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Urgent Action: Human Rights Defender Brutally Attacked (Equatorial Guinea: UA 189.18)
Alfredo Okenve, an Equatorial Guinea human rights defender was brutally attacked on 27 October by unknown armed men. He was later abandoned in a lonely area outside the city of…
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As Trump Weighs Indefinite Family Detention, Asylum-Seeking Children and Parents Continue to Languish in Limbo
While Trump’s proposal to detain asylum-seeking and migrant families indefinitely remains open to public comment for the next week, families who have already been detained for longer than the 20-day…
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Maldives: The tortuous ordeal of a prisoner in paradise
A Sri Lankan driver who has languished in prison in the Maldives for three years accused of involvement in a dramatic plot to assassinate the island's president has been denied…
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Leading journalists demand justice for Jamal Khashoggi
Leading journalists from around the world pay tribute to Jamal Khashoggi, the Saudi Arabian journalist who was murdered by Saudi state agents at the country’s consulate in Istanbul this month,…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Students’ Trial Ongoing, Despite Apology to Erdogan (Turkey: UA 131.18)
We have received updated information regarding this case and require no further action from the Urgent Action Network. Thank you to all those who sent appeals. For more information about…
Press Release
Brazil: Toxic speech must not become government policy
Reacting to the election of Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão as president and vice president of Brazil, Amnesty International said today: “The president-elect has campaigned with an openly anti-human-rights agenda…
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President Trump must abandon plan to close southern border to Central Americans seeking asylum
In response to reports that President Trump plans to take executive action blocking refugees and people seeking asylum from Central America from entering the United States to request protection, Erika…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Indigenous Environmental Rights Defender Killed (Mexico: UA 187.18)
Julián Carrillo was shot death on 24 October, after receiving several death threats for his work defending the territory of his Indigenous community in Mexico. He is the latest death…
Press Release
Amnesty India latest target of government crackdown
Amnesty India is the latest target of the Modi government’s assault on civil society. On Thursday, the Enforcement Directorate, an agency that looks into financial crimes, raided the organization’s office and froze…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory: Palestinian NGO Worker Released (Israel/OPT: UA 226.17)
On 30 September, Salah Hammouri, French-Palestinian lawyer and NGO worker, was released from Ketziot prison in southern Israel. He had spent one year in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Lawyer Released on Bail but Threat of Jail Remains (Russian Federation: UA 167.18)
Lawyer Mikhail Benyash, who had been detained since 9 September after meeting his client who had taken part in a peaceful protest against pension reforms in Krasnodar, Russia, was released…