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Sri Lanka: Attacks another grim reminder of the need to tackle hate
The shocking Sunday morning bombing attacks targeting churches and hotels in three cities in Sri Lanka resulting in more than 290 deaths and leaving more than 500 people injured, is yet…
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Leonard Peltier
Leonard Peltier, an Anishinabe-Lakota Native American, is a federal prisoner serving two consecutive life sentences for the murders of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in 1975. Amnesty International…
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Turkey: Love wins as ‘outrageous ban’ on all LGBTI events in Ankara is lifted
Reacting to the news that an Ankara administrative appeals court has today lifted the blanket ban on all Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex events in place in the capital…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Thousands in Need of Urgent Protection (Colombia: UA 52.19)
7,000 persons from Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Bojayá, Chocó (western Colombia) face live-threathening and forced displacement risk as the guerrilla National Liberation Army (Ejército de Liberación Nacional, ELN) and…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Tiananmen “Baijiu” Activist Sentenced to Jail (China: UA 138.16)
Sichuan activist Chen Bing was sentenced to three and a half years after he and three other activists were convicted of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for producing and promoting…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Falun Gong High School Teacher Detained (China: UA 50.19)
Falun Gong practitioner and chemistry teacher Chen Yan is facing a trial in April 2019 after she was detained for distributing Falun Gong materials on a street in Beijing. She…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Disappeared Activist at Risk of Torture (China: UA 212.17)
Gao Zhisheng, a former prisoner of conscience and human rights lawyer, is subject to enforced disappearance. No information about his whereabouts are known since he was taken away from his…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Activist, Opposition Members Await Trial (Zimbabwe: UA 34.19)
Activist Rashid Mahiya and opposition Members of Parliament Charlton Hwende and Joanna Mamombe are awaiting trial on the charge of ‘subverting a constitutional government’. The charge attracts a sentence of…
Press Release
Libya: Release migrants and refugees trapped in detention centers amid escalating clashes
Responding to a news report that more than 700 refugees and migrants in Libya were trapped in a detention center in Qasr bin Ghasher in close proximity to intense armed…
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Nicaragua: State must put an end to a year of brutal repression
Ahead of the first anniversary of the Nicaraguan government’s violent crackdown on protests over social security reforms on 18 April 2018 – the beginning of a dark chapter of state…
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Afghanistan: ICC refuses to authorize investigation, caving into USA threats
The International Criminal Court’s decision not to authorize an investigation into crimes committed in Afghanistan under international law marks a shocking abandonment of victims and will further weaken the court’s…
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Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Anti-Military Peaceful Protester Released Early (Myanmar: UA 188.18)
Activist Tin Maung Kyi was released 13 days early on 29 March 2019 after serving six months and two days in prison. He was imprisoned for staging a solo protest…