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Human Rights on Capitol Hill – July 2021 Newsletter
HUMAN RIGHTS ON CAPITOL HILL Table of Contents Featured International Updates Domestic Updates Welcome News In Case You Missed It JULY 2021 NEWSLETTER Featured: end gun violence CONGRESS SHOULD SWIFLY…
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Urgent Action Update: STUDENT UNJUSTLY JAILED OVER ‘FALSE NEWS’ (Egypt: UA 15.21)
Egyptian researcher and master's student Ahmed Samir Santawy went on hunger strike on June 23, 2021 after an emergency court sentenced him to four years’ imprisonment for publishing “false news”.…
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Urgent Action: VENEZUELAN DEFENDERS UNDER ARREST (Venezuela: UA 75.21)
Javier Tarazona, Director of local NGO Fundaredes, Rafael Tarazona and Omar de Dios García, Fundaredes’ activists were arbitrarily detained on July 2, 2021 after attempting to report harassment from security…
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Government Relations
We fight for human rights on Capitol Hill, White House, and the federal government. Our team educates, advises, and lobbies U.S. policy makers on human rights issues in the United…
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Rocky Myers
Three Decades on Alabama’s Death Row. We are seeking Justice for Rocky and you can help!
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Urgent Action: PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS JAILED FOR CALL TO STRIKE (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 74.21)
Human rights defenders, Elisée Lwatumba Kasonia and Eric Muhindo Muvumbu were arrested on April 19, 2021 by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in the town of Butembo, in the Democratic…
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Urgent Action Update: ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO 3 YEAR IMPRISONMENT (Guinea: 154.20)
On June 10, 2021, Oumar Sylla (alias Foniké Mengué), a pro-democracy activist and mobilization coordinator for National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC in French), was sentenced by…
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110+ Orgs to Biden: End U.S. Program of Lethal Strikes Abroad
Today, 113 organizations from the United States and around the world sent a letter to President Biden calling for an end to the U.S. program of lethal strikes outside recognized…
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National Security Law has created a human rights emergency in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s National Security Law (NSL) has decimated the city’s freedoms and created a landscape increasingly devoid of human rights protections, Amnesty International said in a new research briefing released…
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Urgent Action Update: ENVIRONMENTALISTS AT RISK OF IMPRISONMENT (Indonesia: UA 23.21)
Syamsul Bahri and Samsir, father and son from a farmer community in North Sumatra province, are convicted of assault following weeks of trial over a spurious charge that is believed…
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Urgent Action: CRACKDOWN ON YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS (Cambodia: UA 73.21)
Six youth environmental activists have been wrongfully imprisoned in retaliation for their peaceful environmental activism. The activists are members of Mother Nature Cambodia, a well-known environmental group that campaigns against…
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Urgent Action: TIBETAN MONK JAILED FOR ONLINE MESSAGES (China: UA 72.21)
Tibetan monk Rinchen Tsultrim was sentenced to four years and six months in prison in March 2020 without a fair trial. His family members only learned of the sentencing a…