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Urgent Action Update: Palestinian Human Rights Defender released
Hasan Safadi, Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, was released
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Bolivian NGO and staff under financial threat
The Bolivian Documentation and Information Centre (CEDIB) reported new threats to their human rights work and its staff.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Health fears for poet under illegal house arrest in China
Liu Xia wrote a letter expressing her deep depression and loneliness under house arrest.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Defenders denouncing violent repression at risk in Honduras
Honduran human rights organizations have reported security incidents, including threats and persecution of members.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human Rights Defender's sentence upheld
Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld the 2 year prison sentence against human rights defender Nabeel Rajab.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Women's Rights Defender threatened with death
Sanièce Petit Phat, a Haitian women and girls’ rights defender, has reported receiving death threats because of her work.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Defending the DefendersBlog post 13 Dec 2017
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Boris Johnson must act now to help protect human rights defenders around the worldBoris Johnson must put a strategic plan in place to help protect people who are putting their lives at risk to fight human rights abuses around the world. Read more.
Press release 05 Dec 2017 -
The six most dangerous kinds of activismActivists across the globe are being murdered and disappeared simply for standing up for human rights. Here are the six kinds of activists most at risk.
Explainer 05 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Investigation into human rights defender closed in Malaysia
The Malaysian police have officially closed all investigations into Maria Chin Abdullah.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Defender accused of undermining state security in Burundi
Defender Nestor Nibitanga was arrested in Gitega on 21 November.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egyptian ativists and prisoner of conscience in detention
Mahienour El-Masry has been detained on remand on 18 November, alongside activist Moataseem Medhat.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Environmental rights defender to appeal suspended sentence in Madagascar
Raleva has been released after being handed a two-year suspended sentence. He is appealing the sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defender in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was released, but remains at risk of detention.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Stop ill-treatment of human rights defender in Bahrain
Human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, appealed against his two year prison sentence for interviews he gave.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Oct 2017 -
Turkey: Court releases eight human rights activists, including Director of Amnesty TurkeyPress release 25 Oct 2017
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Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defenders in Israel/OPT
Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro are facing their next two court hearings on 29 October and 5 November.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 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 -
Urgent Action update: Activist faces trial for ‘homosexual propaganda’ in Russian Federation
On 18 October, a court in Samara will hear the case against human rights defender Evdokia Romanova.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Environmental human rights defender in Madagascar falsely accused
Malagasy environmental human rights defender Raleva has been detained based on the false charge of ‘use of false title’.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2017
