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Saudi Arabia: Repressive Draft Penal Code Shatters Illusions of Progress and Reform
Amnesty International's analysis of the leaked draft code reveals it is essentially a manifesto for repression that would entrench human rights violations and suppress freedoms.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: RELEASE ARBITRARILY DETAINED JUDGE (Yemen 16.24)
Abdulwahab Mohammad Qatran, a Yemeni judge critical of the Huthi de facto authorities, was arbitrarily arrested by members of the Huthi security and intelligence service who broke into his house…
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Urgent Action: TORTURED MAN FACING PROTEST-RELATED EXECUTION (Iran 107.23)
Share: On This Page Kurdish man Reza Rasaei, from the Yaresan religious minority, is at imminent risk of execution in relation to the “Woman Life Freedom” uprising after the Supreme…
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Urgent Action: JOURNALIST RELEASED AFTER THREE YEARS’ IMPRISONMENT (Outcome for Iraq 28.21)
NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS. On February 17, the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KR-I) authorities released journalist Guhdar Zebari after more than three…
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Urgent Action: STOP WITHHOLDING DETAINEES’ MEDICAL CARE (Venezuela 96.23)
On February 19, 2024, Juan Carlos Marrufo was unexpectedly transferred to Venezuelan prison Rodeo I, almost three years into his politically motivated arbitrary detention. While his health deteriorates, the authorities…
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Urgent Action: PROMINENT ACTIVIST DENIED CONSULAR VISIT (Egypt 132.19)
Prominent Egyptian-British activist, Alaa Abdel Fattah, has spent 52 months arbitrarily detained simply for exercising his human rights. On December 20, 2021, he was convicted on bogus charges and sentenced…
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Iran: Draconian Campaign to Enforce Compulsory Veiling Laws Through Surveillance and Mass Car Confiscations
Iranian authorities are waging a large-scale campaign to enforce repressive compulsory veiling laws through widespread surveillance of women and girls in public spaces and mass police checks targeting women drivers.
Urgent Action
Urgent Action: VENEZUELAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AND HER FAMILY ARRESTED (Venezuela 13.24)
Rocío San Miguel, a well-known human rights defender, was arbitrarily detained on February 9, 2024, at the airport in Caracas, Venezuela. She is forcibly disappeared, resembling a widely documented pattern.…
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Join the Global Vigils to Close Guantánamo NOW!
Join us Wednesday, March 6th for the Close Guantánamo Global Vigils led by the tireless Andy Worthington (AKA "Guantánamo Andy"), former detainees and human rights defenders around the globe, calling…
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Hong Kong: Transgender Activist Must Not Be Deported to Mainland China
Time is of the essence to prevent Lai Ke from being unlawfully deported to mainland China, where she would be at grave risk of serious human rights violations.
Case
Julian Assange
Julian Assange is currently being held at Belmarsh, a high security prison in the U.K., upon a U.S. extradition request on charges that stem directly from the publication of disclosed…
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Ukraine/Russia: Justice for Ukraine Means Accountability for All Crimes Committed by Russia Since 2014
While the war is still raging, evidence of every single atrocity must be preserved as much as possible. Those responsible for crimes under international law must face justice, no matter…
