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Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders held incommunicado in Vietnam
Within 10 days of each other, three unassociated Vietnamese human rights defenders were arrested in January and are currently being held in incommunicado pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Crimean lawyer released but still at risk in Ukraine
Human rights lawyer Emil Kurbedinov was released on 5 February in Simferopol, Crimea, having served 10 days in administrative detention to which he was sentenced as reprisal for his human rights work. Kurbedinov vowed to continue his work.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Feb 2017 -
The human slaughterhouse: Mass hangings and extermination in Syrian prisonSaydnaya Prison is where the Syrian government quietly slaughters its own people. It is a place carefully designed to humiliate, degrade, sicken, starve and ultimately exterminate those trapped inside.
07 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Increasing smear campaign against defenders in Honduras
International organization Global Witness, along with Honduran organizations MILPAH, COPINH and CEHPRODEC are facing a smear campaign against them for their work defending land, territory and environmental rights in the country.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Zimbabwe human rights defender re-arrested
Pastor Evan Mawarire, a human rights defender and leader of the #ThisFlag movement in Zimbabwe, was arrested again on 1 February on arrival at Harare International Airport.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2017 -
Israel: flurry of settlement announcements show 'brazen' disregard for international lawPress release 01 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience's conviction upheld in Kazakhstan
On 20 January, the Atyrau Regional Court in western Kazakhstan upheld the decision to sentence human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience Maks Bokaev and Talgat Ayan to five years in prison for their involvement in the organization of peaceful…
Urgent action outcomes 01 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Demand release of human rights defender in Cuba
Five days after Fidel Castro’s death, human rights defender Eduardo Cardet was detained and has since been held in provisional detention in Holguín, south-east Cuba.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights lawyer incarcerated in Crimea
Prominent human rights lawyer in Crimea Emil Kurbedinov was sentenced to 10 days’ administrative detention on 26 January. He is being targeted for his human rights work and should be immediately released.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender jailed for online activism in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights defender Essam Koshak has been detained since 8 January 2017 for his online activism. He is a prisoner of conscience and should be released immediately and unconditionally.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Health concern for professor on hunger strike in Sudan
Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, 58, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender has been on hunger strike since 21 January 2017 to protest against his arbitrary detention.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: End harassment of indigenous rights defenders in Malaysia
Five indigenous (Orang Asli) human rights defenders and two journalists were arbitrarily detained by the Department of Forestry on 23 January following peaceful protests against logging licences granted by local authorities. They have all been released,…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jan 2017 -
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 -
Aleppo: UN Security Council resolution long overduePress release 19 Dec 2016
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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
