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Write for Rights Open House
Date: Thursday, December 7 Time: 4:30-8:30pm ET Location: 91 East 3rd Street, New York, NY 10003, USA It's time to make a difference and stand up for human rights together!…
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Urgent Action: HEALTH RISK FOR DETAINED ANTI-TORTURE T-SHIRT PROTESTER (Egypt 90.23)
Share: On This Page Mahmoud Hussein, a protester who had already spent two years in arbitrary pretrial detention for wearing an anti-torture T-shirt, was re-arrested on August 30. After his…
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URGENT ACTION: BAHRAINI PRISONER STILL ON FASTING PROTEST (Bahrain 100.22)
Bahraini-Danish human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja reinstated his fasting protest on September 21, 2023, after prison authorities reneged on their promises including to transport him and…
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11 BAHA’IS DISAPPEARED FOR MORE THAN 100 DAYS (YEMEN 60.23)
On May 25, armed Huthi forces stormed a peaceful gathering of Baha’is in Sana’a, Yemen. They detained and forcibly disappeared 17 individuals including five women and human rights and humanitarian…
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URGENT ACTION: END PROTEST BAN ON GALATASARAY SQUARE (TURKEY 101.23)
Saturday Mothers/People, a group of relatives of victims of enforced disappearances and other human rights defenders are prevented from exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Istanbul’s Galatasaray…
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URGENT ACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER EXTRADITED AND DETAINED (CHINA 102.23)
Lu Siwei, a renowned Chinese human rights lawyer, is being held in the Xindu Detention Centre in Sichuan province, southwestern China, after he was forcibly returned to China from Laos.…
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Urgent Action: CHILEAN PROSECUTOR MUST ACT AGAINST IMPUNITYÂ (CHILE: 91.23)
Starting on October 18, 2019, the period of social unrest in Chile left hundreds of victims of police violence. Four years on, no police commanders have been held accountable for…
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URGENT ACTION: REPEAL AHA 2023 AND ENSURE ACCOUNTABILITY (UGANDA: 48.23)
On May 26, the Ugandan President assented to the Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2023. The Act criminalizes same-sex conduct between consenting adults and has retained the death penalty in cases of “aggravated…
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Urgent Action: 11 BAHA’IS DISAPPEARED FOR MORE THAN 100 DAYS (Yemen: UA 60.23)
On May 25, armed Huthi forces stormed a peaceful gathering of Baha’is in Sana’a, Yemen. They detained and forcibly disappeared 17 individuals including five women and human rights and humanitarian…
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Urgent Action: ARBITRARILY DETAINED CRITIC RISKS HARSH SENTENCE (Egypt: UA 89.23)
Hisham Kassem, a prominent Egyptian opposition politician and publisher, is facing a sentence of up to three years in prison on defamation and other politically-motivated charges brought against him solely…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER MUST BE RELEASED (Egypt: UA 87.23)
Yemeni asylum seeker, Abdul-Baqi Saeed Abdo, who has been arbitrary detained in Egypt for over 20 months, is at risk of deportation to Yemen, where his life would be at…
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Urgent Action: STUDENT DETAINED FOR A YEAR FOR HOSTING WEBINAR (Bangladesh: UA 83.23)
Khadijatul Kubra was a 17-year-old meritorious student at Jagannath University in Dhaka, Bangladesh, when she hosted a webinar from an online talk show called "Humanity for Bangladesh". A guest speaker,…