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Urgent Action Update: Lawyer Refused Access to Detained Activist (China: UA 274.16)
Liu Feiyue, the founder and director of Hubei-based website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch” (www.msguancha.com) who is facing charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, has been again unable to…
Press Release
Iran: Stop increasingly ruthless crackdown and investigate deaths of protesters
Iranian authorities must ensure the right to peaceful protest, investigate reports that security forces have unlawfully used firearms against unarmed protesters and protect hundreds of detainees from torture and other…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Missing Bangladeshi Academic Returned Home (Bangladesh: UA 252.17)
Mubashar Hasan, a well-known Bangladeshi academic who went missing and was feared to have been subject to an enforced disappearance, was returned home on 22 December, after 44 days.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Missing Bangladeshi Academic Returned Home (Bangladesh: UA 252.17)
Mubashar Hasan, a well-known Bangladeshi academic who went missing and was feared to have been subject to an enforced disappearance, was returned home on 22 December, after 44 days.
Report
Less equal: LGBTI human rights defenders in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan
Discrimination, homophobia and Russia’s crusade against non-traditional sexual relationships have helped fuel a worrying rise in hostility towards LGBTI human rights groups in parts of the former Soviet Union said…
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The Rohingya Crisis
Stop the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar now. Ongoing crimes against humanity have forced over 688,000 Rohingya to flee their homes. The Problem The Rohingya people in Myanmar are being subjected…
Press Release
Amnesty International appoints Kumi Naidoo as next Secretary General
Amnesty International has appointed Kumi Naidoo as the next Secretary General of the global human rights movement. From August 2018 Kumi will succeed Salil Shetty, who served two terms as…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Poland’s President Approves Judicial Overhaul Bills (Poland: UA 173.17)
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…
Report
Somalia: Refugees pressured to leave Dadaab return to insecurity, drought and hunger
Thousands of Somali refugees who were pressured into leaving the Dadaab camp in Kenya are now facing drought, starvation and renewed displacement in Somalia, Amnesty International said today.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Egypt Continues To Arrest Government Critics (Egypt: UA 277.17)
On 16 November, security agents in plain clothes arrested Egyptian social media figure Islam al-Refaei. The Egyptian authorities ordered him to be detained on the trumped-up charge of “belonging to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Venezuela To Run Out Of Antiretrovirals In 2018 (Venezuela: UA 280.17)
The Venezuelan government has reportedly not yet signed an urgently needed order for the purchase of vital antiretroviral medication in Venezuela, putting the lives of at least 77,000 people living…
Press Release
Myanmar: ‘Outrageous’ denial of access to top UN official
Reacting to the news that the Myanmar authorities have denied access to UN Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee, James Gomez, Amnesty International’s Director for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, said the…
