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Urgent Action update: Omani journalists released, next hearing date set
Azamn editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Maamari and deputy editor-in-chief Youssef al-Haj were released on 10 October after the Appeal Court in Muscat reduced their bail. The next hearing in the case has been set for 7 November.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Nabeel Rajab's trial postponed to 31 October in Bahrain
The High Criminal Court has postponed its verdict in the case of Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab to 31 October.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Four released on bail, five still detained in Togo
Two prisoners of conscience and two other men have been released on bail in Dapaong, Northern Togo.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Four released on bail, five still detained in Togo
Two prisoners of conscience and two other men have been released on bail in Dapaong, Northern Togo.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two journalists on trial for defamation in Timor Leste
Two Timorese journalists, Raimundos Oki and Lourenco Vicente Martins, are facing trial on criminal defamation charges filed by Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister over a 2015 article they published about irregularities during the tendering process for a…
Urgent action outcomes 12 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Grave concern over Thai computer crimes act
Thailand’s National Legislative Assembly is considering amendments to the rights-restricting Computer Crimes Act (2007).
Urgent action outcomes 11 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Kuwaiti Bidun rights defender imprisoned
On 20 September, the Misdemeanours Court of Cassation upheld a sentence of one year’s imprisonment and deportation of ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli, a defender of the rights of the stateless Bidun community in Kuwait, for charges relating to a peaceful…
Urgent action outcomes 11 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed musician and filmaker on hunger strike in Iran
Iranian brothers Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian began a hunger strike on 8 September in protest at the authorities’ refusal to allow them medical leave, as well as the decision to separate the brothers into different sections of Tehran’s Evin Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Political activist escaped abduction attempt in Indonesia
On 24 September, men in plain clothes attempted to abduct Papuan political activist Agustinus Aud at his home in Sorong, West Papua Province.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Falun Gong practitioner said to have been tortured in China
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Huixia was unable to stand or walk after being tortured, according to a fellow detainee. Suffering from chronic illness and poor health, she currently has no access to her family or a lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Azamn journalists sentenced to prison in Oman
An Omani court of first instance issued its verdict on 26 September against three journalists from the daily Azamn newspaper. Two of the journalists received three-year prison sentences and the third a one-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Jordan: journalist Nahed Hattar's murder 'deplorable'Press release 26 Sep 2016
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Chelsea Manning's 14 days in solitary for suicide attempt is 'cruel and inhuman'Press release 23 Sep 2016
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Chelsea Manning's 14 days in solitary for suicide attempt is 'cruel and inhuman'Press release 23 Sep 2016
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Bahrain: today's dissolution of main opposition party is 'flagrant attack on freedom of expression'Press release 22 Sep 2016
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Urgent Action: Six detained in China for reporting G20 protests
Six citizen journalists from the Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), were detained for covering protests in relation to the G20 Summit. Three have since been released but one is still missing and two remain in detention without any…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Activist released from psychiatric detention
Ilmi Umerov was released on 7 September after spending three weeks in forced psychiatric detention. He remains under criminal investigation for his peaceful activism against the Russian annexation of Crimea and could face a prison sentence, if convicted.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Three Omani journalists on trial face jail
The trial of two detained Omani journalists in connection with articles they published alleging corruption in the judiciary, and a third journalist for his tweets, is ongoing.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Activist forcibly detained in psychiatric hospital in Ukraine
Prisoner of conscience Ilmi Umerov was sent to a psychiatric institution “for examination” on 18 August.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Health concern for British-Algerian journalist in Algeria
British-Algerian freelance journalist Mohamed Tamalt is currently in intensive care. He fell into a coma over a week ago.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2016