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Urgent Action: Execution date set for man on death row for 34 years in USA

John Conner, a 60-year-old man who has been on death row in Georgia for 34 years, is scheduled to be executed on 14 July.

UA162/16 issued 08/07/2016

Urgent Action update: Two prominent bloggers detained for tweets in China

Two bloggers who compiled and released data on protests in China were criminally detained on 15 June 2016 on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

1st update on UA147/16 issued on 08/07/2016

Urgent Action update: Youth activists conditionally released in Angola

16 of the 17 Angolan youth activists were conditionally released following the Supreme Court’s decision on the habeas corpus. Nito Alves was later conditionally released following a Constitutional Court decision.

7th update on UA 143/15 issued on 07/07/2016

Urgent Action: Risk of impunity in cases of forced sterilizations in Peru

The right to justice of thousands of women - mainly peasant, Indigenous and Quechua-speaking women – who were sterilized against their will is at risk, after authorities failed to file charges against those responsible before the legal deadline passed.

UA 158/16 issued 06/07/16

Urgent Action Update: Istanbul Pride ban enforced

On the day of the banned Istanbul Pride march on 26 June, police used tear gas and plastic bullets against small groups of LGBTI activists.

1st update on UA 143/16 issued on 06/07/2016

Urgent Action Update: Iranian human rights defender on hunger strike

Narges Mohammadi, a prisoner of conscience, has been on hunger strike since 27 June in protest at the authorities’ persistent refusal to allow her to speak with her young children.

6th update on UA 105/15 issued on 06/07/2016

Urgent Action: Man arbitarily detained for facebook posts in Algeria

A British-Algerian man is arbitrarily detained pending the outcome of his trial for “offending” Algeria’s president and other officials on Facebook.

UA 155/16 issued 05/07/2016

Urgent Action update: Sentence completed in March 2015, still in Iraq jail

Walid Yunis Ahmad was due to be released on 6 March 2015. He still remains in prison in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq more than a year after having completed his five-year prison sentence.

1st update on UA 148/15 issued 05/07/2016

Urgent Action: Victim of unfair trial, health at risk in Russian Federation

Stanislav Klykh is currently in pre-trial detention after being sentenced on 26 May to 20 years in prison after an unfair trial.

UA 157/16 issued 06/07/2016

Urgent Action update: Egyptian national sentenced to 3 years in UAE prison

On 27 June the Federal Supreme Court in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) sentenced Mosaab Ahmed ‘Abdel-‘Aziz Ramadan to three years in prison followed by deportation.

2nd update on UA 21/15 issued 05/07/2016