USA: Execution Scheduled -URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, 8-19-2022

James Coddington, aged 50, is scheduled to be executed in Oklahoma on August 25, 2022. He was sentenced to death for the murder of a 73-year-old friend in 1997. Following a clemency hearing on August 3, 2022, the state Pardon and Parole Board recommended that Governor Stitt grant James Coddington’s request to commute his death sentence. 

Twenty-four years old at the time of the crime, James Coddington is said to have long been remorseful for his actions and to have broken the cycle of drug dependence that was the context in which the murder occurred and with which he had struggled during and after a childhood of deprivation, abuse, and exposure to drugs from an early age.   

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IRAN: Tortured Students Jailed Unjustly - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, August 12, 2022

On 25 April 2022, a Revolutionary Court in Iran sentenced university students Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi to 16 years in prison on spurious national security charges after a grossly unfair trial. 

Their convictions were based on “confessions” which both men retracted in court and said were obtained under torture and other ill-treatment. 

They are prisoners of conscience targeted for exercising their right to peaceful assembly and their families’ real or perceived links to opposition group.

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SAUDI ARABIA: LEBANESE MAN DISSAPEARED IN SAUDI ARABIA - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, August 4, 2022

On August 4, 2021, Ali Maziad, a Lebanese national residing in Saudi Arabia, was abducted from his house in the capital, Riyadh by a group of men in civilian clothes. 

 

The Lebanese Embassy informed his family three months after his disappearance that he is being detained by State Security. Since then, he has been forcibly disappeared and his family has no information about his fate and whereabouts. 

Amnesty International urges the Saudi Arabian authorities to immediately disclose the fate and whereabouts of Ali Maziad, release him and ensure he has access to medical treatment and legal representation.  

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PHILIPPINES: NEW ADMINISTRATION MUST FREE LEILA - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, July 27, 2022

Prisoner of conscience and former senator Leila de Lima has been detained for over five years, as new government leaders, including Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assume their posts beginning July 1, 2022. 

While the previous justice secretary announced they will not drop the charges against her, new Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin Remulla has said he is open to reviewing her cases after three witnesses retracted their testimonies against her. 

We call on the new administration to carry out this review urgently and impartially, with a view to dropping the charges against Leila and ensuring her immediate release.  

 

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COLOMBIA: Environmental Defenders at Risk - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International US, 7-20-2022

On July 5, 2022, Yuli Velásquez, President of the Federation of Santander Fishers for Tourism and Environment (FEDEPESAN), an environmental organization operating in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, was the victim of an armed attack. 

 

Two unknown assailants shot at her, harming her bodyguard. Members of FEDEPESAN have previously suffered other armed attacks and threats. We urge Colombia’s National Protection Unit (UNP) to grant protective measures to Yuli that adequately respond to the level of risk Yuli and FEDEPESAN members are facing. 

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USA, ALABAMA: Rocky Myers faces Execution - ONLINE ACTION

Amnesty International, 7-16-2022

Rocky Myers is sitting in a cell in Alabama, facing execution for a crime he says he did not commit.

And today is his birthday.

Rocky’s case is one of the many reasons the death penalty should be abolished. He was convicted by a nearly all-white jury for the murder of a white neighbor. 

What’s worse is that the trial judge overrode the jury’s life sentence and imposed the death penalty — a practice banned in 2017, but not applied retroactively to Rocky’s sentence.

In honor of Rocky’s birthday, join us to urge Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to commute his death sentence.

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Thailand - Activists on Hunger Strike - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, US, June 30, 2022

Since June 2, 2022, two women have been on hunger strike calling for their right to bail. They have been detained since May 3, 2022. Authorities have started criminal proceedings against them and one other, who is on bail under house arrest, for conducting street polls. 

International human right commitments oblige the Thai government to effectively protect the human rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly and minimize pre-trial detention. The three must be released immediately, and all charges against them dropped.  

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