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Urgent Action: Disclose whereabouts of UK-Bangladeshi man
The fate and whereabouts of UK-Bangladeshi national Yasin Talukder remain unknown five months after his enforced disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Demand relase of Cuban graffiti artist in Cuba
Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’) has been transferred to another new detention centre where he continues to be detained without charge since his arrest on 26 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA: Two Lucha youth activists missing in The Democratic Republic of Congo
Youth activists Gloria Senga and Musasa Tshibanda went missing on the evening of 16 December after they met with another youth activist in Kinshasa.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Youth arrested at 15 re-sentenced to death in Iran
Salar Shadizadi was sentenced to death again in November after a retrial in Iran. He has been on death row since 2007 for a crime committed when he was 15.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Released on medical grounds but still on trial in Bahrain
Bahraini women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer was released from prison on 12 December on medical grounds. The court has ordered to serve the remaining four months of her combined 10 month sentence as a community service.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's assets frozen in Egypt
An Egyptian court has summarily frozen the assets of human rights defender Azza Soliman and may freeze the assets of three others.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalists need urgent medical care in Yemen
Journalist Abdelkhaleq Amran is in urgent need of medical attention after being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to his family. Nine other journalists arbitrarily detained with him also require medical attention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Still no access to aid for 130,000 in North Rakhine, Myanmar
At least 130,000 people are still being denied access to life-saving humanitarian services, more than two months after the Myanmar authorities began major security operations in northern Rakhine State.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Defender's administrative detention extended in Israel/OPT
On 7 December the Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian human rights defender Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi for an additional six months.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Urge the president to decriminalize abortion in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Congress adopted a comprehensive reform of the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Journalist at risk of further jail time in Uzbekistan
Journalist Muhammad Bekzhanov, aged 62, who is scheduled to be released in January after spending more than 17 years in prison on politically motivated charges, has been put in a punishment cell.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jail sentence against opposition leader upheld in Bahrain
On 12 December the Appeal Court in Bahrain issued its verdict against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and sentenced him again to nine years in prison after a retrial.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Fate of two detained UNMISS staff unknown in South Sudan
Anthony Nyero and James Lual, staff members of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), may have been subjected to enforced disappearance by South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS).
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Teacher union activist must be released in Iran
Iranian teacher union activist Esmail Abdi, the Secretary General of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), was arrested on 9 November and taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison to begin serving a six-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
UA update: End Administrative detention of circus performer in Israel/OPT
On 11 December the Israeli military renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha for another six months.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Human rights defender faces 11 years in prison in Saudi Arabia
On 1 December, human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s prison sentence was increased by two years on appeal, bringing his total prison sentence to 11 years. If detained he will be a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's trial postponed in Israel/OPT
A hearing on 6 December should have been the last opportunity for the Israeli military prosecution to produce the witnesses in the case against Palestinian lawyer – and former prisoner of conscience – Anas Barghouti.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested in Iran
Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Health concern for prisoner of conscience in Myanmar
Aung Win Hlaing, a member of the National Democratic Force party in Myanmar, has been sentenced to nine months in prison for a Facebook post critical of the President.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: One year in prison for denouncing corruption in Algeria
An Algerian court sentenced journalist Hassan Bouras to a year in prison and fines for a video denouncing corruption of local officials in the city of El Bayadh. He is a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016