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Urgent Action: Kachin pastors missing after assisting journalists in Myanmar
Two ethnic Kachin pastors, who had been helping journalists report on military abuses in northern Shan State, have been missing since 24 December 2016.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Journalists' sentences reduced, one aquitted in Oman
On 26 December, the Appeal Court in Muscat reduced the three-year prison sentences of two Azamn journalists, Ibrahim al-Maamari and Youssef al-Haj, to six and 12 months respectively.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Website founder for 'inciting subversion' in China
Liu Feiyue, founder and director of Hubei-based human rights website “Civil Rights and Livelihood Watch” (www.msguancha.com), has been formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Lucha activist in incommunicado detention in DRC
Youth activist Musasa Tshibanda remains in incommunicado detention after the release of his fellow activist Gloria Senga on 27 December.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
UA update: Abortion vote pending after president's veto in Dominican Republic
In December 2016, the Dominican President rejected a regressive reform of the Criminal Code regarding abortion that had previously been adopted by the Senate.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist threatened by Chechen official in Russian Federation
The speaker of the Chechen parliament used his Instagram account to threaten prominent journalist Grigory Shvedov on 6 January.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking activist in poor health in Evin, Iran
Iranian prisoner of conscience Ali Shariati is in poor health in Evin Prison, 67 days into an ongoing hunger strike against his imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jan 2017 -
Why Edward Snowden should be pardonedHe stood up for our rights, starting a global debate on mass surveillance that changed the world – yet whistleblower Edward Snowden still faces up to 30 years in prison. We continue to call on the US president to pardon him, rather than punish him for…
06 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Twenty activists arrested after peaceful sit-in in the DRC
Twenty activists of the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) were arrested during a peaceful sit-in in the city of Goma on 21 December.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two political activists charged with rebellion in Indonesia
Two Papuan political activists have been detained as a result of their peaceful political activities and charged with “rebellion” under the Indonesian Criminal Code.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist's bail revoked for commenting on Facebook in Thailand
Activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa may face up to 15 years’ imprisonment for posting a news article online.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Allow jailed mother visits from her daughter in Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have pressured British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a prisoner of conscience, to choose between moving her two-year-old daughter into prison with her for up to three days a week or sign a…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: NGO founder on hunger strike after conviction in Tunisia
Former prison officer and NGO founder Walid Zarrouk is on hunger strike in protest against his 24 November prison sentences for "insulting public officials".
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Demand relase of Cuban graffiti artist in Cuba
Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’) has been transferred to another new detention centre where he continues to be detained without charge since his arrest on 26 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Released on medical grounds but still on trial in Bahrain
Bahraini women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer was released from prison on 12 December on medical grounds. The court has ordered to serve the remaining four months of her combined 10 month sentence as a community service.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalists need urgent medical care in Yemen
Journalist Abdelkhaleq Amran is in urgent need of medical attention after being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to his family. Nine other journalists arbitrarily detained with him also require medical attention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Urge the president to decriminalize abortion in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Congress adopted a comprehensive reform of the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Journalist at risk of further jail time in Uzbekistan
Journalist Muhammad Bekzhanov, aged 62, who is scheduled to be released in January after spending more than 17 years in prison on politically motivated charges, has been put in a punishment cell.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Crimea: 'ruthless' Russian authorities have crushed opposition to annexation - new reportPress release 15 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action update: Jail sentence against opposition leader upheld in Bahrain
On 12 December the Appeal Court in Bahrain issued its verdict against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and sentenced him again to nine years in prison after a retrial.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016
