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Urgent Action good news: Human rights defender reunited with family in Pakistan
Human rights defender Wahid Baloch has been released more than four months after suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces in Karachi.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three freed, four more arbitrarily detained in South Sudan
Two of the 30 men who had been in arbitrary detention in the prison at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters were released.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Missing lawyer is said to be in police custody in China
Beijing human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, last heard from on 21 November, is said to be in held in police custody for allegedly “leaking state secrets”.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Israel: Elor Azaria conviction is 'glimmer of hope' over unlawful military killingsPress release 04 Jan 2017
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Urgent Action update: Activist arrested for 'leaking state secrets' in China
Huang Qi, founder of Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), who has not been heard from since he was taken away on 28 November, has been formally arrested for “leaking state secrets”. He still does not have access to a lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two political activists charged with rebellion in Indonesia
Two Papuan political activists have been detained as a result of their peaceful political activities and charged with “rebellion” under the Indonesian Criminal Code.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained 70-year old professor's health at risk in Pakistan
70-year-old retired professor Dr Zafar Arif was arrested on 22 October and remains without access to a lawyer or medical care. He is a heart patient and there are grave concerns for his health.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
33 Reasons to be positive about 2016Blog post 22 Dec 2016
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Mosul, Iraq: injured and traumatised children caught up in a gathering 'humanitarian crisis'Press release 22 Dec 2016
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Iran: British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe pressured to 'jail or give up' daughterPress release 22 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action update: Defender's administrative detention extended in Israel/OPT
On 7 December the Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian human rights defender Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi for an additional six months.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalists need urgent medical care in Yemen
Journalist Abdelkhaleq Amran is in urgent need of medical attention after being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to his family. Nine other journalists arbitrarily detained with him also require medical attention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Youth arrested at 15 re-sentenced to death in Iran
Salar Shadizadi was sentenced to death again in November after a retrial in Iran. He has been on death row since 2007 for a crime committed when he was 15.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Aleppo: UN Security Council resolution long overduePress release 19 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action: Torture fears for missing website founder in China
Huang Qi, founder of Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), was taken from his home in Chengdu, Sichuan Province by 15 public security officers on 28 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Police return defender's seized vehicles in Nicaragua
On 10 December Nicaraguan police returned two vehicles that they had taken possession of from human rights defender Francisca Ramírez 10 days before.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Urge the president to decriminalize abortion in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Congress adopted a comprehensive reform of the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Demand relase of Cuban graffiti artist in Cuba
Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’) has been transferred to another new detention centre where he continues to be detained without charge since his arrest on 26 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Cluster munitions in Yemen: UK should halt all arms sales to Saudi ArabiaPress release 19 Dec 2016