THAILAND: Ask Authorities to Release Refugee Footballer - ONLINE ACTION

Amnesty International Australia, January 27, 2019.

Former Bahraini national footballer, Hakeem al-Araibi, found refuge and safety in Australia after fleeing torture and persecution in his home country. 

Now, he is languishing in immigration detention in Thailand and could be deported back to certain danger in Bahrain.

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IRAN: Labor Rights Activists at Risk of Further Torture - URGENT ACTION

Iranian labor rights activists Sepideh Gholian (pictured left) and Esmail Bakhshi (right), who were rearrested on 20 January after speaking out about beatings and other abuse they suffered in detention in late 2018, are at grave risk of further torture. The authorities must release them immediately and unconditionally as they are prisoners of conscience jailed solely on the basis of their peaceful activism in defense of workers’ rights.

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WISCONSIN MUSLIM JOURNAL - NEWS

PHOTO EXHIBIT “PALESTINE: UNLIMITED” SHARES THE HOPES AND COURAGE FROM A TRAUMATIZED CULTUREREMEMBERING KARIMEH ABBOUD: A 20TH CENTURY WOMAN WHO PIONEERED PALESTINIAN PHOTOGRAPHY

https://wisconsinmuslimjournal.org/photo-exhibit-palestine-unlimited-shares-the-hopes-and-courage-from-a-traumatized-culture/?mc_cid=80a54b2b44&mc_eid=e07042d52b

https://wisconsinmuslimjournal.org/remembering-karimeh-abboud-a-20th-century-woman-who-pioneered-palestinian-photography/?mc_cid=80a54b2b44&mc_eid=e07042d52b

MEXICO: Activists Killed - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, USA, January 23, 2019

On 17 January, unidentified armed men attacked demonstrators in Amatán, Chiapas state, southern Mexico. Noé Jiménez Pablo and José Santiago Gómez Álvarez, two economic, social and cultural rights activists and members of the Independent Regional Campesino Movement (MOCRI – Movimiento Campesino Regional Independiente), were taken and deprived of their liberty by the armed men. The following day, their wounded death bodies appeared in a local dumpster. In reaction to this attack, the government took measures like sending few law enforcement officials, but members of the community fear further attacks and that these measures are insufficient to protect them.

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MAURITANIA: Anti-Slavery Activists Released - GOOD NEWS

Amnesty International, USA, January 23, 2019.

Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud were released from Nouakchott civil Prison on 31 December 2018. The Tribunal of Arafat in Nouakchott sentenced them to six months, two months of which would be a suspended sentence. Having already spent more than four months in prison, Biram and Abdellahi were released the same day.

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2019 AIUSA Lobby Days

AIUSA Lobby Days 2019

Please join us to lobby our elected leaders in Wisconsin! Contact Wisconsin Legislative Coordinator Jacob Pankratz (jacobpankratz@gmail.com) or Group #139 coordinator Azam Niroomand-Rad (azamnrad@gmail.com) if you would like to get a group together to lobby!

President's Day Recess
February 18-22, 2019

AIUSA Lobby Day (in Washington, D.C.)
May 5-6, 2019

August Recess
August 5-9, 2019

October Recess
September 30-October 11, 2019

ISRAEL: Bedouin Human Rights Leader Imprisoned - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, USA, January 21, 2019.

On 25 December 2018, 69-year-old human rights defender Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi, started serving a 10-month prison sentence for exercising his rights to freedom of expression and of peaceful assembly. Sheikh Sayyah is the head of al-‘Araqib, a Bedouin village in the Negev/Naqab that is unrecognized by the Israeli authorities. He is currently held at Maasiyahu Prison, in the city of Ramle in central Israel. He is a prisoner of conscience and must be released immediately and unconditionally.

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