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Urgent Action: Falun Gong practitioner at risk of torture in China
Qin Wei, a Falun Gong practitioner, was taken into police custody after he distributed commentary criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 21 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Bahraini Human Rights Defender charged and detained
Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, Nabeel Rajab, was arrested on 13 June. He has been charged with “spreading false information and rumours in the aim of discrediting the State”.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Circus performer's detention renewed
On 13 June an Israeli military court renewed by a further six months the detention without charge of Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent update: Palestinian circus performer's detention renewed in Israel
On 13 June an Israeli military court renewed by a further six months the detention without charge of Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha.
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Canadian-Iranian professor detained in Tehran
Canadian-Iranian citizen Dr Homa Hoodfar, a 65-year-old professor of anthropology, was arrested on 6 June following months of questioning by the Revolutionary Guards. She is being held in Tehran’s Evin Prison with no access to her family or lawyer, and…
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Conviction upheld, prison sentence extended in BahrainUrgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016
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Urgent Action update: Judge rules in favour of Indigenous Defender
A federal judge in Mexico has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights defender Ildefonso Zamora who has been in prison since November 2015. The Attorney General should now accept that the case is baseless and refrain from appealing the ruling. This will be…
Urgent action outcomes 17 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Chinese activists detained for commemorating June 4
Nine activists have been detained for commemorations of the 27th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 15 Jun 2016 -
UA good news: Asylum law changes signed by federal president in Austria
Amendments to Austria’s asylum law were signed into law by the outgoing federal president and entered into force.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Mohammed Saleh Al-Bajadi released in Saudi Arabia
Human rights defender Mohammed Saleh al-Bajadi was released on 7 April from a rehabilitation centre where he had spent four months after being discharged from prison in November 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: ‘Extremism’ trial held behind closed doors in Tajikistan
The trial of Buzurgmekhr Yorov, a lawyer representing members of the banned Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), began in May.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Activists face jail for planning rally in Kazakhstan
Three men remain in detention and now face criminal charges for planning peaceful demonstrations in Kazakhstan. They are prisoners of conscience detained solely for exercising their rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defenders' detention renewed
Cairo judges ordered on 5 June the renewed detention of two human rights defenders, Dr Ahmed Abdullah and Mina Thabet. Both are prisoners of conscience, detained solely for their human rights work with the Egyptian Commission for Rights and Freedoms.
Urgent action outcomes 10 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Waleed Abu al-Khair starts hunger strike in Saudi Arabia
Imprisoned human rights defender and lawyer, Waleed Abu al-Khair, began a hunger strike on 7 June to protest the prison authorities’ refusal to provide him with adequate medical care and because of his ongoing ill-treatment.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Elderly Brtish-Iranian prisoner in need of medical care in Iran
A 76-year-old British-Iranian businessman, Kamal Foroughi, is serving an eight-year prison term on charges including espionage
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jun 2016 -
Update: Health of British-Iranian prisoner in Iran remains at risk
Kamal Foroughi, a 76-year-old British-Iranian serving an eight-year prison term in Tehran’s Evin Prison, was taken to hospital and received a number of medical tests in November 2015.
Urgent action outcomes 09 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Sick Iranian blogger being forced to return to prison
Blogger and pioneering anti-censorship activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was released on temporary medical leave on 4 May.
Urgent action outcomes 08 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Belarus issues third death sentence in 2016
Siarhei Vostrykau was sentenced to death by the Homel Regional Court on 19 May. He is the third person to be sentenced to death in Belarus this year.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Angolan human rights defender freed, lawyer risks jail
The Angolan Supreme Tribunal acquitted human rights defender José Marcos Mavungo on 19 May and he was released the following day.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016 -
Urgent Action: Syrian refugees at risk of return from Greek island to Turkey
Two Syrian refugees are the first at risk of being forcibly returned to Turkey under the illegal EU-Turkey deal, after their asylum applications were dismissed by the Greek authorities.
Urgent action outcomes 07 Jun 2016