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Urgent Action update: A decade in jail for defying forced veiling
Prisoners of conscience jailed solely because of their peaceful campaigning against discriminatory forced veiling laws.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Uyghur woman held incommunicado for 2 years
Buzainafu Abudourexiti continues to be held in incommunicado detention after she was suddenly detained in March 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Researcher forcibly disappeared
Ibrahim Ezz El-Din, a housing rights researcher with an NGO, was arrested by security forces and forcibly disappeared.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Aug 2019 -
Côte D’Ivoire: Crackdown on dissenting voices must stop ahead of next year’s elections14 peaceful activists arrested since the beginning of the year
Press release 07 Aug 2019 -
Turkey: 136 social media and news sites blocked in 'suffocating crackdown' on freedom of expressionPress release 06 Aug 2019 -
Afghanistan: Taliban threaten attacks on presidential ralliesAfghanistan in second week of campaigning ahead of elections next month.
Press release 06 Aug 2019 -
Amnesty International to divest from fossil fuel companiesHuman rights organisation also aims to become carbon neutral by 2035 and slash air travel by a third
Press release 05 Aug 2019 -
India: Revoking special status of Jammu and Kashmir likely to inflame tensionsPress release 05 Aug 2019
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USA: Trump's attempt to link gun reform with immigration condemned‘There are too many guns, and insufficient laws today to keep track of them all’
Press release 05 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Man with claims of innocence at risk of execution
Larry Swearingen has been on death row in Texas, USA since 2000 and is scheduled to be executed on 21 August 2019.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Aug 2019 -
Mauritania: blogger Mohamed Mkhaïtir released after five years in detention for publishing a blogMkhaïtir was sentenced to death and held in arbitrary detention for more than five years
Press release 05 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado for months
Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held incommunicado since 8 January 2019.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Aug 2019 -
Nigeria: deaths of three IMN protesters in police custody must be investigated15 other detainees need treatment for life-threatening gunshot wounds
Press release 05 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Land defenders in Río Blanco still at risk
On 16 July, COPINH reported new attacks that affected at least 25 families of the community of Río Blanco, Honduras.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Aug 2019 -
Russia: latest mass protest arrests condemned‘The Russian authorities have shown nothing but disdain for human rights and the notion of peaceful protest’
Press release 03 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Filmmaker charged, health concerns remain
Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent filmmaker, has been formally charged after being detained for more than three months.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2019 -
Saudi Arabia: wider women's rights reforms should follow guardianship announcementAuthorities urged to end their crackdown on women’s rights activists
Press release 02 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer of Xinca people still under threat
Quelvin Jimenez reported that a group of people, carrying weapons, disrupted a meeting of the Xinca Indigenous people.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Newspaper editor detained without charge
On 15 July 2019, Michael Rial Christopher, South Sudanese newspaper editor was taken off a flight to Kenya and arrested.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2019 -
Uganda: Academic found guilty of cyber harassment of president after Facebook post‘The mere fact that forms of expression are considered insulting to a public figure is not sufficient ground to penalise anyone’ - Joan Nyanyuki
Press release 02 Aug 2019
