Urgent Actions
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 94/21 Prisoner of conscience Maryam Akbari Monfared has been held in cruel and inhumane conditions in a distant prison in Semnan province far from her family since March 2021, in reprisal for her open letters condemning the Iranian authorities’ human rights violations and...
September 9, 2021
Urgent Actions
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 95/21 HERE 32 Afghans are stuck at the Polish-Belarus border following pushbacks by Polish authorities to Belarus in August. They have been stranded for weeks without adequate shelter, food, water and medical care. Polish and Belarusian border guards have kept them in a strip...
September 9, 2021
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DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 76/21, UPDATE 1 BELOW Saiful Mahdi, a university lecturer at the Syiah Kuala University in Aceh Province, was sentenced for defamation to three months in prison and a fine of Rp 10 million (approximately USD $690) for writing in a WhatsApp group chat a message criticizing the...
September 9, 2021
Urgent Actions
DOWNLOAD A PDF OF UA 93/21 Below Talalelei Pauga is a vocal critic of the Samoan government’s policies, known for protesting the former Samoan Prime Minister’s 2018 visit to Australia by presenting him with a pig’s head. Pauga is an Australian citizen with dual Samoan nationality. He is...
September 10, 2021
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Canada will have its next federal election on September 20th, 2021. This election is crucial for many human rights issues, including climate justice, Indigenous rights, and immigration detention in Canada. We need your help to make human rights an election issue. While Covid-19 has changed many...
September 10, 2021