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Urgent Action update: Colombian peasant farmer communities risk displacement
Miguel Briceño, a leader of the peasant farmer community El Porvenir in central Colombia, has been threatened as attempts to forcibly displace the community intensify.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two human rights defenders on trial in Cambodia
Two Cambodian housing rights defenders have been arrested and charged with “incitement” for taking part in a peaceful protest calling for the release of five imprisoned human rights defenders. Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Jailed indigenous rights defender released
Mexican prisoner of conscience Ildefonso Zamora was released on 12 August after almost nine months in jail
Urgent action outcomes 17 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Two jailed artists serving 3-year prison terms in Iran
Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian and his filmmaker brother Hossein Rajabian began serving their three-year prison terms on 4 June.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Man released from psychiatric institution in Russia
Konstantin Zadoya was released on 3 August from a psychiatric hospital in Novosibirsk, western Siberia
Urgent action outcomes 17 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Chinese activist charged with subversion
Prominent activist Wu Gan (better known by his pen name Tufu, ‘The Butcher’) has been charged with “subverting state power” and has been detained for 15 months.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Man who did not kill set for execution in United States
Jeffery Wood is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 August. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for a murder committed during a robbery of a convenience store in 1996. He was sitting in a truck outside the store when the murder took place.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Two activists face up to 10 years' imprisonment in Thailand
Two activists were arrested on 6 August for distributing materials critical of a draft constitution. Both face up to 10 years’ imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Man who did not kill set for execution in United States
Jeffery Wood is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 August. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for a murder committed during a robbery of a convenience store in 1996. He was sitting in a truck outside the store when the murder took place.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Eight arrested in Sudan, whereabouts unknown
10 people, seven of whom are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), were arrested by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Darfur on 31 July.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: At least a thousand houses at risk of demolition in Nigeria
The Governor of Kaduna State, Nigeria has threatened to demolish houses in Gbagyi Villa, Kaduna State, North West Nigeria.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Four youth activists detained without charge in Angola
Four Angolan youth activists who are part of the Benguela Revolutionary Movement (Movimento Revolucionário de Benguela) were arrested by police on the evening of 4 August.
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action: Accused of defamation for social media posts in IndonesiaUrgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016
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Urgent Action: Evacuate 10-year-old Syrian girl in need of surgery
Ghina Ahmad Wadi, a 10-year-old girl, was shot in the leg on 2 August by a sniper at a government checkpoint in Madaya
Urgent action outcomes 12 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Sahrawi defendants granted civilian re-trial in Morocco
Twenty-three Sahrawi defendants, including 21 prisoners sentenced to jail after a grossly unfair trial by a military court in 2013, are to face re-trial before a civilian court.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Newspaper editor on bail and awaiting trial in South Sudan
Alfred Taban, prominent journalist and chief editor of the daily English newspaper, Juba Monitor, was released on bail on 29 July. No court date has been set for his trial.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Aug 2016 -
End Action: Stop action on lawyer at risk of torture in China
Lawyer Ren Quanniu, who was criminally detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, has been released on bail. Please stop sending appeals at this time.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Aug 2016 -
End Action: Return to Turkey not imminent for two Syrians in Greece
The first two Syrian refugees that became at risk of being forcibly returned to Turkey under the illegal EU-Turkey deal have now been released from detention. A court has also ordered the suspension of their deportation.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Bidun defender released in Kuwait, awaiting verdict
Bidun human rights defender ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli was released from Kuwait Central prison on 2 August after serving the remainder of a three month prison sentence for “misusing his phone”.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Aug 2016 -
Urgent Action Update: Chinese activist on hunger strike at grave risk
Jailed Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) has been on hunger strike since 9 May in protest of his ill-treatment by the authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Aug 2016