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Minister in Sri Lanka Accused of Holding Tamil Prisoners at Gunpoint Must Face Investigation
Responding to reports that Sri Lanka’s State Minister for Prison Management and Prisoners Rehabilitation, Lohan Ratwatte, forcibly entered a state prison in Anuradhapura on 12 September and held Tamil prison…
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A Decade of Deaths in Custody Unpunished Amid Systemic Impunity for Torture in Iran
Iranian authorities have failed to provide accountability for at least 72 deaths in custody since January 2010, despite credible reports that they resulted from torture or other ill-treatment or the…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: ILL-TREATED FOR SEEKING TRUTH AND JUSTICE (Iran: UA 94.21)
Prisoner of conscience Maryam Akbari Monfared has been held in cruel and inhumane conditions in a distant prison in Semnan province far from her family since March 2021, in reprisal…
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Waiving Restrictions on U.S. Military Assistance to Egypt Risks U.S. Complicity in Human Rights Abuses
Responding to reported deliberations by the Biden administration on invoking a national security waiver to release $300 million of restricted military assistance to Egypt, Philippe Nassif, the advocacy director for…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISTS FACE ADDITIONAL CHARGES (Cambodia: UA 73.21)
Six youth activists from Mother Nature Cambodia, a well-known environmental group that campaigns against environmental destruction and related human rights abuses, continue to face ongoing persecution. Three of the activists,…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: STUDENT UNJUSTLY JAILED OVER ‘FALSE NEWS’ (Egypt: UA 15.21)
Egyptian researcher and master's student Ahmed Samir Santawy went on hunger strike on June 23, 2021 after an emergency court sentenced him to four years’ imprisonment for publishing “false news”.…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: PEACEFUL ACTIVISTS JAILED FOR CALL TO STRIKE (Democratic Republic of Congo: UA 74.21)
Human rights defenders, Elisée Lwatumba Kasonia and Eric Muhindo Muvumbu were arrested on April 19, 2021 by the National Intelligence Agency (ANR) in the town of Butembo, in the Democratic…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: CRACKDOWN ON YOUTH ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENDERS (Cambodia: UA 73.21)
Six youth environmental activists have been wrongfully imprisoned in retaliation for their peaceful environmental activism. The activists are members of Mother Nature Cambodia, a well-known environmental group that campaigns against…
Update
Amnesty International Statement for the Record on Impacts of COVID-19 in MENA Region, Need for U.S. Action – House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee
On June 22, 2021, Amnesty International USA’s Middle East and North Africa advocacy director Philippe Nassif and Mustafa Kassem Fellow Amit Dadon submitted the following statement for the record to…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action Update: ACTIVIST SPENDS A YEAR IN PRISON UNJUSTLY (Egypt: UA 139.20)
Egyptian human rights activist Sanaa Seif is serving an unjust 18 months’ sentence in Al-Qanater Prison for women following her conviction on bogus charges of spreading “false news”, “misusing social…
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Republic of Congo: UA 63.21)
Congolese human rights activists, Alexandre Ibacka Dzabana and Christ Dongui, are being arbitrary detained in connection to their human rights work and criticism of the government. In March, they were…
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Urgent Action Update: SAHRAWI ACTIVIST DETAINED INCOMMUNICADO (Morocco: UA 37.21)
The family and lawyer of imprisoned Sahrawi activist Mohamed Lamine Haddi have not heard from him since April 9, 2021 when he called them each to tell them that the…