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Urgent Action update: Taiwan NGO worker to be tried for subversion in China
Lee Ming-cheh will be tried for subversion by a court in Yueyang city, Hunan province.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Religious minority leader arrested in Algeria
Mohamed Fali, the president of the Ahmadiyya religious community, was arrested in Algeria on 28 August.
Urgent action outcomes 11 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: Activists in Vietnam held incommunicado may face life in prison
Three Vietnamese activists are being held incommunicado at B14 prison in Hà Nội after their arrests on 30 July 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Couple in Egypt held in solitary confinement for 66 days
Ola al-Qaradawy and her husband Hossam Khalaf have been detained in solitary confinement since 3 July.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Security measures for defender implemented in Mexico
Authorities have implemented some security measures for Mario Luna, human rights defender.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: US national sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia
US national Robert Slaten was sentenced to death on 13 July in Saudi Arabia on appeal.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Saudi Arabian prisoner of conscience on trial
Saudi Arabian activist Issa al-Nukheifi was brought to trial before the counter-terror court on 21 August.
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: Poet in China detained after commemorating Liu Xiaobo
Poet Wu Mingliang, better known as “Langzi” (literally “Wanderer”), has been criminally detained on suspicion of “illegal business operations”. Previously held for questioning after co-signing a letter in support of Liu Xiaobo, Amnesty International…
Urgent action outcomes 06 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detainee in Venezuela held incommunicado again
After being disappeared for 23 days, Raúl Isaías Baduel is once again being held incommunicado at the National Intelligence Service facilities in Caracas, denied access to his family and lawyers. His family is concerned for his physical and mental…
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 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to death in Iran
On 27 August a Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced spiritual teacher Mohammad Ali Taheri to death for “spreading corruption on earth” for establishing the spiritual group Erfan-e Halgheh. He has been held in solitary confinement for over six years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Indigenous peoples in Chocó danger in Colombia
Clashes between paramilitary groups, the National Liberation Army and state security forces continue to violate the rights of the Wounaan and Embera Indigenous peoples in Chocó, western Colombia, generating an imminent humanitarian and security crisis.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Maldives to resume executions by September
According to statements by the Maldives President, the death penalty would be implemented 'by the end of September'. If carried out, these would be the first executions in the country in over 60 years.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action: Independent news director detained in Azerbaijan
Mehman Aliyev, the director of independent news agency Turan, has been arbitrarily detained since 24 August on what appears to be trumped up charges of tax evasion and other offenses in retaliation for his work as a critical journalist.
Urgent action outcomes 05 Sep 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Zambia opposition leader released
Leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Hakainde Hichilema and five others accused with him have been released.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Severely-ill Iranian Kurdish woman denied care
Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian, serving a life sentence, is severely ill and requires specialized medical care outside prison. However, the authorities have persistently refused to transfer her to a hospital, apparently to punish her and extract…
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action: Papuan prisoner of conscience denied parole in Indonesia
Political activist, Oktovianus Warnares was convicted of “rebellion” (makar) in 2013 after peacefully commemorating the 50th anniversary of the handover of Papua to the Indonesian government.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prison term upheld for Saudi Arabian defender
Saudi Arabian human rights defender Abdulaziz al-Shubaily was informed on 31 July that his eight-year prison sentence has been upheld by the Court of Appeal in Riyadh. He is now at risk of being imprisoned at any time to start serving his sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 30 Aug 2017