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Urgent Action: Crackdown on Formosa spill activists continues in Vietnam
The Vietnamese authorities are continuing to crackdown on activists who have raised concerns about the 2016 Formosa environmental disaster and its aftermath.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist detained incommunicado for 17 days in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights defender Ali Shaaban has been detained incommunicado since 15 May, raising fears that he might be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He may be a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Family visits denied for detained journalists in Yemen
Yemeni journalists arbitrarily detained by Huthi forces have been interrogated in the month of May and since then denied regular access to their families.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Priest harassed over memorial to war dead in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan priest, Father Elil Rajendram, is being harassed by the police over his efforts to help families memorialize their loved ones lost during the armed conflict.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Lawyer on bail remains under tight surveillance in China
Human rights lawyer Xie Yang was released on bail the day after his trial for “inciting subversion of state power” and “disrupting court order”. The verdict has not yet been announced and he continues to be kept under tight surveillance.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Two journalists may face imprisonment in Timor-Leste
In the case of two Timorese journalists, the lead prosecutor has recommended imprisonment of one year for Raimundos Oki, and a two year suspended sentence for Lourenco Vicente Martins if they are convicted of “defamatory false information.”
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Women's rights activist in critical health in Iran
The health of Iranian women’s rights activist, Atena Daemi, has sharply deteriorated. After 46 days on hunger strike, she is critically ill and her body has started rejecting water.
Urgent action outcomes 24 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Chinese Activists indicted for commemorating Tiananmen
Four activists have been indicted for “inciting subversion of state power” for producing and promoting their own baijiu (a popular Chinese liquor) that commemorated the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three activists sentenced to prison in secret trial in Laos
According to sources, three Lao human rights activists, Soukan Chaithad, Somphone Phimmasone and Lodkham Thammavong, were sentenced to between 12 and 20 years’ in prison following a secret trial held in April 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2017 -
Chelsea Manning, human rights heroine and trailblazing whistleblower, will walk freeChelsea Manning, human rights heroine and trailblazing whistleblower, has finally walked free after seven years in prison. She had faced incarceration in military prison until 2045, but your actions helped see her released.
Blog post 16 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Lawyer and activists detained for facebook posts in Thailand
Detained lawyer Prawet Prapanukul, Danai, Wanchai and three others were arrested by a joint military security force on 29 April and held in an unknown location for five days before Bangkok’s Criminal Court on 3 May remanded the six men to custody.
Urgent action outcomes 15 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained journalist needs proper medical care in Madagascar
Fernand Cello, a Malagasy investigative journalist, is facing seven charges including ‘defamation’, ‘endangering state security’, and ‘incitation to hatred’ after he was arrested on Friday, 5 May.
Urgent action outcomes 15 May 2017 -
Russia: YouTuber convicted of blasphemy for playing Pokémon Go in a churchPress release 11 May 2017
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Urgent Action update: Jailed Iranian human rights defender in poor health
Following 31 days of hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison, Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi is in poor health, and requires immediate hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained community leader wrongly charged in Togo
Salomée T. Abalodo, a farmer and community leader, has been charged with ‘rebellion’ and ‘participation in an unauthorised protest’.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists given six-month suspended sentence in Chad
Two Chadian activists Nadjo Kaina Palmer and Bertrand Sollo have received a six-month suspended prison sentence. They are appealing this judgment.
Urgent action outcomes 08 May 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi released
Iranian filmmaker Keywan Karimi was released from Tehran’s Evin prison on 19 April 2017. He had been imprisoned since 23 November 2016. Keywan Karimi was a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Chadian activist freed, two others on trial
Chadian activist Dingamnayal Nely Versinis has been released. Fellow activists Nadjo Kaina Palmer and Bertrand Sollo, detained at Amsinene prison, are on trial for their role in calling for peaceful protests.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Three detained activists falsely charged in Chad
Three Chadian activists being detained at the Amsinene prison are facing false charges for their role in calling for peaceful protests. They are prisoners of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017 -
Urgent Action: Dutch-Iranian prisoner denied heart surgery in Iran
Dutch-Iranian national Sabri Hassanpour, who has been detained in Tehran’s Evin prison since his arrest on 19 April 2016, is being denied urgently needed open heart surgery by the Iranian authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 03 May 2017
