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Urgent Action update: Some critics free in Sudan, others remain in custody
About 79 opposition party members and human rights defender have been released. At least 61 others remain.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2018 -
Urgent Action: Young human rights defenders in Iran at risk of torture
Young human rights defenders Shima Babaee and her husband Dariush Zand are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds arrested in Sudan, wherabouts unknown
At least 140 opposition party members, human rights defenders, students and women rights activists were detained.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Feb 2018 -
The legacy of the SuffragettesSally Nicholl’s, whose novel for young adults is about young suffrage campaigners, asks whether things have changed for those still fighting for equality.
Blog post 14 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender's trial starts in Burundi
Burundian human rights defender, Germain Rukuki, is being prosecuted for ‘threatening state security’ and ‘rebellion’
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Detained human rights defender awaiting trial in Burundi
Nestor Nibitanga remains in detention awaiting trial for charges of ‘threatening state security’ and ‘rebellion’.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2018 -
Palestinian prisoner of conscience on trial
Palestinian human rights defender Munther Amira is facing trial for peacefully participating in protests
Urgent action outcomes 09 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders on hunger strike in Iran
Iranian women human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience started a hunger strike on 3 February in protest
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2018 -
Cambodia: Supreme Court upholds 'deeply flawed' conviction against land activist“Tep Vanny is a brave social activist who has done nothing but peacefully stand up for her community” – James Gomez
Press release 07 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Fears for activist held incommunicado in China
First detained on 2 September 2017, human rights defender Zhen Jianghua has not yet been allowed access to his lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience denied vital medication in Egypt
Hanan Badr el-Din, currently in prison on spurious charges, is being denied necessary health care.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2018 -
Russia: Authorities must release human rights activist held on 'preposterous' accusationsPress release 25 Jan 2018
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Attacks on NGOs will never be toleratedThe cowardly and despicable attack on a Save the Children office in Afghanistan will not stop the incredible and vital work they do for young people.
Blog post 25 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defenders in Honduras under attack
Violence against human rights defenders monitoring and denouncing the violent repression of protests has increased
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender’s appealed sentence upheld in Bahrain
Two-year prison sentence upheld against human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Attack against indigenous defender in Ecuador
Patricia Gualinga, Indigenous human rights defender, reported that on 5 January an unknown man attacked her home.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender detained in Chechnya
On 9 January, police arbitrarily arrested Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev. He remains in detention.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: More activists detained for Liu Xiaobo memorial
Activists have been detained due to their participation in the July 2017 memorial for late Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Human rights defender aquitted of all charges
Pastor Evan Mawarire was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Killings of land claimant leaders
Two land claimant leaders of collective Afro-descendent territories in Chocó have been killed by paramilitary groups.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017
