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Urgent Action Update: Unsafe Refugee Camps In Greece Evacuated (Greece: UA 93.17)
The three refugee camps in the Elliniko area, Athens, were evacuated on 2 June. The majority of refugees and migrants still in the sites were transferred by bus to alternative…
Press Release
Afghanistan: Security forces open fire on protesters voicing anger over Kabul blast
Responding to the Afghan security forces opening fire today on crowds protesting insecurity in the wake of the May 31 bombing in Kabul, Biraj Patnaik, Amnesty International’s South Asia Director,…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Sick Elderly Iranian Activist On Travel Ban (Iran: UA 120.17)
Elderly human rights defender Dr Mohammad Maleki, 84, is being prevented from leaving Iran to visit his children in the Netherlands and Canada. The authorities have placed him on a…
Press Release
Venezuela: Authorities’ militarization of crisis escalates violence and promotes fear
The increased deployment of military forces to repress protests, the rise in excessive use of force against protesters and others, and the use of military courts to try to silence…
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Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activists Held Under Administrative Detention (India: UA 128.17)
G Thirumurugan Gandhi, D Arun Kumar, M Tyson, and Ilamaran were arrested on 21 May 2017 for attempting to stage a peaceful memorial for Tamils killed in the final stages…
Victory
Urgent Action Victory! Journalists Cleared Of Criminal Defamation (Timor Leste: UA 230.16)
On 1 June, a Dili court cleared Raimundos Oki and Lourenco Vicente Martins of all charges against them. The two Timorese journalists were on trial on criminal “defamatory false information”…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Victory! Journalists Cleared Of Criminal Defamation (Timor Leste: UA 230.16)
On 1 June, a Dili court cleared Raimundos Oki and Lourenco Vicente Martins of all charges against them. The two Timorese journalists were on trial on criminal “defamatory false information”…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: Activist Detained Incommunicado For 17 Days (Saudi Arabia: UA 125.17)
Saudi Arabian human rights defender Ali Shaaban has been detained incommunicado since 15 May, raising fears that he might be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He may be…
Event
1st Annual Amnesty OKC Human Rights Defender Awards
Amnesty International OKC will begin presenting three annual human rights awards in 2017 * David C. Craighead Human Rights award * Amnesty OKC Member of the Year * Student Activist…
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Event
Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
For four days, death penalty abolitionists from around the country will gather at the steps of the Supreme Court to call for an end to capital punishment in the United…
Press Release
Bahrain heading for ‘total suppression’ of human rights as secular opposition group banned
Bahrain’s dissolution of a major political opposition society is the latest troubling move in its blatant campaign to end all criticism of the government, Amnesty International said.
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Press Release
USA: Trump’s expected decision to leave the global climate deal could result in a human rights catastrophe of epic proportions
In response to reports that President Donald Trump is expected to pull the USA from the Paris Agreement on climate change, Margaret Huang, executive director of Amnesty International USA said:
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