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Urgent Action update: 529 patients are still awaiting medical evacuation in Syria
29 of the 558 patients awaiting medical evacuation in besieged Eastern Ghouta have been evacuated and transferred.
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 good news: Missing Bangladeshi academic returned home
Mubashar Hasan, a well-known Bangladeshi academic who went missing was returned home on 22 December, after 44 days.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Mother loses custody of kids for son's long hair in Russia
Russian authorities have removed seven children from their adoptive mother after she allowed their hair to grow long.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jan 2018 -
End Action: Poland's President approves judicial overhaul bills
On 8 December, Poland’s Parliament passed two bills which increase the government’s control of the judiciary.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action: Environmental activists arbitrarily jailed in Cambodia
Two environmental activists were arrested in Cambodia for filming two vessels they suspected of illegally exporting sand.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jan 2018 -
Urgent Action Update: Violence against protestors escalates
At least 20 people have reportedly been killed, hundreds detained and others injured following the repression of protests
Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: 14 dead as a result of the Syrian government siege
14 individuals have died since July in Eastern Ghouta, as the Syrian government blocks their medical evacuation
Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Egypt continues to arrest government critics
On 16 November, security agents in plain clothes arrested Egyptian social media figure Islam al-Refaei
Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Head of dissolved main opposition party jailed
On 3 September, Kem Sokha, president of the dissolved main opposition party, was arrested at his house in Tuol Kork
Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Venezuela to run out of antiretrovirals in 2018Urgent action outcomes 21 Dec 2017
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Urgent Action good news: Human rights defender aquitted of all charges
Pastor Evan Mawarire was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner subjected to forced psychiatric treatment
A Ukrainian national detained in Russia in 2014 has been subjected to forced psychiatric treatment by prison authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Killings of land claimant leaders
Two land claimant leaders of collective Afro-descendent territories in Chocó have been killed by paramilitary groups.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Sahrawi prisoner's health critically deteriorating in Morocco
Abdeljalil Laaroussi’s health is critically deteriorating. He has been on hunger strike since 20 November 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience needs medical care in Venezuela
Prisoner of conscience Villca Fernández is being denied access to specialized medical treatment. His health deteriorates.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Cartoonist held in pre-trial detention in Equatorial Guinea
Ramón Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist and activist, is charged with counterfeiting money and held in pre-trial detention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Palestinian Human Rights Defender released
Hasan Safadi, Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, was released
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Russian authorities block activist's releaseUrgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2017