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Urgent Action update: Human rights defender signs plea bargain in Israel/OPTHuman rights defender and former prisoner of conscience Anas Barghouti has agreed to a plea bargain to avoid prison.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update correction: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience on trial faces new charges in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab remains on trial for comments posted on Twitter. The verdict pursuant to his trial has been repeatedly postponed since October 2016. He also faces a new trial on separate charges related to TV interviews he gave. He…
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Refugee granted bail but still faces charges in Papua New Guinea
Loghman Sawari, an Iranian refugee, was granted bail on 14 February but continues to face criminal charges for using false information to obtain a passport after he flew to Fiji on around 24 January 2017 and attempted to claim asylum there.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Falun Gong practitioner faces imprisonment in China
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Huixia has been indicted for “using an evil cult to undermine law enforcement” and is facing three years to life imprisonment. Her family have been unable to visit her since 3 June 2016, the date she was first detained.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Necessary medical treatment denied to prisoner in Vietnam
Prisoner of conscience Đinh Nguyên Kha is being denied medical treatment following an operation to remove a tumour from his stomach three months ago, which could amount to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Unwell Palestinian in administrative detention in Israel/OPT
Palestinian Muhammed al-Qiq has been on hunger strike since 6 February in protest against his administrative detention.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Activist back in detention in Bahrain
Bahraini activist Nader Abdulemam was arrested on 18 February and taken to Jaw prison to serve the remaining four and a half months of a prison sentence handed down to him for participating in and calling on people to join an illegal march in Manama in…
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Economist's next trial on 22 February in UAE
The trial of Dr Nasser bin Ghaith before the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began anew on 18 January. His next hearing is scheduled for 22 February.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: UK-Iranian charity worker needs medical care in Iran
British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Sentenced to death based on 'confessions' in Iraq
Brothers Mahmoud Tale’ Nayef and Taleb Tale’ Nayef were sentenced to death by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 9 August 2016 based on “confessions” extracted under torture. Taleb Tale’ Nayef remains at risk of further torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 22 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Growing health fears for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Denied proper medical treatment by prison authorities since April 2015, when she was first diagnosed with a tumour on her uterus, Trần Thị Thúy is no longer able to walk without assistance.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Hundreds of peaceful marches attacked by police in Vietnam
Around 700 men, women and children were attacked by police while on the way to submit legal complaints against Formosa Plastics, with damages amounting to US$20 million.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activists could be charged for exposing torture in Thailand
A decision by the Public Prosecutor on whether to prosecute three human rights defenders on criminal defamation and compu
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Indigenous community at risk due to threats in Peru
More than 60 heavily armed individuals entered Asháninka Meantari Indigenous community territory in the Central Peruvian rainforest and forced out 21 families by subjecting them to death threats.
Urgent action outcomes 20 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Paramilitary incursion in Humanitarian Zone in Colombia
A group of paramilitaries entered the Humanitarian Zone of Nueva Esperanza en Dios in the Cacarica river basin in north-west Colombia looking for several individuals which they claimed were on a death list.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Journalist charged for facebook post in the UAE
Jordanian poet and journalist Tayseer Salman al-Najjar appeared before the Criminal Chamber of the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi on 18 January, and again on 1 February, facing charges of “damaging the reputation and prestige of the Emirati state”, in…
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action: Palestinian boy's administrative order renewed in Israel/OPT
17-year-old Palestinian Ahmad Azmi Abdurrahman Hanatsheh was arrested by Israeli forces on 1 August 2016. He was initially placed under a six month administrative detention order, which was renewed by a further two months on 31 January.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Still no information on hundreds of missing Rohingya
Four months after the launch of major security operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of detained Rohingya are still unknown.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Prisoner in solitary confinement for months in Morocco
Ali Aarrass has been held in prolonged solitary confinement since his transfer to Tifelt II Local Prison on 10 October 2016. His health has sharply deteriorated as a result.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Feb 2017
