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Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Back – Updates on the Death Penalty in 2023
On 16 May, Amnesty International released its annual Death Sentences and Executions report which documents the global developments on the use of the death penalty in 2022. As the restrictions…
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Amnesty International Urges the Biden Administration to End the Asylum Ban and Investigate Operation Lonestar
Responding to reports of family separation and more deaths - including the death of a child - at the buoys in the Rio Grande River as part of Texas Governor…
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Global: Pledge to Allow ‘Peaceful Assembly’ at COP28 Highlights the UAE’s Lack of Freedoms
“COP28 will not bring about the ambitious action required to avert a climate catastrophe if the host state’s laws restrict freedom of expression and peaceful assembly, and throttle civil society.”
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Urgent Action: YOUTH UNJUSTLY JAILED IN RELATION TO PROTEST (Egypt: UA 73.23)
Badr Mohamed is serving an unjust five-year prison sentence following his conviction in January 2023 in connection to the Ramsis Square protests on 16 August 2013, when he was 17…
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Urgent Action: UNJUSTLY JAILED COUPLE HELD INCOMMUNICADO (Egypt: UA 55.22)
Aisha el-Shater, daughter of a Muslim Brotherhood senior figure, and her husband lawyer Mohamed Abo Horeira, who were transferred to the 10th of Ramadan prison on June 1 and May…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS AT RISK, 40+ DAYS OF VIGIL (Bolivia: UA 65.23)
84-year-old human rights defender Amparo Carvajal has spent over 45 days in vigil in cold temperatures outside the Permanent Assembly on Human Rights in Bolivia (APDHB) in La Paz. On…
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Urgent Action: SPANISH CITIZEN HELD INCOMMUNICADO (Russia: UA 69.23)
Mariano García Calatayud, a 75-year-old Spanish volunteer humanitarian worker, was forcibly disappeared by the occupying Russian authorities on March 19. 2022 in the Ukrainian city of Kherson. He disappeared after…
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Urgent Action: JOURNALIST’S CONVICTION UPHELD ON APPEAL (Burundi: UA 13.23)
On May 2, 2023, the Court of Appeal of Mukaza in Bujumbura, Burundi, upheld the conviction of Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye for “undermining the integrity of the national territory” and…
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Urgent Action: STUDENTS ARRESTED FOR PEACEFUL PROTEST (Zimbabwe: UA 66.23)
On May 17, six University of Zimbabwe students, Benjamin Watadza, Emmanuel Chitima, Comfort Mpofu, Lionel Madamombe, Gamuchirai Chaburumunda and Darlington Chigwena, were arrested for staging a peaceful protest in Harare,…
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Urgent Action: UYGHUR STUDENT CONVICTED FOR PROMOTING EXTREMISM (China: UA 33.23)
Kamile Wayit, a 19-year-old Uyghur female university student was sentenced on 25 March 2023 under the charge of “promoting extremism” after posting a video on WeChat about the November 2022…
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Urgent Action: WOMAN DISAPPEARED AMID POSSIBLE FEMICIDE (Argentina: UA 67.23)
Cecilia Strzyzowski (28 years old) has been missing since June 1. She was last seen with her husband, César Sena, in Resistencia, Province of Chaco, Argentina. Her disappearance is being…
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Urgent Action: IMPRISONED NURSE’S CONDITION DETERIORATES (Russian Federation: UA 28.23)
Irina Danilovich, a nurse and human rights activist from Russian-occupied Crimea is still being denied healthcare. She was abducted by Russian security officials in April 2022 and sentenced to seven…