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Urgent Action: Man seized in Libya held incommunicado
A Libyan man facing capital charges in the USA was seized by US forces in Libya on 29 October and taken to a ship
Urgent action outcomes 03 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 Update: Environmental rights defender to appeal suspended sentence in Madagascar
Raleva has been released after being handed a two-year suspended sentence. He is appealing the sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defender in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was released, but remains at risk of detention.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Nov 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Stop ill-treatment of human rights defender in Bahrain
Human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, appealed against his two year prison sentence for interviews he gave.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Execution set after 26 years on death row in USA
Patrick Hannon is scheduled to be executed in Florida at 6pm on 8 November. He was convicted in July 1991.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Doctor and academic sentenced to death in Iran
Iranian-born Swedish resident and academic sentenced to death for “corruption on earth" after a grossly unfair trial
Urgent action outcomes 27 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Risk of forced displacement in Chocó, Colombia
Indigenous governor killed by armed men. The community is at risk of forced displacement following this violence.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Law leading to military impunity sanctioned by Brazilian President
Law sanctioned that transfers to the Military Court the ability to try human rights violations and crimes against life
Urgent action outcomes 26 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Mental competence in doubt as execution set in USA
Jack Greene, aged 62, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 9 November.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Oct 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 update: Russian activist found guilty of 'homosexual propoganda'
On 18 October, a magistrate in Samara, Russia found Evdokia Romanova guilty of spreading ‘homosexual propaganda’.
Urgent action outcomes 25 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Taiwan NGO worker faces life imprisonment in China
Lee Ming-cheh was seen “confessing” on camera to charges of “subversion” during his trial.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Iranian prisoner of conscience critically ill
Mohammad Nazari, who has been unjustly languishing in prison for over two decades, is critically ill.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights lawyer, activists arbitrarily detained in Tanzania
Thirteen health and human rights activists, including two South Africans and one Ugandan, have been detained.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defenders in Israel/OPT
Farid al-Atrash and Issa Amro are facing their next two court hearings on 29 October and 5 November.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists indicted for peaceful assembly in Thailand
Five student activists, a land rights activist and two human rights lawyers face six months imprisonment and unfair trial
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Lesotho soldiers risk facing a fresh trial
The Court Martial of the Lesotho Defence Forces (LDF) soldiers facing mutiny charges been postponed.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Urgent Action: Death threats for human rights lawyer in India
Dalit lawyer and human rights defender, Rajat Kalsan, faces fabricated charges and death threats due to his work.
Urgent action outcomes 23 Oct 2017 -
Ugent Action Update: Fifteen released, five still arbitrarily detained in South Sudan
Fifteen of the 21 released. Five men remain arbitrarily detained at the NSS headquarters, while one has been charged.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Oct 2017