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Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado for months
Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held incommunicado since 8 January 2019.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action: Newspaper editor detained without charge
On 15 July 2019, Michael Rial Christopher, South Sudanese newspaper editor was taken off a flight to Kenya and arrested.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Uyghur activist’s 30 relatives still detained
Up to 30 relatives of Uyghur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer have been detained for nearly two years without trial.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Arbitrarily detained couple remains held
Egyptian authorities have decided to imprison Ola al-Qaradawi over unfounded charges.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Aug 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed Crimean Tatar’s health still at risk
On 3 July a court in Russian - occupied Crimea rejected Edem Bekirov’s appeal to review his pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Jul 2019 -
Urgent Action: Security agent ill-treated in detention
South Sudanese security agent is detained at the Riverside detention centre- notorious for its extremely poor conditions.
Urgent action outcomes 29 Jul 2019 -
Urgent Action sad news: Prisoner dies of cancer in detention
Alia Abdelnoor Mohamed Abdelnoor, who was in the terminal stages of cancer, died while chained to a bed.
Urgent action outcomes 15 May 2019 -
Guantánamo still a 'stain' on USA's human rights record'Guantánamo continues to operate as a symbol of Islamophobia'
Press release 10 Jan 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking academic in critical condition
Dr Nasser bin Ghaith’s health has severely deteriorated after 70 days on hunger strike.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2018 -
Urgent Action update: NGO worker prison visit denied for months
Lee Ming-che, first foreign NGO worker detained after China’s new Foreign NGO Management Law came into effect.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Nov 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Life sentence for Bahraini opposition leader
On 4 November 2018, the Bahraini Appeal Court sentenced opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, to life imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Nov 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Acquitted former child soldier remains jailed
Former child solider Aung Ko Htwe was acquitted but remains in prison serving two years and six months on other charges.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Nov 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Two missing prisoners found; torture fears remain
On 31 October the two men were confirmed to being held at pre-trial detention centres in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Nov 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Arbitrarily detained prisoner on hunger strike in Egypt
Ola al-Qaradawi started a hunger strike, demanding the end of her arbitrary detention and abusive prison conditions
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jul 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Guantánamo transfer policy under wraps
The US Secretary of Defense has sent the White House his policy recommendations on detainee transfers to Guantánamo.
Urgent action outcomes 15 May 2018 -
USA: plans to send new detainees to Guantánamo strongly opposedhe prison should be shut down, and the current 41 detainees still held there either given fair trials or released
Press release 02 May 2018 -
After Saydnaya, we'll rebuildBlog post 08 Apr 2018
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Urgent Action: Oppose detainee transfers to Guantánamo
The US authorities are preparing for possible detainee transfers to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action good news: Student held in solitary confinement released in Sudan
Naser Aldeen Mukhtar Mohamed was released without charge on 28 January.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Kurdish man sentenced to death after unfair trial
Iranian Kurdish prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi has been on hunger strike since 27 January.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2018
