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Urgent Action: GEORGIA SETS FIRST EXECUTION IN FOUR YEARS (USA 22.24)
Willie Pye is scheduled to be executed in Georgia on March 20, 2024. Now 58, he was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1992 when he was 27.…
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Urgent Action: PERSECUTION OF IMPRISONED UKRAINIAN CONTINUES (Russia 64.22)
Share: On This Page Ukrainian citizen, Oleksandr Marchenko, imprisoned in Russia on fabricated charges of espionage, continues to be harassed and ill-treated in custody. The penal authorities have intermittently placed…
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Bringing It Home: Amnesty International USA and Avaaz Hold Demonstration Outside White House Demanding Ceasefire in Gaza
Hundreds of white-shrouded body bags were thoughtfully laid in front of the White House on November 15th in a silent demonstration organized by Amnesty International USA and Avaaz, a global…
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INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY AGM ’24
Amnesty International is Building A BIGGER, BOLDER AND MORE INCLUSIVE MOVEMENT Inclusion: We support an inclusive culture where everyone belongs in the movement for human rights and feels they can…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER MUST BE RELEASED (Egypt: UA 87.23)
Yemeni asylum seeker, Abdul-Baqi Saeed Abdo, who has been arbitrary detained in Egypt for over 20 months, is at risk of deportation to Yemen, where his life would be at…
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Urgent Action: STUDENT DETAINED FOR A YEAR FOR HOSTING WEBINAR (Bangladesh: UA 83.23)
Khadijatul Kubra was a 17-year-old meritorious student at Jagannath University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, when she hosted a webinar from an online talk show called "Humanity for Bangladesh". A guest speaker,…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE TERMINALLY ILL PALESTINIAN PRISONER (IOPT: (UA 78.23)
Walid Daqqah is a terminally ill Palestinian prisoner who was diagnosed with a rare case of bone marrow cancer. His health condition has been exacerbated by numerous instances of medical…
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Urgent Action: EGYPTIAN-BRTISH ACTIVIST STILL UNJUSTLY JAILED (Egypt 132.19)
Egyptian-British prominent activist Alaa Abdel Fattah remains arbitrarily detained in Wadi al-Natrun prison and denied access to consular visits. On July 20th, human rights lawyer Mohamed Baker was released after…
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Urgent Action: JAILED SON OF POLITICIAN DENIED FAMILY VISITS (Egypt: UA 29.23)
Anas al-Beltagy, who has been denied any contact with his family for six years, continues to be barred from prison visits, following his transfer from the Badr 1 Prison to…
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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: SPANISH CITIZEN HELD INCOMMUNICADO (Russia: UA 69.23)
Mariano GarcÃa 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: 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…