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Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado since 2 September in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights activist Salim al-Maliki has been arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado for four weeks.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Homa Hoodfar freed in Iran after global campaign
Canadian-Irish-Iranian citizen Dr Homa Hoodfar, a prominent professor of anthropology, was released on 26 September and flown out of Iran to Oman.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action: Person with mental disability faces execution in Pakistan
Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. He was convicted of the murder of a religious teacher in 2002.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Six men face death sentence after unfair trial in Egypt
Egypt’s defence minister has ratified the death sentences of six civilian men tried by a military court in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Oct 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed musician and filmaker on hunger strike in Iran
Iranian brothers Mehdi Rajabian and Hossein Rajabian began a hunger strike on 8 September in protest at the authorities’ refusal to allow them medical leave, as well as the decision to separate the brothers into different sections of Tehran’s Evin Prison.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Political activist escaped abduction attempt in Indonesia
On 24 September, men in plain clothes attempted to abduct Papuan political activist Agustinus Aud at his home in Sorong, West Papua Province.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Defender combatting statelessness attacked in Dominican Republic
Around 8.30pm on 25 September, Dominican human rights defender Genaro Rincon was verbally and physically assaulted in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Falun Gong practitioner said to have been tortured in China
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Huixia was unable to stand or walk after being tortured, according to a fellow detainee. Suffering from chronic illness and poor health, she currently has no access to her family or a lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Azamn journalists sentenced to prison in Oman
An Omani court of first instance issued its verdict on 26 September against three journalists from the daily Azamn newspaper. Two of the journalists received three-year prison sentences and the third a one-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 28 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Killings continue under President Duterte in Philippines
Approximately 3000 people have been killed by police and unknown vigilantes in the Philippines since President Duterte came into power on 30 June.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Refuge for migrants under attack in Mexico
A soup kitchen for Mexican and Central American migrants has been vandalized in the northern Mexican city of Nogales, on the US border.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Kashmiri human rights defender arbitrarily detained in India
Khurram Parvez, a prominent Kashmiri human rights defender, has been placed in administrative detention a day after a court ordered his release on 20 September.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Thirteen men at risk of Execution in Japan
Thirteen members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult are now at risk of execution in Japan, following the conclusion of the trials of other cult members.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Burundian journalist is still missing
Burundian journalist, Jean Bigirimana, is still missing, two months after he was reported to have been arrested by security forces outside the capital, Bujumbura.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Egyptian human rights defenders’ assets frozen
An Egyptian court has upheld an asset freeze against five human rights defenders and three NGOs.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Cambodian housing rights defender released
Two Cambodian housing rights defenders were tried and convicted on 22 August for “insult of a public official”.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Family attacked by mining company personnel in Peru
Máxima Acuña and her family, subsistence farmers in northern Peru, have reported acts of harassment and physical attacks against them by security personnel from the Yanacocha mining company.
Urgent action outcomes 27 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Jailed IT expert denied access to medical care in Iran
The trial of Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese national and permanent US resident held in detention in Tehran’s Evin Prison since September 2015, has concluded after two brief sessions before Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. His health is…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Health concern for Canadian-Iranian professor in Iran
The health of Canadian-Irish-Iranian citizen Homa Hoodfar, a 65-year-old prominent professor of anthropology, has deteriorated. Held in solitary confinement since 6 June, she has been denied access to specialized medical care for a neurological condition.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Sep 2016 -
Urgent Action: Defender in Indonesia under investigation for defamation
I Wayan Suardana, a prominent human rights defender in Bali, is facing a defamation suit for posting mocking statements on his Twitter account against supporters of a large-scale land reclamation project in Benoa Bay, in southern Bali by a commercial…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Sep 2016