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Urgent Action: Demand transfer for native American activist
Native American activist Leonard Peltier imprisoned for over 40 years despite concerns over the fairness of his trial.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Over two thousand people risk forced eviction
The Deep Sea Community in Nairobi, Kenya is once again at imminent risk of forced evictions.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action : Poet held over poem calling for government reform
Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet in Somaliland, has been in detention since 12 January.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Detained online activist alleges torture in prison
Soro Tangboho alias Carton noir, an outspoken online activist, was arbitrarily arrested on 8 November 2018.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist denied family visits
Journalist Amade Abubacar was transferred from the Macomia district prison to Mieze prison in Pemba district.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Forty-seven students held incommunicado, one killed
Forty-seven students of Darfur origin remain in incommunicado detention after security agents arrested them in raids.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: TV producer held in North Korea for 50 years
Former TV producer from South Korea not allowed to return to his home country after arriving involuntarily to North Korea
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Labour rights activists at risk of further torture
Iranian labour rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian are at grave risk of further torture.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action outcome: Sentenced to one year in prison for posting Facebook video
Agustinus Yolemal, a Papuan pro-independence activist was sentenced to 1 year’s imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Canadian sentenced to death in a one-day retrial
Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian national, was sentenced to death after being convicted of drug trafficking at his retrial
Urgent action outcomes 07 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko was put under house arrest and may face up to six years in prison if convicted.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Activist arbitrarily detained for almost 6 months
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, has been arbitrarily for almost six months.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action outcome: Mauritanian anti-slavery activists released
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud were released from Nouakchott civil Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender tried in secret
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang”, was secretly tried.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Prominent Bedouin leader imprisoned by Israel
69-year-old human rights defender Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi, started serving a 10-month prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Two activists killed among escalating violence
On 17 January, unidentified armed men attacked demonstrators in Amatán, Chiapas state, southern Mexico.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Activist risks charges over forced ‘confession’
Suha Jbara was released after spending over two months in detention where she says she was tortured by interrogators.
Urgent action outcomes 06 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Bill could grant amnesty for grave crimes
Guatemala’s Congress could imminently pass a law that would grant an amnesty to those suspected or found guilty of crimes
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Woman human rights defender facing threats online
Woman human rights defender Fátima Mimbire has been receiving intimidating messages on social media from unknown people.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Journalist’s request for provisional release rejected
Macomia’s District Judicial Court ruled that the pre-trial detention of journalist Amade Abubacar was lawful.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Feb 2019