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Urgent Action update: Dalit rights activist still detained without charge in India
Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, a prominent Dalit rights activist, is still being held in administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Health of Indian activist with disabilities deteriorates
Activist and teacher, G N Saibaba, who is paralysed, continues to be denied access to adequate medical treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Apr 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Indigenous peoples advocate released on bail in India
Upendra Nayak, a 65-year-old lawyer, was granted bail and released from custody on 23 March 2018.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Apr 2018 -
India: Journalist killed after reporting on corruptionSandeep Sharma, a journalist investigating illegal sand mining, has died after being hit by a truck in the Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh.
Press release 26 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Kashmiri photojournalist released on bail in India
Kamran Yousuf was granted bail and released from prison on 14 March 2018, following six months of pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous peoples advocate arrested in India for ‘sedition’
Upendra Nayak, a lawyer who defends the rights of indigenous Adivasi people, was arrested in eastern India.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action: Kashmiri photojournalist faces life in prison
Kamran Yousuf has been charged with several criminal offences including ‘waging war against the government of India’.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Two indigenous activists face life imprisonment in India
Two activists have been arrested for their role in the resistance to forced acquisition of land for a steel plant
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Grave health fears for Indian paralysed activist in prison
Disabled activist and teacher, G N Saibaba continues to be denied access to adequate medical treatment in prison.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Dalit right activist held without charge in India
Chandrasekhar Azad, a prominent Dalit rights activist from India is being held in administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Death threats for human rights lawyer in India
Dalit lawyer and human rights defender, Rajat Kalsan, faces fabricated charges and death threats due to his work.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
India: People arrested for cheering Pakistan in cricket must be immediately releasedPress release 21 Jun 2017
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Urgent Action: University students arrested in India after protest
Eight university students and three members of a political party’s student wing in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh have been in detention since 7 June.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activists held under administrative detention in India
G Thirumurugan Gandhi, D Arun Kumar, M Tyson, and Ilamaran were arrested on 21 May 2017 for attempting to stage a peaceful memorial for Tamils killed in the final stages of the civil war in Sri Lanka.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Detained journalist in India released on bailSantosh Yadav was released from prison on 9 March 2017, over a week after the Supreme Court of India granted him bail.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Mar 2017 -
India: Minister's claim to have ordered torture must be investigatedPress release 14 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Children released from unlawful detention in India
Rayees Ahmad Mir and Waheed Ahmed Gojree have been released after the Jammu and Kashmir High Court quashed their detention orders on 6 and 31 December 2016 respectively.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
UA good news: Detained Kashmiri human rights defender released in India
Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights defender, was released from administrative detention on 30 November, five days after a court ruled his detention under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act arbitrary and illegal.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist beaten for protest in India
Police in Chhattisgarh, a state in Central India, used batons to beat detained journalist Santosh Yadav and seven other prisoners for protesting against the quality of food served in the Jagdalpur central jail.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two Indian children held in unlawful detention
Two teenage boys in Jammu and Kashmir are being detained in prison under the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA), which expressly prohibits the detention of anyone under 18 years of age.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Oct 2016
