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Urgent Action: Woman Human Rights Defender Facing Threats Online (Mozambique: UA 10.19)
Woman human rights defender Fátima Mimbire has been receiving intimidating messages on social media from unknown people since 18 January. These threats began after she took up an active role…
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Urgent Action: TV Producer Held in North Korea for 50 Years (South Korea: UA 13.19)
Hwang Won, a former TV producer from South Korea, was not allowed to return to his home country after arriving involuntarily to North Korea on a hijacked plane on 11…
Report
Hope flickers as justice still proves elusive in Sri Lanka
In 2015, Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 at the UN Human Rights Council to demonstrate the newly elected government’s commitment to break with impunity for a past marked by serious…
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Urgent Action: Forty-Seven Students Held Incommunicado, One Killed (Sudan: UA 9.19)
Forty-seven students of Darfur origin remain in incommunicado detention after security agents arrested them in raids on their homes on 23 and 27 December 2018 in Sinnar and Khartoum states.…
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Urgent Action Update: Activist Arbitrarily Detained for Almost 6 Months (South Sudan: UA 143.18)
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, has been arbitrarily detained by the National Security Service (NSS) for almost six months. The activist has yet to be…
Press Release
Amnesty International and National Immigrant Justice Center Send Senior Leadership Delegation to US-Mexico Border
Amnesty International and the National Immigrant Justice Center are sending an international delegation of senior leadership to monitor the impact of US policy on asylum seekers and migrants traveling to…
Press Release
Saudi Arabia: Independent investigation urgently needed amid more reports of torture and sexual abuse of activists
Amnesty International has obtained new reports of torture and abuse inflicted on a group of Saudi Arabian human rights activists who have been in arbitrary detention since May 2018. These…
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Urgent Action: Human Rights Defender Under House Arrest (Russian Federation: UA 8.19)
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an Open Russia human rights defender from Rostov-on-Don, in southern Russia, was put under house arrest and may face up to six years in prison…
Press Release
Iran’s ‘year of shame’: More than 7,000 arrested in chilling crackdown on dissent during 2018
The Iranian authorities carried out a shameless campaign of repression during 2018, crushing protests and arresting thousands in a wide-scale crackdown on dissent, said Amnesty International, a year after a…
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Urgent Action Victory! Anti-Slavery Activists Released (Mauritania: UA 164.18)
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud were released from Nouakchott civil Prison on 31 December 2018. The Tribunal of Arafat in Nouakchott sentenced them to…
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Urgent Action Victory! Mauritanian Anti-Slavery Activists Released (Mauritania: UA 164.18)
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud were released from Nouakchott civil Prison on 31 December 2018. The Tribunal of Arafat in Nouakchott sentenced them to…
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Urgent Action: Canadian Sentenced to Death in a One-Day Retrial (China: UA 7.19)
Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian national, was sentenced to death after he was convicted of drug trafficking at his re-trial. First arrested in 2014, he was convicted and sentenced to 15…