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Urgent Action: FACING IMMINENT PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION (Iran 64.23)
Share: On This Page Mojahed (Abbas) Kourkouri is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 popular uprising. On December 24, his family learned that Branch 39…
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Urgent Action: MAN AT GRAVE RISK OF PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION IN IRAN (Iran 107.23)
Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the September-December 2022 nationwide protests. On December 16, 2023, his conviction and death sentence for…
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Urgent Action: RISK OF PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTIONS AMID KILLING SPREE (Iran 103.22)
At least five individuals in Iran are under sentence of death in connection with the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising of 2022, while at least 15 others are at risk of…
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Urgent Action: OPPOSITION FIGURE ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Tunisia 114.23)
On October 3, 2023, days after expressing her interest in running for the next presidential elections, security forces arrested opposition figure Abir Moussi. She had been trying to submit an…
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Celebrating the Human Rights Wins of 2023
Although human rights are being gravely undermined in numerous countries across the world, Amnesty International’s supporters and activists have shown that change is always possible.
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Urgent Action: TORTURED IRANIAN KURDISH MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH (Iran: 107.23)
Iranian Kurdish man Reza (Gholamreza) Rasaei is at risk of execution in relation to the September to December 2022 nationwide protests in Iran. Following a grossly unfair trial, on October…
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Urgent Action: TRUTH AND JUSTICE FOR DISAPPEARED ACTIVIST (Iraq: 104.23)
On September 19, 2020, a group of armed men abducted Sajjad al-Iraqi, a prominent protester and activist involved in the 2019 Tishreen [October] protest. More than three years after his…
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Urgent Action: TWO YOUNG MEN AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION (Saudi Arabia: 103.23)
Abdullah al-Derazi and Jalal Labbad are at risk of imminent execution after Saudi Arabia’s Supreme Court secretly upheld their death sentences in secret, without notifying their families or lawyers. Both…
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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: EXECUTION SET DESPITE UNRELIABLE TESTIMONY (USA: 93.23)
Brent Brewer is scheduled to be executed in Texas on November 9, 2023. His 1991 death sentence was overturned in 2007, but he was resentenced to death in 2009. In…
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Amnesty International Calls for Immediate and Unconditional Release of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi, unjustly imprisoned human rights defender, is currently serving multiple sentences amounting to a total of 11 years and 11 months in prison, in addition to other cruel, inhuman,…
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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…