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Aug 9 2019 3:30pm
Urgent Action update: Activists released on bail, awaiting trial
The trial of seven activists, charged with treason for attending a tra...
Aug 9 2019 12:35pm
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking labour rights activist at risk
Labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been on hunger strike since...
Aug 9 2019 12:02pm
Urgent Action: Grassroots women activist held incommunicado
Chen Jianfang, a devoted grassroots human rights defender has been hel...
Aug 8 2019 2:52pm
Urgent Action update: A decade in jail for defying forced veiling
Two Iranian women’s rights defenders, Yasaman Aryani and Monireh Arabs...
Aug 5 2019 2:31pm
Urgent Action update: Land defenders in Río Blanco still at risk
On 16 July, the Civic Council of Popular Indigenous Organizations of H...
Aug 2 2019 12:56pm
Urgent Action update: Lawyer of Xinca people still under threat
Lawyer Quelvin Jimenez reported that on 23 June a group of people, car...
Jul 31 2019 8:43pm
Israel: death threats made against Amnesty and other civil society organisations
Messages sprayed outside Amnesty office, while further threats and a d...
Jul 25 2019 11:14am
Urgent Action: Jailed for protesting forced veiling laws
Iranian women’s rights defenders Monireh Arabshahi, Yasaman Aryani and...
Jul 12 2019 4:13pm
Urgent Action: Jailed for reporting on workers’ protests
Iranian journalists Amir Amirgholi, Sanaz Alahyari and Amirhossein Moh...
Jul 12 2019 1:47pm
Urgent Action: National guard harasses migrant shelter
Since the National Guard was deployed in Mexico with a new role addres...