Amira is a civil engineer and women’s rights activist. She is charged with being in public with her head uncovered, and will soon go on trial in Sudan. If convicted, she could face 40 lashes.
Text SUDAN1 and your full name to 70505 now to call on Sudan to drop the charges against Amira.
As Sri Lanka gears up to host the leaders of the Commonwealth from 15-17 November, it’s time for the Sri Lanka Government to come clean about torture and countless other abuses.
Follow this link to call on the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to send a clear message that Sri Lanka’s human rights abuses will not be given a Commonwealth seal of approval.
Our earlier post about Dr Tun Aung did not include the full postal address to send your messages to. Here it is:
Please send a supportive message to Dr Aung’s family. ”Dr Tun Aung’s Family, c/o Myanmar Team, International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton Street, London, WC1X 0DW”
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Dr. Tun Aung
In 2012, Dr Tun Aung was asked by the Burmese police to help defuse tensions during a riot between Rakhine Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims in Maungdaw. However he was later arrested for inciting communal violence, held incommunicado and denied the right to appoint his own lawyer or meet them in private
Please send a supportive message to Dr Aung’s family. “Dr Tun Aung’s Family, c/o Myanmar Team, International Secretariat, Amnesty International, 1 Easton Street, London, WC1X 0DW”. Please write in English, Burmese or your own language. Please do not send religious cards and please do make sure the card arrives at the address above by September 15th 2013.
Click here to read more about this case and how you can help.
Six human rights defenders in China are being detained by authorities after freeing activists who were being illegally detained in a guest house.
Three are now missing, their whereabouts unknown. One (Ding Hongfen, pictured) has already been subjected to torture.
Okunishi Masaru on death row in Japan © Private
Okunishi Masaru has spent more than half his life on death row in Japan, knowing he could be executed any day.
In 1961, he was accused of poisoning five women and ‘confessed’ after prolonged police interrogation. He retracted his confession as soon as trial began, and was acquitted for lack of evidence. But a higher court reversed the decision, and sentenced Okunishi to death.
Okunishi’s lawyers have repeatedly requested a retrial, without success. Okunishi is now 87 years-old and his health is failing him, he slips in and out of consciousness and is unable to breathe on his own. But he’s desperate for a chance to clear his name before he dies.
Click here to call on the Japanese authorities to grant Okunishi a retrial.
Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections are just days away.
When the last elections were held in 2008, a wave of politically motivated violence spread across the country after the first round of polling. More than 200 people were killed, 10,000 injured and 28,000 forced to flee their homes.
Amnesty International USA is calling on the Government of Sri Lanka to “Tell the Truth” on arbitrary detention and torture.
Four years have passed since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan authorities continue to deny mounting evidence of crimes under international law committed by its forces during Sri Lanka’s protracted armed conflict. They also attempt to stop their own citizens from communicating with the UN and other international bodies about serious violations they have witnessed.
Click here to call on the President of Sri Lanka to “Tell the Truth”.
Please note the petition closes on 1 September.
Dilshod Murodov’s mother Lubat Burhanova cuts a single rose from her garden to lay on her son’s grave © Amnesty International/BHR
In 2009, Lubat Burhanova was told that her son Dilshodbek had died in prison from heart failure. When his body was returned for burial she lifted the shroud to find that he had been severely beaten. Lubat believes her son died because he was tortured, and she has been campaigning for justice since.
In Tajikistan, the police and security forces frequently resort to torture and other ill-treatment to obtain confessions. Many victims of torture in pre-trial detention are left with physical and psychological injuries requiring long-term treatment, some die in custody. Those who do survive, often end up in prison after an unfair trial.
Amnesty International Taunton Local Group 