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Urgent Action: ARBITRARILY DETAINED CRITIC RISKS HARSH SENTENCE (Egypt: UA 89.23)
Share: On This Page 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…
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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,…
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Urgent Action: LAWYER AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER JAILED (Guatemala 84.23
TAKE ACTION: Write a letter in your own words or using the sample below as a guide to one or both government officials listed. You can also email, fax, call…
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Urgent Action: FLORIDA SETS ITS SIXTH EXECUTION OF THE YEAR (USA: UA 86.23)
The State of Florida is due to execute Michael Zack on 3 October 2023 for a murder committed in 1996. Twenty-seven years old at the time of the crime, he…
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Urgent Action: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER DETAINED FOR PROTESTING(Argentina: UA 74.23)
Alberto Nallar, a human rights lawyer who took an active role during the protests in Jujuy Province that began on June 15, was released on August 18th, after spending more…
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Urgent Action: ACTIVIST SENTENCED FOLLOWING REFOULEMENT(Algeria 82.23
On 4 July, a court of appeal in Algiers confirmed the sentencing of Amazigh activist Slimane Bouhafs to three years in prison and a 100,000DA (around USD 734) fine. Slimane…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE WOMEN DIRECTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT (Russia: 81.23)
Theatre director Evgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk are being arbitrarily detained since 5 May and face prosecution for authoring and staging “Finist Yasny Sokol,” an award-winning play about women…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE JOURNALIST JAILED FOR CRITICAL VIEWS (Burundi: UA 13.23)
On May 2, 2023, the Court of Appeal of Mukaza in Bujumbura, Burundi, upheld the conviction of Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye for “undermining the integrity of the national territory” and…
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Urgent Action: PRISONER OF CONSCIENCE ON HUNGER STRIKE (Bahrain 100.22)
Paragraph Formats Danish-Bahraini human rights defender Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja (aged 62) has been on a water-only hunger strike since 9 August to protest his continued arbitrary detention and his denial of…