggers Cheikh Jiddou and Abderrahmane Weddady were dropped by a judge, who also dismissed the case against them, on 29 July. Their travel and identification documents…
Press Release
Global Human Rights Movement Issues Travel Warning for the U.S. Due to Rampant Gun Violence
Amnesty International today issued a travel warning calling for possible travelers and visitors to the United States to exercise extreme caution when traveling throughout the country due to rampant gun…
Update
Travel Advisory: United States of America
The Amnesty International travel advisory for the country of the United States of America calls on people worldwide to exercise caution and have an emergency contingency plan when traveling throughout…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Uyghur Woman Held Incommunicado for 2 Years (China: UA 222.17)
Buzainafu Abudourexiti continues to be held in incommunicado detention after she was suddenly detained in March 2017 and sentenced in a secret trial to seven years in prison. There is…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Young Man at Imminent Risk of Execution (Sudan: UA 103.19)
Amnesty International is alarmed that the Constitutional Court of Sudan confirmed the death sentence against Abbas Mohammed Nur Musa on 20 May 2019. Abbas had appealed his death sentence after…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Labor Activists Held in Secret Detention (China: UA 37.19)
Wei Zhili (pictured below) and Ke Chengbing, both editors of labor rights news and advocacy website “New Generation” (xinshengdai), have been held in incommunicado detention since March 2019. Their detention…
Press Release
Demonizing Immigrants and Mental Health Conditions Is Not A Solution to Gun Violence
Responding to President Donald Trump’s speech following a spate of mass shootings over the weekend, Ernest Coverson, Amnesty International USA’s End Gun Violence campaign manager said: “Gun violence reform cannot…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activist Held Incommunicado for Months (China: UA 67.19)
Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held incommunicado since 8 January 2019. The editor-in-chief of iLabor.net / “New Generation” (Xinshengdai), an independent website covering workers’ rights stories,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Activists Released on Bail, Awaiting Trial (Zimbabwe: UA 76.19)
The trial of seven activists, charged with treason for attending a training in the Maldives, has yet to begin due to the authorities’ lack of preparedness. The activists have appeared…
Press Release
Amnesty International USA Response to El Paso Shooting
Responding to a mass shooting that occurred in a mall in El Paso, Amnesty International USA End Gun Violence campaign manager Ernest Coverson issued the following statement: