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Urgent Action: Missing human rights defender at risk of torture in Vietnam
Former prisoner of conscience, Nguyễn Bắc Truyển was last seen on 30 July 2017 after dropping off his wife outside her place of work in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Worrying crackdown on Kenyan defenders
Kenya’s NGO Coordination Board threatened to arrest George Kegoro, Executive Director of Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), Gladwell Otieno, Executive Director of African Center for Open Governance (AfriCOG) and Maina Kiai, former UN Special…
Urgent action outcomes 22 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian prisoner of conscience in critical health
Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Arash Sadeghi is critically ill and requires immediate hospitalization outside of prison. However, the authorities are refusing to authorize the transfer, apparently on the orders of the…
Urgent action outcomes 16 Aug 2017 -
Kenya: attempts to shut down two human rights organisations 'unlawful and irresponsible'Press release 15 Aug 2017
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Tep Vanny: Jailed for defending her homeTep Vanny is locked up in Cambodia simply for standing up against a luxury tourist construction project in her home town that’s seen thousands of families lose their homes. Read more.
15 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Pakistani defender forcibly disappeared
Human rights defender and Convenor of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, Punhal Sario, has been forcibly disappeared in Sindh Province, southern Pakistan.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Russia drops case against rights defender
The criminal case against prominent Russian human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko for “violation of ‘foreign agents’ law” was closed on 19 June due to an “absence of the elements of the crime”.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Syrian human rights defender executed
On 1 August, the family of Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist Bassel Khartabil Safadi received the news that he was extrajudicially executed in October 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Egyptian prisoner of conscience released
Human rights defender Tarek Hussein was released on 27 July. After being arbitrarily detained for 40 days, the former prisoner of conscience has now joined his family.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Crimean rights defender in Ukraine to appear in court
The pre-trial investigation into the case of Crimean Tatar human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku, falsely accused of membership in an alleged terrorist organisation in Crimea, has now concluded.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Aug 2017 -
UK/Turkey: Boris Johnson calls for release of jailed activists, including Amnesty staffAmnesty welcomes call from UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson for the release of detained Turkish human rights activists - including Amnesty Turkey's Director İdil Eser, and Chair, Taner Kiliç.
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Urgent Action update: Bahraini human rights defender charged
Bahraini human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was charged on 18 July by the Terrorism Crime Prosecution with using her human rights work as a cover to provide Alkarama Foundation with information and fake news about the situation in Bahrain.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender facing intimidation in Nigeria
Human rights defender Maurice Fangnon was detained at the Nigerian Police Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department in Abuja accused of providing police with false information that a member of a powerful royal family was responsible for…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egyptian defender arbitrarily detained
Human rights defender and lawyer Tarek Hussein has been arbitrarily detained by the Egyptian security forces for more than a month, despite the prosecutor’s decision to release him on bail on 18 June.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Turkey: re-arrest of four human rights defenders a "cruel and retrograde step"Press release 22 Jul 2017
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Urgent Action update: New sentence against human rights defender in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience, Nabeel Rajab, was sentenced to two years in prison on 10 July by a Bahraini court, and was convicted of “publishing and disseminating rumours and false news relating to the internal situation in the country” in relation to TV…
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Ten years in prison for human rights defender in Vietnam
Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, also known as blogger Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom), was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment on 29 June 2017 for “conducting propaganda” against the state under Article 88 of the Penal Code.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Defenders end hunger strike, release secure in Cuba
Siblings and human rights defenders Anairis Miranda Leyva, Adairis Miranda Leyva and Fidel Manuel Batista Leyva ended the hunger strike they began on 8 June after being harassed and intimidated in Cuba following their conditional release from prison.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detained defender interrogated continuously in Bahrain
Bahraini human rights defender, Ebtisam al-Saegh, has been under continuous and lengthy interrogation since her arrest on 3 July when she also started a hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jul 2017 -
Update on Turkiye Human Rights Defenders12 Jul 2017
