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Urgent Action update: Detained human rights defender awaiting trial in Burundi
Nestor Nibitanga remains in detention awaiting trial for charges of ‘threatening state security’ and ‘rebellion’.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Tortured journalist in Uzbekistan must be immediately released
Two officers leading the investigation on the case against detained journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev were suspended
Urgent action outcomes 12 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Forcibly returned woman faces treason charges in North Korea
Koo Jeong-hwa (previously identified as Lee Su-jung in China) has been detained since 3 December 2017 in North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: 21-year old man arrested at 16 at risk of execution in Iran
Abolfazl Naderi was 16 years old at the time of his arrest and was sentenced to death after a grossly unfair trial
Urgent action outcomes 09 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Fears for activist held incommunicado in China
First detained on 2 September 2017, human rights defender Zhen Jianghua has not yet been allowed access to his lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2018 -
Urgent Action: Opposition member risks further ill-treatment in Gabon
Gabonese political opposition member, Bertrand Zibi Abeghe, has alleged that he was subjected to ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Lawyer detained for 'inciting subversion' in China
Beijing human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng is currently being held under “residential surveillance in a designated location”
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Court of cassation upholds death sentence
On 29 January, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence imposed against Maher Abbas Ahmad.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Two young men remain disappeared in Mexico
Between 27 December and 3 January, at least seven young men disappeared in Chilpancingo, the capital of Guerrero state
Urgent action outcomes 25 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Two men still missing one year later in South Sudan
Dong Samuel Luak and Aggrey Idri, who were disappeared a year ago are still missing.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Opposition member alleges torture in Sudan prison
Radwan Daoud alleges that he has been subjected to torture while in the custody in Khartoum
Urgent action outcomes 18 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Chinese lawyer refused access to detained activist
Liu Feiyue who is facing charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, has been again unable to meet his lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Medical practitioner held incommunicado in China
Shafkat Abasi, a member of the Tatar ethnic minority, was detained on 13 March of 2017 and has not been heard from since
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action update: Sentenced activist remains at risk of torture in China
Activist Wu Gan (better known by his pen name Tufu, ‘The Butcher’) was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Former POC feared to be in detention again
The whereabouts of Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains a mystery after he has been missing for over three months.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detained rights lawyer further ill-treated in China
Sixty-year-old human rights lawyer Li Yuhan reported to her lawyer that she was left unconscious and unattended for hours
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Mother and son risk being sent to prison camp in North Korea
A woman who was identified as Lee Su-jung in China and her son were forcibly returned to North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer in China sentenced to 2 years in prison
Lawyer Jiang Tianyong has been sentenced to two year of imprisonment for “inciting subversion of state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Nov 2017 -
Amnesty uncovers 'brutal' illegal torture equipment at Paris arms fairBanned spiked batons, spiked electric-shock forks, electric-shock vests & heavy leg-irons on sale from Chinese companies
Press release 22 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Rights lawyer abused and at risk of torture in China
Li Yuhan, a sixty-year-old human rights lawyer, has been formally arrested for “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017
