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Jan 26 2012 2:59PM
ACTION: Honduran Human Rights Defender at Risk (UA 22/12)

Hi Amnesty International supporters! Thank you for visiting our blog. We're still developing the Urgent Action Network blog and are keen to receive any feedback you may be able to give. Below you will find our first Urgent Action post...

Jan 25 2012 4:10PM
China Human Rights Briefing January 17-23, 2012

Highlights Trial Looms for Veteran Dissident Zhu Yufu: Detained since March of last year, the Hangzhou dissident Zhu Yufu is expected to be tried soon on charges of “inciting subversion.” Authorities have stated that Zhu’s case will be...

Jan 24 2012 5:12PM
Welcome to the new Amnesty UK blogs

Welcome to our new blogs space. Have a look round, we hope you like it! Our original blogs platform has done us proud for a lttle over 5 years - but 5 years is a long, long time in internet years and we were overdue a virtual lick of...

Jan 23 2012 6:23PM
Welcome to the Urgent Action blog

Hello and welcome to the Urgent Action Network blog! This blog is run by the Urgent Action team volunteers and staff in Individuals at Risk team and we hope it will be somewhere you will come back to again and again to take action...

Jan 23 2012 5:50PM
USA: Children, Life Without Parole, and the Case of Christi Cheramie

In the USA children can be sentenced to life without parole, despite an almost universal legal and moral consensus that this sentence should never be imposed on someone under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed. The UN...