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Urgent Action: Yemeni academic held incommunicado for 57 days
Professor and political figure Mustafa al-Mutawakel has been held incommunicado by the internationally recognized Yemeni government forces in an unknown location for almost two months.
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Urge congress to decriminalize abortion in the Dominican Republic
In May 2017, the Dominican Senate voted to reject the President’s recommendations to decriminalize abortion. The President’s recommendations are now being discussed by the Justice Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, which is expected to vote on the…
Urgent action outcomes 26 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Defender at risk of continued detention in Egypt
The South Banha prosecutor renewed on 18 June the detention for human rights defender Hanan Badr el-Din for 15 more days.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Minority rights journalist attacked and injured in Pakistan
Pakistani minority rights journalist Rana Tanweer faced an assassination attempt on 9 June. He was attacked in a hit and run accident and fractured his leg. Days before, his home was vandalised and he was threatened for his writing. The authorities have…
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Opposition leader held in inhumane conditions in Zambia
There is fear for safety of Hakainde Hichilema after he was transferred from Lusaka Central Correctional Facility in Lusaka Province to Mukobeko Maximum Correctional Facility in Central Province.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Opposition politician facing trumped up charges in Maldives
Opposition politician Adam Azim has been arrested and is facing trumped up charges in Maldives after criticizing the government in a TV interview. He is currently being held at a prison on Dhoonidhoo Island.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Exiled Lesotho journalist receiving death threats online
Exiled investigative journalist Keiso Mohloboli has been receiving death threats and intimidation online after publishing a Facebook post. Keiso
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Chinese lawyer arrested for "subversion"
Jiang Tianyong, human rights lawyer detained under “residential surveillance in a designated location” for over six months, has been formally arrested for “subverting state power”.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Health fears for imprisoned Canadian pastor in North Korea
Lim Hyeon-soo, sentenced to life in prison in hard labour in North Korea, has developed a host of health problems including malnutrition, high blood pressure, arthritis, and stomach problems as a side effect of medicine that was not properly administered.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: 23 men granted bail but fear for safety remains in Bangladesh
Twenty-three of the 28 men arrested at a social event outside of Dhaka on 19 May have been granted bail. Though initially apparently held on suspicion of breaching the prohibition of ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’ in the Penal Code, the…
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Opposition politician released in MaldivesOpposition politician Adam Azim has been released after spending nearly a week in detention in Maldives. He was arrested and faced trumped up charges after criticizing the government in a TV interview.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Circus performer detained for 554 days in Israel
On 12 June, Ofer Military Court, in the occupied West Bank near Ramallah, renewed the administrative detention order of Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha for three months.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Hungary President approves law targeting NGOs
President Janos Ader has signed a law targeting Hungarian NGOs which receive funding from abroad, on the grounds that they may represent “foreign interests".
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Sentence confirmed on Saudi Arabian writer
Saudi Arabian writer Nazeer al-Majed was informed on 15 May that the Court of Appeal of the Specialized Criminal Court (SCC) in Riyadh has upheld his seven-year prison sentence. Nazeer al-Majed has been detained since 18 January solely for having…
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Draft law targetting NGOs in Hungary must be stopped
A draft law targeting Hungarian NGOs receiving funding from abroad on the grounds that they may represent “foreign interests” was passed in the National Assembly on 13 June.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action Update: Palestinian activist in administrative detention
The Israeli district court in Jerusalem renewed Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi's administrative detention for six months on 11 June.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Palestinian university professor in detention
An Israeli military judge confirmed a three-month administrative detention order against Ahmad Qatamesh on 13 June. The Palestinian academic was arbitrarily detained under an administrative order issued on 17 May.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: University students arrested in India after protest
Eight university students and three members of a political party’s student wing in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh have been in detention since 7 June.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Natalya Sharina victim of travesty of justice in Russian Federation
On 5 June, Natalya Sharina, ex-Director of the Ukrainian Library in Moscow, was found guilty of “incitement of hatred and enmity” and “embezzlement” and given four years suspended sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jun 2017 -
Urgent Action: Syrian Kurdish activists arbitrarily detained
Syrian Kurdish opposition activists Mohsen Taher, Amin Hussam and Bashar Amin have been arrested by the Asayish, the police force of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)-led Autonomous Administration, in the north-eastern region of Syria.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Jun 2017
