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Urgent Action: Defender threatened for work with campesinos in Argentina
Human rights defender and social leader Rubén Ortiz is suffering from constant threats and intimidation related to his support for the rights of peasant farmer (campesino) communities and mission workers in Argentina.
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Urgent Action: Detained without charge for over three months in South Sudan
South Sudanese Military Police arrested Elias Waya Nyipuoch, former governor of Wau state, on the morning of 26 June.
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Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado since 2 September in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights activist Salim al-Maliki has been arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado for four weeks.
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Urgent Action: Person with mental disability faces execution in Pakistan
Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. He was convicted of the murder of a religious teacher in 2002.
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Urgent Action update: Six men face death sentence after unfair trial in Egypt
Egypt’s defence minister has ratified the death sentences of six civilian men tried by a military court in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment.
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Urgent Action good news: Homa Hoodfar freed in Iran after global campaign
Canadian-Irish-Iranian citizen Dr Homa Hoodfar, a prominent professor of anthropology, was released on 26 September and flown out of Iran to Oman.
Write for Rights 2016 - Letter to the Editor and Press Release
Get the media interested in your Write for Rights event by sending a press release to local press and broadcasters.
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Urgent Action update: Azamn journalists sentenced to prison in Oman
An Omani court of first instance issued its verdict on 26 September against three journalists from the daily Azamn newspaper. Two of the journalists received three-year prison sentences and the third a one-year prison sentence.
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Urgent Action: Defender combatting statelessness attacked in Dominican Republic
Around 8.30pm on 25 September, Dominican human rights defender Genaro Rincon was verbally and physically assaulted in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.