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Urgent Action update: Iranian human rights defender on hunger strike
Iranian human rights defender Atena Daemi has been on hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since 8 April. She is protesting the suspended prison sentences imposed on two of her sisters, Hanieh and Ensieh, for “insulting public officers on duty”.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Court blocks execution and remands for hearing in USA
The Arkansas Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for Stacey Johnson, who was due to be put to death in Arkansas on 20 April for a murder committed in 1993.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Stay of execution for Bruce Ward in Arkansas
Bruce Ward, who was due to be put to death on 17 April in Arkansas, received a stay of execution. His lawyers maintain that his mental disability deprives him of a rational understanding of his punishment, rendering his execution unconstitutional.
Urgent action outcomes 24 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Newspaper threatened for reports on abductions in Russia
The staff of Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta and journalists supporting them have been threatened following the newspaper’s publication of reports about the abduction and torture of gay men in Chechnya.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: University lecturer in Uganda must be released
Dr Stella Nyanzi, a Ugandan university lecturer, was arrested on 7 April and subsequently charged with insulting the president and violating his right to privacy.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Three Chadian activists held incommunicado
Three Chadian activists have been arrested by agents of the National Security Agency in N’Djamena. Nadjo Kaina Palmer, Bertrand Sollo and Dingamnayal Nely Versinis are being held in secret and incommunicado. They are prisoners of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Continued paramilitary presence in Chocó, Colombia
Residents of Puerto Lleras, Jiguamiandó collective territory in the department of Chocó, report threats and raids from paramilitaries near the Humanitarian Zone of Pueblo Nuevo, putting all the inhabitants at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained opposition leader accused of treason in Zambia
Leader of the United Party for National Development (UPND), Mr Hakainde Hichilema was arrested on 10 April.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience held incommunicado in Venezuela
Venezuelan prisoner of conscience, Leopoldo López, has been kept incommunicado since 8 April. He has been placed in solitary confinement for reasons that have not been disclosed by the authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Stay of execution for Don Davis in Arkansas
The execution of Don Davis, scheduled for 17 April in Arkansas, did not go ahead. Minutes before midnight, when the death warrant was set to expire, the US Supreme Court refused to lift the stay issued by the Arkansas Supreme Court that afternoon.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Bahrain's opposition leader's sentence reduced againOn 3 April, the Court of Cassation in Bahrain reduced the prison sentence against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman to four years in prison for the second time. He is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 18 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defenders' lives in danger in Haiti
Human rights defenders David Boniface and Juders Ysemé fear for their lives following the sudden death of their colleague, Nissage Martyr, one day after service of a lawsuit filed by the three men in the US for grave human rights violations against Jean…
Urgent action outcomes 18 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Opposition activists arbitrarily held in Sudan
Three political opposition activists are being held in prolonged detention without charge following their arrests in Khartoum by the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) between January and February 2017. They are being detained…
Urgent action outcomes 18 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Hundreds of Roma forcibly evicted in Italy
Hundreds of Roma living in the settlement of Gianturco were forcibly evicted on 7 April. Dozens of families had already left the settlement due to intensified police checks and harassment and many are feared homeless.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained human rights lawyer location unknown in ChinaXie Yang, a human rights lawyer detained since the government crackdown in 2015, has been transferred to an unknown location and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He is a prisoner of conscience and should be immediately and unconditionally…
Urgent action outcomes 12 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Journalist may lose son after covering protests in Belarus
The Belarusian authorities are threatening to take journalist Larysa Schiryakova’s 10-year-old son away from her. This threat follows her critical reporting of events in the country including the ongoing crackdown against peaceful protesters.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action good news: Texas appeal court blocks execution in USA
On 7 April, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued a stay of execution in the case of Paul Storey, who was scheduled to be put to death on 12 April. The case has been remanded to a lower court for further review of the claim that the prosecution…
Urgent action outcomes 11 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Student detained for possession of 'banned' books in Malaysia
Research student Siti Noor Aishah has been placed under ‘preventive detention’ for alleged possession of 12 books deemed ‘illegal’ by the Malaysian government.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defenders of water at risk in Chile
Members of the Defence Movement of Earth, Environmental Protection and Access to Water are facing death threats because of their work defending the right to water in Petorca Province, central Chile.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2017 -
Urgent Action: Imprisoned Iranian journalist on hunger strike
Iranian journalist Hengameh Shahidi is in a critical condition in Tehran’s Evin prison. She has been on hunger strike for 29 days in protest at her arrest on 9 March. She has a heart condition and is refusing her medication. She is being held in solitary…
Urgent action outcomes 10 Apr 2017
