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Urgent Action update: Human rights defender being tortured in Evin, IranIranian prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Arash Sadeghi is being subjected to torture by Revolutionary Guard officials who are blocking his access to urgent medical care.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activist held in solitary confinement in South Korea
Lee Jin-young is being held in solitary confinement after being formally charged under the National Security Law (NSL) for the online distribution of materials that are deemed, by South Korean authorities, to ‘benefit’ North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist missing for more than six months in Rwanda
Journalist John Ndabarasa was last seen in Kigali on 7 August 2016. More than six months later, there is no news on his whereabouts or on the progress of the police investigation into his disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2017 -
Urgent Action update correction: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience on trial faces new charges in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab remains on trial for comments posted on Twitter. The verdict pursuant to his trial has been repeatedly postponed since October 2016. He also faces a new trial on separate charges related to TV interviews he gave. He…
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Falun Gong practitioner faces imprisonment in China
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Huixia has been indicted for “using an evil cult to undermine law enforcement” and is facing three years to life imprisonment. Her family have been unable to visit her since 3 June 2016, the date she was first detained.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Necessary medical treatment denied to prisoner in Vietnam
Prisoner of conscience Đinh Nguyên Kha is being denied medical treatment following an operation to remove a tumour from his stomach three months ago, which could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist back in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini activist Nader Abdulemam was arrested on 18 February and taken to Jaw prison to serve the remaining four and a half months of a prison sentence handed down to him for participating in and calling on people to join an illegal march in Manama in…
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Economist's next trial on 22 February in UAE
The trial of Dr Nasser bin Ghaith before the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began anew on 18 January. His next hearing is scheduled for 22 February.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds of peaceful marches attacked by police in Vietnam
Around 700 men, women and children were attacked by police while on the way to submit legal complaints against Formosa Plastics, with damages amounting to US$20 million.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Journalist charged for facebook post in the UAE
Jordanian poet and journalist Tayseer Salman al-Najjar appeared before the Criminal Chamber of the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi on 18 January, and again on 1 February, facing charges of “damaging the reputation and prestige of the Emirati state”, in…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Bahrain at 'tipping point' as crackdown continuesPress release 14 Feb 2017
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Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience held incommunicado in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian writer Nazeer al-Majed has been held in incommunicado detention since 18 January after being sentenced by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh to seven years in prison. He is a prisoner of conscience at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Algerian journalist Hassan Bouras released
Algerian journalist Hassan Bouras was released on 17 January after his sentence was reduced to a six-month suspended prison term on appeal.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2017 -
End Action Algeria: Journalist Mohamed Tamalt dies in detention in Algeria
British-Algerian freelance journalist Mohamed Tamalt, 41, died in custody, on 11 December 2016, in Mohamed Lamine Debaghine University Hospital in Bab El Oued, Algiers, over 5 months after his arrest.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian academic could be sentenced to death
Iranian academic specializing in disaster medicine Dr Ahmadreza Djalali, a resident of Sweden detained in Iran since 25 April 2016, has been threatened with the death penalty.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Opposition member facing new charges in Congo
Additional charges were brought against Paulin Makaya on 6 January in connection with a shooting at the central prison of Brazzaville on 29 December 2016, while six of his acquaintances were visiting.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Prisoners of conscience could face life in prison in Indonesia
Four Papuan political activists have been detained since 19 December 2016 in Manado, North Sulawesi Province for “rebellion” (makar).
Urgent action outcomes 06 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
