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Jamaica: Amnesty International supporters take half a million actions to end impunity for unlawful police killings
Accompanied by relatives of people killed by police across the Americas, Amnesty International today delivered 64,331 letters and signatures to the office of Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness as part…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! – 35 Ill and Injured Evacuated from Eastern Ghouta (Syria: UA 275.17)
A further 35 patients awaiting medical evacuation in besieged Eastern Ghouta have been evacuated to Damascus city for medical treatment and care. 496 patients are still awaiting evacuation. They require…
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SYRIA: Seven years of catastrophic failure by the international community
To mark the seventh anniversary of the Syria conflict, Amnesty International is calling for the international community to assume its responsibilities and urgently act to end the suffering of millions…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! – 35 Ill and Injured Evacuated from Eastern Ghouta (Syria: UA 275.17)
A further 35 patients awaiting medical evacuation in besieged Eastern Ghouta have been evacuated to Damascus city for medical treatment and care. 496 patients are still awaiting evacuation. They require…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: 10 Year Death Row Case Pushed For Execution (Viet Nam: UA 52.18)
Ho Duy Hai was sentenced to death in December 2008 after being convicted of plundering property and murder. In 2015, the Committee on Judicial Affairs of the National Assembly urged…
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El Salvador: Government must decriminalize abortion following release of woman jailed for stillbirth
Maira Verónica Figueroa MarroquÃn, a 34-year-old woman who spent 15 years in prison after suffering a stillbirth, was released from prison on Tuesday following the reduction of her 30-year sentence…
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Philippines: Duterte’s misguided ICC withdrawal comes too late to stop wheels of justice
Responding to Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s pledge to withdraw the country from the International Criminal Court today (ICC), Amnesty International’s Regional Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific James Gomez…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Singapore Sets Second Execution in a Week (Singapore: UA 56.18)
The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd has been scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018 took place. The Singaporean man was convicted of, and…
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Bangladesh: International support for Rohingya refugees is urgently needed
Responding to the news that UN officials have called for nearly $1bn (USD) in assistance for the nearly one million Rohingya refugees living in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar District, Amnesty International’s…
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Remaking Rakhine State
Myanmar’s Rakhine State is being militarized at an alarming pace, as authorities are building security force bases and bulldozing land where Rohingya villages were burned to the ground just months…
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Urgent Action Victory! – Cartoonist Released After Charges Dropped (Equatorial Guinea: UA 219.17)
Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist, Ramón Esono Ebalé was released from Malabo prison of Black Beach on 7 March. Eight days earlier on 27 February, the charge of ‘counterfeiting money’…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Health Concerns For Jailed Belarusian Activist (Belarus: UA 54.18)
23-year old Belarusian activist, Dzmitry Paliyenka, is serving a two-year prison sentence for peacefully opposing restrictions on cyclists. He is being exposed to conditions that exacerbate his asthma and denied…