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Urgent Action: REFUGEES IN PERU FACE IMPOSSIBLE DEADLINE (Peru 106.23)
Share: On This Page As of November 10, 2023, Venezuelan nationals in Peru will no longer be able to apply for temporary protection. This status is essential for refugees to…
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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: RIGHTS LAWYER IMPRISONED FOR PEACEFUL PROTESTÂ (Thailand: 105.23)
Human rights defender and pro-democracy activist Anon Nampa has received two prison sentences for peacefully exercising his rights and faces multiple charges that could lead to decades’ imprisonment. He is…
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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: HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER CONVICTED FOR PROTESTING (Argentina 74.23)
Alberto Nallar is a human rights lawyer who took an active role during the protests in Jujuy Province that began on June 15. He is being criminalized and was deprived…
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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: HEALTH RISK FOR DETAINED ANTI-TORTURE T-SHIRT PROTESTER (Egypt 90.23)
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 release on bail in…
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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…