AI-USA: Virtual Activism Conference (Oct. 20-22, 2023)

 

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I’m excited to invite you to Amnesty International USA’s Virtual Activism Conference in October! When: Friday, October 20th - Sunday, October 22nd Where: Hosted online via WHOVA Register for the Virtual Activism Conference HERE We’ll have a full lineup of plenaries and workshops covering a vast variety of topics including:

Human Rights Education for Activists Leonard Peltier Case Discussion Coalition building at the state level: Reproductive Rights Activism in Times of Uncertainty Empowering Tomorrow's Stewards: Youth Environmental Sustainability Advocacy and Refugee Awareness

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! VAC’23 Registration Deadline: 10/11/23

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Amnesty International is the world’s largest grassroots human rights organization. Join us to demand human rights for all people — no matter who they are or where they are. I hope to see you there!

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS: 61 Executions in July - NEWS

 

August 2, 2023: Mehdi Baboli-Bahmaei, a man sentenced to qisas(retribution-in-kind) for murder, was executed in Sepidar Prison in Ahvaz. At least 61 people including four women, 11 Baluch and five Afghan nationals were executed in July.

USA: Mentally Disabled Man Scheduled for Execution - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, July 2023

• Johnny Johnson, a 45-year-old man long diagnosed with severe mental disabilities, including schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on August 1, 2023 for the 2002 murder of a six-year-old girl. His lawyers have presented the findings of a neuropsychiatrist that he does not have a rational understanding of the reason for his punishment, instead believing Satan is using the State to execute him to bring about the end of the world. International law prohibits the execution of people with serious mental disabilities, including those with a diminished ability to understand the reasons for their sentence.

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IRAN: Grave Execution Risk for Youth with Disability - URGENT ACTION

Mohammad Ghobadlou is at grave risk of execution in connection with Iran’s nationwide protests amid a spike in executions since late April. Mohammad Ghobadlou received two death sentences after grossly unfair sham trials marred by torture-tainted “confessions” and failure to order rigorous mental health assessments despite his mental disability. In late May 2023, his lawyer revealed that the Supreme Court had rejected a request for judicial review of one his death sentences, raising fears that his execution could be carried out imminently.

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Nahid Taghavi: Iranian-German Life in Danger

 Nahid Taghavi's life in danger at Evin Prison.

The life of a German Iranian detained in Iran is in danger and she is in such pain she can barely move, a fellow prisoner who is a prominent rights activist said Sunday.

Nahid Taghavi, 68, was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in jail in August 2021 after being arrested at her Tehran apartment in October 2020, and is being held in solitary confinement at Tehran's Evin prison.

Narges Mohammadi wrote: "She can barely get out of her bed. She goes to the infirmary, receives strong painkiller injections and returns to her bed." "The pain is so severe it can be seen on her face," she added.

Mohammadi said that Taghavi had now spent 220 days in solitary confinement. This had worsened an existing spinal disc condition, and she was now also suffering from cervical disc problems, diabetes and high blood pressure.

IRAN: 6 Ahwazi Arabs at grave risk of execution - URGENT ACTION

Amnesty International, 5-17-2023

Ali Mojadam, Moein Khanfari, Mohammad Reza Moghadam, Salem Mousavi, Adnan Ghobeishavi and Habib Deris – from Iran’s persecuted Ahwazi Arab minority who are facing imminent execution. A Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz, Khuzestan province, used their torture-tainted “confessions” to sentence them to death in February after a grossly unfair trial. Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld their convictions and sentences, meaning they could be executed at any time.

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IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS: Execution Condemned - NEWS

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS

The Islamic Republic’s judiciary has reported the execution of Swedish-Iranian dual national and Arab dissident activist, Habib Asyoud (Chaab). He was kidnapped from Turkey by Islamic Republic forces in collaboration with international drug gangs in October 2020 and taken to Iran.

Condemning the execution of Habib Asyoud who was subjected to torture following his abduction and sentenced to death in grossly unfair trials, Iran Human Rights calls for a strong response by the international community to this extrajudicial killing.