General Election 2017
You and your group can use the time from now until the election to raise your voice for human rights.
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Urgent Action: Refugees in Greece at great risk due to unsafe camps
Over a thousand refugees and migrants face uninhabitable and unsafe conditions in three camps in Elliniko, Athens. Women and girls are at risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
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Urgent Action: Rakhine journalist receiving death threats in Myanmar
Journalist Nay Min Aung (known as Min Min) has been receiving death threats after publishing an article about an armed ethnic group operating in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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Youth Fundraising Update: April 2017
A fundraising update containing news of a successful Amnesty Week organised by a school group in Harrogate and a fundraising idea that came out of the Amnesty Youth Conference.
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Urgent Action: Activist in solitary confinement for 1234 days in Egypt
On 4 February, the Cairo Administrative Court postponed activist Ahmed Douma's appeal against his prolonged solitary confinement to 16 May. He has been held in poor detention conditions since his arrest on 3 December 2013.
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Urgent Action good news: Virginia governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 April, the Governor of Virginia commuted the death sentence of Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national who was scheduled to be executed on 25 April and who has continued to maintain his innocence.
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Urgent Action good news: Court blocks execution and remands for hearing in USA
The Arkansas Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for Stacey Johnson, who was due to be put to death in Arkansas on 20 April for a murder committed in 1993.
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Urgent Action update: Arkansas conducts first execution since 2005
Ledell Lee was executed in Arkansas on 20 April shortly before the death warrant in his case expired at midnight. He was sentenced to death for a murder committed in 1993.
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Urgent Action update: Iranian human rights defender on hunger strike
Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since 8 April. She is protesting the suspended prison sentences imposed on two of her sisters, Hanieh and Ensieh, for “insulting public officers on duty”.
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Urgent Action good news: Stay of execution for Bruce Ward in Arkansas
Bruce Ward, who was due to be put to death on 17 April in Arkansas, received a stay of execution. His lawyers maintain that his mental disability deprives him of a rational understanding of his punishment, rendering his execution unconstitutional.