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Urgent Action: REVEAL FATE OF DISAPPEARED JOURNALIST (Iraq 118.23)
Share: On This Page On October 24, 2021, journalist Bassem al-Zaak was abducted while he was live-streaming a sit-in organized by a political bloc in Baghdad, in his capacity as…
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Urgent Action: ASYLUM SEEKERS DENIED SHELTER (Belgium 113.23)
In Belgium, at least 2,600 people seeking asylum are destitute due to the Belgian government’s failure to provide them with shelter and other essential goods and services. Many have no…
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Urgent Action: OPPOSITION FIGURE ARBITRARILY DETAINED (Tunisia 114.23)
On October 3, 2023, days after expressing her interest in running for the next presidential elections, security forces arrested opposition figure Abir Moussi. She had been trying to submit an…
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Urgent Action: CONCERNS ABOUT NAVALNY’S WHEREABOUTS (Russia 99.23)
Aleksei Navalny’s fate and whereabouts have been unknown since his lawyers last heard of him on December 5. On December 11, officials at the penal colony where he was serving…
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Urgent Action: Spanish National Forcibly Disappeared by Russia (Russia 69.23)
Russian authorities have forcibly disappeared Mariano GarcÃa Calatayud, a 75-year-old Spanish volunteer humanitarian worker whom their forces had abducted from occupied Kherson, in Ukraine, in 2022. They held him incommunicado,…
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Urgent Action: JURY VOTED FOR LIFE, STATE RESETS EXECUTION (USA 116.23)
Kenneth Smith is scheduled to be executed in Alabama on January 25, 2024. His jury voted for life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, but the judge imposed a death…
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Urgent Action: JAILED ACADEMIC’S HEALTH DETERIORATES (Azerbaijan 77.23)
Gubad Ibadoghlu is a renowned political economist and civil activist. On July 23, 2023, the Azerbaijani authorities detained him on fabricated charges of the production, acquisition, or sale of counterfeit…
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Urgent Action: CLIMATE DISPLACED PEOPLE NEED A HOME URGENTLY (Mexico 108.23)
On November 13, 69 people from "El Bosque" community (Tabasco) were forced to leave a temporary shelter in Frontera Village due to inhumane conditions and treatments. They were placed there…
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Urgent Action: UN EXPERTS ALARMED OVER IMPUNITY IN CHILE (Chile 91.23)
On November 27, 2023, UN special rapporteurs on peaceful assembly and association and on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions publicly called on Chilean authorities to “advance the prosecution and sanction…
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Urgent Action: UNJUSTLY HELD STUDENT DENIED PROSTHETIC LEGÂ (Egypt 110.23)
Oqba Hashad has been arbitrarily detained without trial for over four years and six months solely for his brother’s human rights activism. Security forces subjected him to enforced disappearance for…