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Urgent Action: FORMER MP’S CONVICTIONS MUST BE QUASHED (Zimbabwe 90.22)
Share: On This Page 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…
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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…
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Urgent Action: POLITICIANS UNJUSTLY HELD FOR OVER A YEAR (Tunisia 52.23)
Opposition politicians Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, Khayyam Turki, Issam Chebbi, Ghazi Chaouachi, Ridha Belhaj, and Abdelhamid Jelassi have been arbitrarily detained since February 2023 on unfounded “conspiracy against state security” accusations.…
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Urgent Action: THREE INDIVIDUALS CRIMINALISED FOR POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA (Argentina 19.24)
Nahuel Morandini, Roque Villegas, and Lucía González are prosecuted only for expressing opinions about a public figure on social media. Morandini and Villegas were imprisoned for 54 days and still…
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Urgent Action: STOP PUNISHING WOMEN PROTESTERS (Afghanistan 112.23)
Since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, women protesting Taliban’s draconian policies have been forcibly disappeared, arbitrarily arrested, and detained and subjected to torture and other ill treatment.…