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Urgent Action Victory! Journalists Out Of Immediate Danger (Paraguay: UA 154.17)
Menchi Barriocanal and Oscar Acosta, Paraguayan journalists and married couple who were threatened with imprisonment by President Horacio Cartes, have stopped receiving threats and seem to be out of immediate…
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USA: Florida set to conduct its first execution in a year and a half
Ahead of a planned resumption of executions in Florida on 24 August, 18 months after the last one, Amnesty International is issuing a paper on recent developments relating to the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Journalists Out Of Immediate Danger (Paraguay: UA 154.17)
Menchi Barriocanal and Oscar Acosta, Paraguayan journalists and married couple who were threatened with imprisonment by President Horacio Cartes, have stopped receiving threats and seem to be out of immediate…
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Urgent Action Victory! Four Families Ordered Released From Detention (USA: UA 59.17)
On 17 August, four-year-old Carlos and 16-year-old Michael along with their mothers, Lorena and Maribel (all names changed to protect their identities), were ordered released from Berks County Residential Center…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Four Families Ordered Released From Detention (USA: UA 59.17)
On 17 August, four-year-old Carlos and 16-year-old Michael along with their mothers, Lorena and Maribel (all names changed to protect their identities), were ordered released from Berks County Residential Center…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: Harassment of Dissident Iranian Cleric Must End (Iran: UA 78.14)
Dissident Iranian cleric Seyed Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi has faced continued intimidation and death threats by the Iranian authorities since his release from prison on 4 January. He is under 24…
Press Release
Marcellus Williams Faces Execution Despite Doubts about Conviction
The state of Missouri is scheduled to execute Marcellus Williams on August 22 despite a lack of solid evidence used to secure his conviction and a new report from a…
Press Release
Philippines: 32 killed in a day as Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ hits new levels of barbarity
After Philippine police killed 32 people in what is believed to be the highest death toll in a single day in President Rodrigo Duterte's so-called "war on drugs", Amnesty International’s…
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Screening: “8 Borders, 8 Days”
Joins us for a special screening of Amanda Bailly's enlightening documentary "8 Borders, 8 Days," and a post-film panel discussion regarding the ongoing refugee crisis in Syria and the world.…
Press Release
Thailand: Activist Sentenced for Posting Article to Facebook
Reacting to the guilty verdict against pro-democracy activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa (“Pai Dao Din”), who was today sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for violating Thailand’s lèse-majesté law outlawing criticism of…
Press Release
At least 60 killed as police shootings of drug suspects skyrocket in Indonesia
The number of police killings of suspected drug dealers has skyrocketed in Indonesia this year, an alarming rise which signals that authorities could be looking to emulate the murderous “war…
Press Release
Attempts to shut down human rights groups in Kenya is unlawful and irresponsible
Responding to attempts by Kenya’s NGO regulator to shut down two human rights organizations – the Kenya National Human Rights Commission (KHRC) and the African Centre for Open Governance (AfriCoG),…