TIBET: Educator Imprisoned for Teaching Tibetan Language - ONLINE PETITION

Amnesty International, Australia, May 15, 2018.

Tashi Wangchuk is facing 15 years in prison for advocating for Tibetan languages to be taught in schools.

Tashi wants Tibetan children to learn their native tongue in Chinese schools, as well as the Mandarin they currently learn.

For his peaceful advocacy to keep the Tibetan culture alive, he’s facing 15 years in prison.

In January 2016, Tashi was taken into custody and then ‘formally’ arrested two months later on suspicion of “inciting separatism”. The authorities have accused him of attempting to discredit the Chinese Government’s international image.

Tashi should be set free immediately.

MEXICO: Mothers of the DIsappeared - NEWS

Amnesty International, Canada, May 10, 2018.

Today is Mother’s Day in Mexico, and as you are reading this email we will be marching in the streets of Mexico City and raising our voices together with mothers of the disappeared. We will carry with us more butterfly messages from Amnesty International supporters to make visible the depth of concern in Canada.

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USA: Do Not Let Kids Grow Up in Jail - ONLINE PETITION

Amnesty International, USA, May 9, 2018.

Many children and families come to the United States of America seeking safety as they flee from violence and persecution in their home countries. But the government is throwing these families behind bars and locking them up for weeks, months, and even years.

Berks County Residential Center in Pennsylvania is a family detention center unfairly jailing children and their parents who are seeking refuge and safety here. Berks is one of three family detention centers in the United States. It’s the oldest of these “baby jails,” and a place where toddlers and their moms have been kept behind bars.

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ISRAEL: Forced Deportations Halted - GOOD NEWS

Amnesty International, USA, May 8, 2018.

The Israeli government has declared that it will not pursue forcible deportations of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers to third countries under the Israeli ‘Procedure for Deportation to Third Countries’. This follows the release of 280 asylum-seekers who had been detained as a result of the policy, after an order by the High Court of Justice. 

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COLOMBIA: Environmental Defender Killed - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, USA, May 7, 2018.

A member of the Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers) Movement was killed on 2 May, the same day that the group carried out an all-day march against the Hidroituango hydroelectric project in Antioquia, Colombia. 

Others are at risk.

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MYANMAR: JOURNALISTS JAILED - ONLINE PETITION

Amnesty International, USA, May 4, 2018

Two Reuters journalists are facing up to fourteen years in prison for reporting on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine state. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested in December, and held without access to lawyers, family members or the outside world for two weeks.

There has been an erosion of the space for a free press in Myanmar, where journalists and other media workers face ongoing restrictions in connection with their work. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo’s arrest appears to be aimed at preventing them, as well as other journalists, from independently reporting on the Rohingya crisis.

Journalism is a peaceful act of bringing information to light, and for the Rohingya crisis it is essential. The ongoing military campaign against Rohingya Muslims has been called “a textbook example of ethnic cleansing” by the United Nations.

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IRAN : IRANIAN KURD AT IMMINENT RISK OF EXECUTION - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, USA, May 1, 2018.

Ramin Hossein Panahi, a 22-year-old man from Iran’s Kurdish minority, was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial that lasted less than an hour on 16 January 2018. His family told Amnesty International that he appeared before the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, with torture marks on his body, but that the court failed to order an investigation. According to his lawyer, the court convicted and sentenced him to death for “taking up arms against the state” (baqi) merely based on his membership of the armed Kurdish opposition group Komala. No specific evidence was provided linking him to activities involving intentional killing, which is the required threshold under international law for using the death penalty. Between his arrest and trial, he was only allowed one brief meeting with his lawyer, which took place in the presence of intelligence officials. The authorities also refused to disclose to him and his lawyer the details of the evidence brought against him and to provide them with a written copy of the judgement. The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence in March 2018.

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