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Urgent Action: Three Lao activists held incommunicado
Three Lao human rights activists have been arrested in circumstances that may constitute enforced disappearances. They remain in incommunicado detention since they appeared on national television on 25 May in a report that confirmed that they had been…
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Whereabouts of Burundian journalist unknown
Jean Bigirimana was last seen in Bugarama, Muramvya province, on 22 July. There are indications that Jean Bigirimana was arrested by security forces. The police spokesperson has however denied these allegations.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Three Laos activists held incommunicado
Three Lao human rights activists have been arrested in what may constitute enforced disappearances. They remain in incommunicado detention since they appeared on national television on 25 May.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender at risk of torture in Pakistan
Human rights defender Wahid Baloch may have been subjected to enforced disappearance by state security forces in Karachi, Pakistan, on the afternoon of 26 July. His family does not know where he is or what has happened to him.
Urgent action outcomes 03 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Mother pleads to find her disappeared son in Ukraine
Dmytro Koroliov was given a suspended five-year sentence in 2015 for joining the separatist forces in eastern Ukraine. His mother claims he was abducted by the Security Service on 3 August 2015 and that he has been held in secret detention since.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Jul 2016 -
Egypt: secret detention and torture of opponents is 'key instrument of state policy' - new reportPress release 13 Jul 2016
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Egypt: Officially you do not existIn Egypt, hundreds of students, political activists and protesters have vanished in the last year. They have been taken from their homes by Egypt’s National Security Agency. Victims report of brutal treatment and torture at the hands of their captors.
13 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Sentence completed in March 2015, still in Iraq jail
Walid Yunis Ahmad was due to be released on 6 March 2015. He still remains in prison in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq more than a year after having completed his five-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Jul 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ten Yemeni journalists forcibly disappeared
Ten Yemeni journalists have been forcibly disappeared since 23 May after they were moved from al-Habra pre-trial detention facility in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, to an unknown location. They have been arbitrarily detained since 9 June 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Ukraine: Crimean Tatar activist forcibly disappeared
Crimean Tatar activist Ervin Ibragimov went missing on 24 May. Footage from a CCTV camera shows a group of men forcing him into a van and driving away. He has not been heard from since, and there are serious concerns for his safety.
Urgent action outcomes 27 May 2016 -
Yemen: Huthis have carried out wave of detentions and torture - new reportPress release 18 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Eight students in Sudan arrested, whereabouts unknown
National Intelligence Security Service (NISS) agents raided the office of a prominent human rights lawyer, Nabil Adib, in Khartoum on 5 May and arrested 10 people.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Ivory Coast should hand former first lady over to International Criminal CourtPress release 09 May 2016
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Malawi: authorities must act after two more ritual albinism killingsPress release 05 May 2016
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Urgent Action: Whereabouts of disappeared Iranian man unknown
The Iranian authorities have yet to establish the fate and whereabouts of Yousef Silavi, from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, who has been missing since November 2009.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Apr 2016 -
Urgent Action: Chechen man forcibly disappeared in Russia
Khusein Betelgeriev, has been missing since being taken by uniformed men from his home in Grozny on 31 March 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2016 -
West Bank: Israeli soldier shooting dead a wounded Palestinian man is 'potential war crime'Press release 24 Mar 2016
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Urgent Action: DRC whereabouts of youth activists unknown
Two LUCHA activists, Bienvenu Matumo and Marc Heritier Capitaine were arrested on 16 February in Kinshasa.
Urgent action outcomes 01 Mar 2016
