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Urgent Action update: Further probes ordered into Nabeel Rajab's case in Bahrain
Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab’s verdict has been postponed once again. The High Criminal Court has scheduled the next hearing for 15 December to allow further investigations into his Twitter account.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Three activists face harassment and risk arrest in Vietnam
Three human rights defenders engaged in activism relating to an ecological disaster in Vietnam are facing severe harassment, including public denunciations, prosecution and death threats.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2016 -
Urgent Action: Detained human rights defender on hunger strike in Saudi Arabia
Human rights defender Khaled al-Omair has been on hunger strike since 6 October in protest at his continuing detention. He was due to be released on 5 October after completing his eight-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action reissue: Fears for safety of murder victim's family in Venezuela
Luis Urbano, son of human rights defender José Luis Urbano, was murdered by police officers in the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela, on 10 October. The safety of his family is at risk. This UA has been reissued as the details of the Venezuelan Ambassador…
Urgent action outcomes 25 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Detained rights defender's family at risk in Ukraine
The family of the Crimean Tatar human rights defender Emir-Usein Kuku is facing threats and harassment as a way to intimidate him.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two Campesino leaders shot dead in Honduras
On 18 October, José Ángel Flores and Silmer Dionisio George of the Unified Campesino Movement of the Aguán were murdered.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Fears for safety of murder victim's family in Venezuela
Luis Urbano, son of human rights defender José Luis Urbano, was murdered by police officers in the state of Anzoátegui, Venezuela, on 10 October. The safety of his family is at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Vietnamese human rights blogger arrested
Human rights defender Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, known as blogger Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) was arrested on 10 October and has been charged with “conducting propaganda” against the state under Article 88 of Viet Nam’s Penal Code.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Defender threatened for work with campesinos in Argentina
Human rights defender and social leader Rubén Ortiz is suffering from constant threats and intimidation related to his support for the rights of peasant farmer (campesino) communities and mission workers in Argentina.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Defender combatting statelessness attacked in Dominican Republic
Around 8.30pm on 25 September, Dominican human rights defender Genaro Rincon was verbally and physically assaulted in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Kashmiri human rights defender arbitrarily detained in India
Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights defender, has been placed in administrative detention a day after a court ordered his release on 20 September.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Egyptian human rights defenders’ assets frozen
An Egyptian court has upheld an asset freeze against five human rights defenders and three NGOs.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Defender in Indonesia under investigation for defamation
I Wayan Suardana, a prominent human rights defender in Bali, is facing a defamation suit for posting mocking statements on his Twitter account against supporters of a large-scale land reclamation project in Benoa Bay, in southern Bali by a commercial…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Sep 2016 -
End Action: Brothers convicted: one freed, one still held in Sudan
Two activists, Emad Al Sadig Ismael Hamdoun and his brother Erwa Al Sadig Ismael Hamdoun have been sentenced to six months and one year imprisonment respectively by a court in Khartoum, Sudan. Both were sentenced to time already served. Emad Al Sadig…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Detained Angolan activist beaten by prison officials
Angolan youth activist, Francisco Mapanda, was beaten by prison officials for asking that his family be informed of a prison transfer before he agreed to it.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Detention of Ahmed Abdullah renewed.
The detention of Ahmed Abdullah has been renewed for a further 45 days, after a Cairo criminal court accepted an appeal against his release on bail.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Egyptian human rights defender Malek Adly released
Human rights defender Malek Adly has been released on 28 August after he spent 115 days in detention. The court did not set bail as a condition of his release but required him to specify a place of residence as he faces an ongoing criminal investigation.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience subject to ill-treatment in Vietnam
Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, a human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, serving a 16-year sentence has been transferred to a remote prison in northern Viet Nam.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ngo staff and families at risk of asset freezing in Egypt
On 17 September an Egyptian court will rule on whether to freeze the assets of leading human rights defenders and members of their families as part of the “foreign funding case”.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Aug 2016 -
End Action: Rights lawyer and journalist released in Egypt
Mahienour El-Massry and Youssef Shaaban were released on 13 August after serving their 15-month prison sentence. Loay El-Kahwagi, who was sentenced in the same case, is still serving his sentence and is due to be released in March 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Aug 2016