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Urgent Action: Journalist Accused of “Justification of Terrorism” (Russian Federation: UA 142.18)
Victor Korb, a human rights defender and journalist, is being unjustly prosecuted for “public justification of terrorism” on account of publishing the final statement of the person whose rights he…
Press Release
Mexico: Authorities’ claims of progress on disappearances in Nuevo Laredo ring hollow
Mexico’s federal authorities continue to overlook key lines of investigation into the disappearances of 36 people in the northern border city of Nuevo Laredo, while failing to protect the victims’…
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Victory
Urgent Action Victory! – Indigenous Leader Ends 2 Month Hunger Strike (Chile: UA 75.18)
After nearly two months on a hunger strike, Mapuche Indigenous spiritual leader Machi Celestino Córdova is granted access to his ceremonial altar to carry out a renewal ceremony, essential to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! – Indigenous Leader Ends 2 Month Hunger Strike (Chile: UA 75.18)
After nearly two months on a hunger strike, Mapuche Indigenous spiritual leader Machi Celestino Córdova is granted access to his ceremonial altar to carry out a renewal ceremony, essential to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: 42 Months in Prison for Forcibly Returned Activist (China: UA 259.15)
According to a Chinese media report, Dong Guangping was sentenced to 42 months in prison almost one year after his trial in July 2017. No notification about the trial or…
Press Release
Coroner’s findings on preventable death of Iranian asylum seeker on Manus Island must prompt government action
In response to today’s damning coronial inquest findings into the tragic death of Hamid Khazaei, an Iranian man who died in Australia in 2014 from an infection acquired in the Manus Island…
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Amnesty Group 86 Cincinnati OH August Meeting
Join our Amnesty chapter in Cincinnati as we move forward on actions, after a great tabling event at the KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER Rally on June 30th. Our August meeting will…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Activist Released, Appeal Against Conviction Ongoing (Indonesia: UA 34.18)
Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, known as Budi Pego, was released from prison on 1 July 2018. Sentenced to 10 months behind bars for “crimes against the state security” on 24…
Press Release
Trump Administration Brazenly Violates Human Rights of Separated Families
Today marks the court-ordered deadline for the Trump administration to reunite more than 2,500 children forcibly separated from their parents despite seeking protection. More than 900 parents remain separated from…
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Press Release
Chile: Life of imprisoned Indigenous leader is in imminent danger
In response to the dry hunger strike that Machi Celestino Córdova, a Mapuche spiritual leader who is currently imprisoned, convicted of homicide induced by arson, has begun in protest of…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Road to Be Built Over Individual and Mass Graves (Iran: UA 140.18)
The families of political dissidents who were forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially killed in Ahvaz, southern Iran, in the 1980s are suffering untold mental anguish and distress as the authorities are…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! – Russian Court Whisteblower Released (Russian Federation: UA 228.17)
On 18 July, St Petersburg’s Kalininsky District Court sentenced former court secretary and whistleblower Aleksandr Eivazov to one year and ten months in an open penal colony for “interfering with…