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Urgent Action: FINGER AMPUTATION RISK FOR EIGHT PRISONERS (Iran: UA 59.22)
At least eight prisoners in Greater Tehran Penitentiary, Tehran province, are at grave risk of having their finger-amputation sentences carried out imminently. At least three of the men were convicted…
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Urgent Action Update: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS MURDERED (Brazil: UA 54.22)
On the morning of June 5, 2022, Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips, environmental and Indigenous peoples’ rights defenders, were disappeared in the Javari Valley, in the Brazilian Amazon. On June…
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Urgent Action: REPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS-LED PROTESTS (Ecuador: UA 58.22)
On June 14, 2022, around 0:29 a.m., security forces detained Leónidas Iza, president of the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, in the province of Cotopaxi. He was held incommunicado…
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Urgent Action: TEXAS EXECUTION SCHEDULED FOR CRIME AT 18 (USA: UA 57.22)
Ramiro Gonzales is scheduled to be executed in Texas on July 13, 2022. He was sentenced to death in September 2006 for a murder committed in January 2001 when he…
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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – June 2022 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured Domestic Updates International Updates In Case You Missed It june 2022 NEWSLETTER FEATURED: End Gun Violence End Gun Violence rally at…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE HUNGER-STRIKING ACTIVISTS (Thailand: UA 56.22)
Since June 2, 2022, two women have been on hunger strike calling for their right to bail. They have been detained since May 3, 2022. Authorities have started criminal proceedings…
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Michelle Bachelet Has Just Months Left to Address Her Failures on China
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet announced today that she will not be seeking a second term when her current one ends in August, but said that…
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Hundreds Killed in Relentless Russian Shelling of Kharkiv – New Investigation
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv by indiscriminate Russian shelling using widely banned cluster munitions and inherently inaccurate rockets, Amnesty International said today.
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U.S. Health, Development & Human Rights Groups: WTO Fails Basic “Do No Further Harm” Test on Eve of Ministerial
On the eve of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Ministerial meeting, U.S. health, human rights, consumer and development organizations denounced the WTO for failing to lift intellectual property barriers that have…
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Urgent Action: UNJUSTLY JAILED COUPLE TRIED BY EMERGENCY COURT (Egypt: UA 55.22)
Aisha el-Shater, 41, daughter of Muslim Brotherhood senior leader Khairat el-Shater, and her husband lawyer Mohamed Abo Horeira are on trial by the Emergency State Security Court on bogus charges…
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Public Outreach Telephone Fundraising
Fundraising Partners of Amnesty International USA Frequently Asked Questions Your support will help continue the fight for human rights! You may get a phone call from Amnesty International fundraisers to…
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Urgent Action: ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS DISAPPEARED (Brazil: UA 54.22)
In the morning of June 5, 2022, environmental and Indigenous peoples’ rights defenders Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips were reported missing, after last being seen in the Javari Valley, in…