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Urgent Action: Mother and child in China at risk of forcible return to North Korea
Lee Su-jung and her son are currently in detention in China and are at risk of forcible return to North Korea.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: 30 relatives of Uighur human rights activist arbitrarily detained in China
Chinese authorities have detained up to 30 relatives of Uighur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Singer-songwriter activist formally arrested in China
Xu Lin was formally arrested on 2 November while Liu Sifang, was released on bail.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Forcibly returned activist in China at greater torture risk
Without any notification to his family, Dong Guangping has been moved to a new detention centre.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Stop crackdown in Egypt against LGBTI individuals
Those in Egypt arrested for their perceived sexual orientation has risen to 76, with at least 32 sentenced to prison.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Rights lawyer detained without official charge in China
Sixty year old human rights lawyer criminally detained for nearly a month without any official information on the charges
Urgent action outcomes 03 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action: Two singer-songwriter activists criminally detained in China
Activists Xu Lin and Liu Sifang have been criminally detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist at risk in notorious detention centre in Uzbekistan
Uzbekistani journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was detained by the National Security Services in Tashkent.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Uzbekistani journalist at risk of extradition
Uzbekistani journalist and poet Narzullo Akhunzhonov was detained by Ukrainian border guards on 20 September.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activist tried in closed court for subversion in China
After more than 28 months in detention, prominent activist Wu Gan (pen name Tufu, ‘The Butcher’) remains incarcerated.
Urgent action outcomes 16 Oct 2017 -
Azerbaijan: Freedom for those targeted in LGBTI crackdownIn September 2017, more than 100 people suspected of being gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans were rounded up by Azerbaijani police in Baku in a deliberate attempt to intimidate. After global pressure, all those detained were released finally released.
13 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: All LGBTI people detained in mass raids in Azerbaijan released
All LGBTI persons detained during the raids carried out across Baku on 23 September have been released.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Torture fears for detained human rights lawyer in Tajikistan
Human rights lawyer Buzurgmekhr Yorov is serving a 28-year prison sentence on politically motivated grounds.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egypt must stop homophobic persecution
The Egyptian authorities have detained at least 57 people for their perceived sexual orientation.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Uighur woman incommunicado after secret trial in China
Buzainafu Abudourexiti was suddenly detained in March 2017 and sentenced in a secret trial to seven years in prison.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Juvenile offender at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia
Abdulkareem al-Hawaj sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court on 11 September.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Chechen man's whereabouts in Russia unknown
Imran Salamov is a 39-year old Chechen man who was forcibly returned from Belarus to Russia on 5 September.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained student activist risks ill-treatment in Sudan
Naser Aldeen Mukhtar Mohamed, the former chairperson of the Darfur Students’ Association at the Holy Quran University, was arrested on 22 August in Khartoum by National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) agents.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender remain in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was removed from solitary confinement following a two-day hunger strike in protest at her conditions of detention. She is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017
