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Urgent Action update: Human rights activist in arbitrary detention, Saudi Arabia
Issa al-Nukheifi, a Saudi Arabian human rights activist, was detained again and remains in detention since 18 December. He is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Inhumane prison conditions need attention in Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Saeed Shirzad ended his 39-day hunger strike on 14 January after the authorities at Karaj’s Raja’i Shahr Prison made an oral promise to address his grievances about the inhumane treatment of…
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2017 -
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 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 -
Urgent Action update: Released on medical grounds but still on trial in Bahrain
Bahraini women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer was released from prison on 12 December on medical grounds. The court has ordered to serve the remaining four months of her combined 10 month sentence as a community service.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's assets frozen in Egypt
An Egyptian court has summarily frozen the assets of human rights defender Azza Soliman and may freeze the assets of three others.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
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 -
UA update: Human rights defender faces 11 years in prison in Saudi Arabia
On 1 December, human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s prison sentence was increased by two years on appeal, bringing his total prison sentence to 11 years. If detained he will be a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's trial postponed in Israel/OPT
A hearing on 6 December should have been the last opportunity for the Israeli military prosecution to produce the witnesses in the case against Palestinian lawyer – and former prisoner of conscience – Anas Barghouti.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested in Iran
Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two Palestinian human rights defenders on trial
Palestinian human rights defenders Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro face charges in an Israeli military court relating to their rights to freedom of expression and assembly. Both face time in prison if found guilty.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender harassed in Nicaragua
Francisca Ramírez, coordinator of the Council for the Defence of Our Land, Lake and Sovereignty, reported that the Nicaraguan police damaged and took possession of a pickup truck and another truck which she uses for her work, without notice.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Dec 2016 -
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 -
Standing Rock: a major victory for Indigenous people and their rightsFreedom of expression is a human right. But at Standing Rock, North Dakota, it’s under threat. We’re calling on police to respect, protect and fulfil Indigenous people’s right to peaceful protest.
Press release 29 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Spurious charges for human rights defender in Iran
Iranian human rights defender Mansoureh Behkish is facing trumped-up national security charges for peacefully defending the right to truth and justice concerning the mass killings of political prisoners, including her siblings and brother-in-law, during…
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Attempt on the life of peasant farmer in Colombia
An attempt was made on the life of a leader of the La Europa peasant farmer community in northern Colombia, as concern rises about a wave of killings of human rights defenders, including land activists.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Missing lawyer at risk of torture in China
Beijing human rights lawyer, Jiang Tianyong, has not been heard from since 21 November when he was due to board a train to Beijing from Changsha, Hunan.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender in solitary confinement in Malaysia
Maria Chin Abdullah, human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, was arrested on 18 November for organizing a rally on free and fair elections.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Young human right's defender shot dead in Guatemala
Guatemalan human rights defender Jeremy Abraham Barrios Lima was assassinated on 12 November. He was the Assistant to the Executive Director of the Guatemalan Centre for Legal, Environmental and Social Action (CALAS).
Urgent action outcomes 16 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two human rights defenders on trial in Saudi Arabia
Two co-founders of a Saudi Arabian human rights organization are on trial before the counter-terror court on charges related to their human rights work.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Nov 2016
