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Urgent Action: They plan to hang him tomorrow

18 Mar

Shafqat-Hussain-pictured--007Shafqat Hussain was still a child – fourteen years old – when Pakistan authorities sentenced him to death. His execution is due to take place tomorrow.

According to his lawyers, he was convicted based on a “confession” following nine days of torture by police.

Hussain has been in prison for ten years now. But late last week, authorities suddenly issued his death warrants.

They’re planning to hang him tomorrow.

Please, call on Pakistan to halt this execution immediately.
Take action by clicking here to help save this young man’s life. It will only take you a couple of minutes to sign the petition.

Thank you.

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Urgent: China – Do not send refugees back to North Korea

15 Aug

Four families, including a one-year-old baby, fled to China to escape the tyranny of North Korea.  Now China might send them home where they could face torture, labour camps and possibly death.

They have already been taken to a detention centre on the border with North Korea.

North Korea is in a category of its own when it comes to human rights violations. It is a totalitarian state where tens of thousands of people are enslaved and tortured.  All forms of freedom of expression are repressed and anyone attempting to assert their rights is crushed.  No one is safe from arrest and imprisonment

Call on Chinese authorities to let them seek asylum in China or another country, or travel onwards to South Korea.

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