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Urgent Action update: More Uighur students in Egypt at risk of forcible return to China
Another 10 Uighur students were forcibly returned by the Egyptian authorities back to China, bringing the total to 22 in July, while approximately 200 more remain at risk of being forcibly returned to the country.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: All 28 men suspected of being gay released in Bangladesh
The five remaining men still being held on bail, of the 28 who were arrested at a social event outside of Dhaka, were released on 21 July 2017.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist facing imminent deportation in Russia
On 1 August, the Moscow Basmanniy Court ruled that journalist and LGBTI activist Khudoberdi Nurmatov (also known as Ali Feruz) must be forcibly returned from Russia to Uzbekistan.
Urgent action outcomes 02 Aug 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Professor released after 42 days of abduction in Libya
University professor Dr Salem Mohamed Beitelmal was released on 6 June. He had been abducted by local militias on the outskirts of Tripoli since 20 April. He has now returned home and joined his family.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Bahraini activist risks 7 years in jail for retweets
Bahraini activist Yaser Mawali has been on trial before the Lower Court in Manama, the capital, since 7 June charged with “insulting the King” for two posts he had retweeted. He has been detained since 29 May and his next hearing is scheduled for 16…
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Female activist sentenced to nine years in prison in Vietnam
Labour and land rights activist Trần Thị Nga was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment on 25 July 2017 for “conducting propaganda” against the state under Article 88 of the Penal Code.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists arrested for Tiananmen commemoration in China
Two activists, Ding Yajun and Shi Tingfu, have been formally charged with “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” for commemorating the 28th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained journalist faints in overheated prison in Azerbaijan
Independent Azerbaijani journalist Aziz Orujov has been held in detention on fabricated charges since 2 May. He is being kept in inhumane conditions. On 23 July he fainted as a result of the sweltering heat in the prison cell.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Death sentence upheld on appeal for 15 men in Saudi Arabia
The families of 15 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death learned on 23 July that the Court of Appeal had upheld their sentences. The 15 men are accused of spying for Iran and were sentenced after a grossly unfair mass trial.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: First Ohio execution in three and a half years
Ronald Phillips was executed in Ohio on the morning of 26 July for a murder committed in 1993 when he was 19 years old. This was the first execution in Ohio since January 2014.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Israeli civilians abducted for more than 2 years
Avera Mangistu and Hisham al-Sayed have been missing respectively since 7 September 2014 and 20 April 2015 in the Gaza Strip. The two Israeli civilians suffer from serious mental health conditions.
Urgent action outcomes 31 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: 14 Saudi Arabian men could face execution
The families of 14 Saudi Arabian men sentenced to death fear that they are at risk of execution after they were transferred to Riyadh on 15 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: 14 Saudi Arabian men at imminent risk of execution
Fourteen Saudi Arabian men are at imminent risk of execution after their families learned on 23 July that the Supreme Court has ratified their death sentences.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Bahraini human rights defender charged
Bahraini human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was charged on 18 July by the Terrorism Crime Prosecution with using her human rights work as a cover to provide Alkarama Foundation with information and fake news about the situation in Bahrain.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activists deported from Saudi Arabia detained in Sudan
Activists Elgassim Mohamed Seed Ahmed, Elwaleed Imam Hassan Taha and Alaa Aldin al-Difana were deported from Saudi Arabia to Sudan on 11 July.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender facing intimidation in Nigeria
Human rights defender Maurice Fangnon was detained at the Nigerian Police Force Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Department in Abuja accused of providing police with false information that a member of a powerful royal family was responsible for…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Multiple concerns as Missouri execution set
Marcellus Williams, aged 48, is due to be executed in Missouri on 22 August for a 1998 murder. He maintains his innocence of the crime. An African American, he was tried before an almost all-white jury.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Imprisoned journalist must be released in Ukraine
Stanislav Aseev, a freelance journalist, who was missing for several weeks, is held by the Russia-backed separatists from the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (“DNR”) in eastern Ukraine. They accuse him of “espionage”.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action: Maldives to resume executions after over 60 years
Sources close to the government of Maldives have confirmed that executions in the country will resume on 21 July 2017. The Maldives Supreme Court has upheld the convictions and death sentences of three men, who are all now at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Several men arbitrarily held in poor conditions in South Sudan
George Livio Bahara, one of the men arbitrarily detained at a prison at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in Juba, was released on 25 May. Mike Tyson, another detainee, died on 29 June at the NSS prison.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Jul 2017