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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 -
Syria: opposition attacks on west Aleppo have shown 'shocking disregard for civilian lives'Press release 31 Oct 2016
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Iraq: new testimony shows ISIS taking human shields in battle for MosulPress release 27 Oct 2016
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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 -
Aleppo: area size of Manhattan hit by airstrikes in just one week - new satellite imagesPress release 19 Oct 2016
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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 -
Yemen: funeral hall killings are another reminder of need for UK to suspend arms sales to Saudi ArabiaPress release 10 Oct 2016
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Libya: children reduced to 'skin and bones' by military blockade of BenghaziPress release 29 Sep 2016
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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 -
Syria: 'horrific' attack on UN aid convoy will have disastrous consequences for desperate civiliansPress release 20 Sep 2016
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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