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Urgent Action: DETAINEES REMAIN AT RISK OF FURTHER TORTURE (Lesotho 24.24)
Share: On This Page On December 22, 2023, detainees at Maseru Correctional Institution (MCCI), Lesotho, were subjected to torture and other ill-treatment by the Correctional Services officers who beat the…
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Urgent Action: ARTIST JAILED FOR CRITICIZING PRESIDENT (Tunisia 27.24)
On January 31, 2024, the Monastir court of appeals in Tunisia sentenced artist, Rached Tamboura, to two years in prison on bogus charges for the peaceful exercise of his right…
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Urgent Action: PALESTINIAN HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER IS RELEASED (Outcome IOPT 2.24)
NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS. On February 29, Palestinian human rights defender and social worker, Munther Amira, was released from administrative detention at…
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Urgent Action: FORMER MP’S CONVICTIONS MUST BE QUASHED (Zimbabwe 90.22)
On January 30, 2024, former opposition leader, Job Sikhala, was released after 595 days of arbitrary detention. Job Sikhala was arrested on June 14, 2022, and convicted on May 3,…
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Urgent Action: JAILED HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER AT RISK OF TORTURE (Equatorial Guinea 21.24)
On March 1, Anacleto Micha Ndong, an Equatoguinean human rights defender, was transferred to the Malabo prison of Black Beach on pre-trial detention. He has been accused of outrage and…
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Urgent Action: RELEASE CONVICTED ANTI-WAR LOCAL POLITICIAN (Russia 23.24)
The Russian authorities are putting the health and life of Aleksei Gorinov at risk due to his treatment and conditions in detention, including being held in prolonged solitary confinement, not…
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Urgent Action: JOURNALIST ARRESTED UNDER STATE OF EMERGENCY (Ethiopia 20.24)
On November 13, 2023, Belay Manaye, co- founder and presenter of Ethio News, a YouTube based news channel, was arrested in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, by a group of police…
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Urgent Action: PROTESTER RISKS DECADES IN PRISON FOR T-SHIRT (Egypt 90.23)
Arbitrarily detained protester Mahmoud Hussein faces up to 25 years in prison simply for wearing a T-shirt with an anti-torture slogan back in January 2014. He was already arbitrarily detained…
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Urgent Action: DISAPPEARANCES STRATEGY PUTS SEARCH AT RISK (Mexico 1.24)
On December 14, 2023, president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador and representatives of the Ministry of the Interior shared the results of the Disappeared Persons Search Strategy. This strategy…
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Urgent Action: LAST CHARGE AGAINST LEILA DE LIMA CONTINUES (Philippines 48.22)
Court proceedings on the third and final bogus charge against human rights defender and former Philippine senator, Leila de Lima, are resuming in March, or four months after she was…