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Urgent Action: Human rights defender administratively detained in Israel
Israeli authorities arrested Palestinian human rights defender Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi on 1 May.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Bidun defender beaten during prison transfer in Kuwait
Bidun human rights defender ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli remains in prison to serve a separate sentence of three months. He was beaten by policemen as he was transferred from the court to Kuwait’s Central Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action: Thai Activist face 5 years for reporting torture
Three human rights activists face up to five years’ imprisonment and fines of up to 300,000 baht (US $8,400) for documenting torture in Thailand.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Egyptian human rights defenders still targeted
A Cairo court has confirmed a request to freeze the assets of Al-Andalus Institute for Tolerance and anti-Violence Studies and its director Ahmed Samih.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Another ACPRA member sentenced to prison in Saudi Arabia
Human rights defender Abdulaziz al-Shubaily has been convicted and sentenced on 29 May to eight years in prison by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh for his peaceful human rights activism.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Bahraini Human Rights Defender charged and detained
Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, Nabeel Rajab, was arrested on 13 June. He has been charged with “spreading false information and rumours in the aim of discrediting the State”.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Judge rules in favour of Indigenous Defender
A federal judge in Mexico has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights defender Ildefonso Zamora who has been in prison since November 2015. The Attorney General should now accept that the case is baseless and refrain from appealing the ruling. This will be…
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Mohammed Saleh Al-Bajadi released in Saudi Arabia
Human rights defender Mohammed Saleh al-Bajadi was released on 7 April from a rehabilitation centre where he had spent four months after being discharged from prison in November 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defenders' detention renewed
Cairo judges ordered on 5 June the renewed detention of two human rights defenders, Dr Ahmed Abdullah and Mina Thabet. Both are prisoners of conscience, detained solely for their human rights work with the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Venezuelan human rights defenders assaulted
A group of hooded people attacked the vehicle in which human rights defenders Raquel Sánchez and Oscar Alfredo Ríos Santos were traveling. Raquel Sánchez was hit on the head, which caused a severe wound. There are concerns that the attack was an attempt…
10 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Waleed Abu al-Khair starts hunger strike in Saudi Arabia
Imprisoned human rights defender and lawyer, Waleed Abu al-Khair, began a hunger strike on 7 June to protest the prison authorities’ refusal to provide him with adequate medical care and because of his ongoing ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Angolan human rights defender freed, lawyer risks jail
The Angolan Supreme Tribunal acquitted human rights defender José Marcos Mavungo on 19 May and he was released the following day.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Malek Adly's detention renewed for 15 days in Egypt
A Cairo court renewed on 1 June the detention of prisoner of conscience Malek Adly for 15 days. The human rights lawyer is in poor health, has been ill-treated and is held in solitary confinement. He is one of hundreds arrested in the wake of protests in…
Urgent action outcomes 03 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Al-Hamid sentenced to 9 years in prison in Saudi Arabia
Human rights defender Issa al-Hamid has been sentenced to nine years in prison after being convicted by the Specialised Criminal Court in Riyadh for his peaceful human rights activism. If detained he will be a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Jun 2016 -
Urgen Action update: Iran: 16-Year prison sentence for Narges Mohammadi
Iranian human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Narges Mohammadi was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment after her trial on 20 April. She suffers from serious illnesses and needs ongoing specialized medical care, which she cannot receive in…
Urgent action outcomes 02 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Returned activists at risk of unfair trial in China
Two Chinese activists are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and unfair trial. They were recognized as refugees by the UN’s Refugee Agency, but were forcibly returned to China from Thailand in violation of international law. One had been held in…
Urgent action outcomes 27 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defenders under threat in South Africa
Sikhosiphi Rhadebe, land rights activist and chairperson of the Amadiba Crisis Committee (ACC), was shot dead in March. Before his death he learnt that his name was on a ‘hit list’ and so were those of two other leaders of the ACC. There are concerns…
Urgent action outcomes 26 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Rights defender facing criminal prosecution in Russia
Prominent human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko has been repeatedly summoned by an investigator and may become the first to be criminally prosecuted under the “foreign agents law”.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2016 -
Urgent action update: Bidun Human Rights Defender's sentence upheld in Kuwait
Human rights defender and member of the stateless Bidun community ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli had his one-year imprisonment sentence followed by deportation upheld by the Court of Cassation on 16 May. He has been on hunger strike since his arrest on 18 April.
Urgent action outcomes 19 May 2016 -
Update: Egyptian human rights defender detained
Lawyer and human rights defender Malek Adly was arrested and ill-treated by Egyptian security forces on 5 May
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016