All resources
Whether you're looking for something specific or just exploring, this space brings together resources from across the Knowledge Hub.
Search, filter and browse to find the resources you need.
Showing 2102 pages
Clear all filters-
Urgent Action: Iranian teenager's execution still pending
Iranian teenager Alireza Tajiki is at continued risk of execution. The authorities did not carry out his scheduled execution on 15 May after a global outcry. However, they have not committed to not rescheduling the execution.
Urgent action outcomes 19 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Iranian teenager's execution still pending
Iranian teenager Alireza Tajiki is at continued risk of execution. The authorities did not carry out his scheduled execution on 15 May after a global outcry. However, they have not committed to not rescheduling the execution.
Urgent action outcomes 19 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Shwkan's trial adjourned until 17 May in Egypt
Egyptian authorities adjourned until 17 May the trial of photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, popularly known as Shawkan. He is facing trumped-up charges as a result of his journalistic work.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Youth activists detained in Azerbaijan, speak of ill-treatment
Youth activists Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov were arrested on 10 May in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Update: Russian government critic's convicted upheld
Yekaterina Vologzheninova’s appeal was rejected on 26 April and she must serve 320 hours of “corrective labour”.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Iranian physicist needs ongoing cancer care
Iranian physicist and prisoner of conscience Omid Kokabee had surgery on 22 April to remove his right kidney. He has been diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer following five years of medical neglect in prison.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Update: Egyptian human rights defender detained
Lawyer and human rights defender Malek Adly was arrested and ill-treated by Egyptian security forces on 5 May
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Provide adequate medical care to jailed Russian lawyer
A lawyer sentenced to eight and a half years’ imprisonment for alleged extortion and damage to property after a possibly unfair trial is in urgent need of specialized medical care.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Activist released from psychiatric hospital in Russia
Activist Dmitry Vorobyovsky, who had been taken to a psychiatric hospital on 6 May and subjected to involuntary psychiatric treatment, was released following a court order on 12 May.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Update: Kho Jabing's execution date set for 20 May in Singapore
The execution of Kho Jabing has been set for 20 May
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Journalist arrested for facebook post in UAE
Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer al-Najjar, was arrested on 13 December 2015 in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in connection with a comment he posted on his Facebook account in 2014.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Update: 33 men still arbitrarily detained and one ailing in South Sudan
33 men are still in arbitrary detention at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in the capital of South Sudan.
Urgent action outcomes 18 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Ahmed Abdullah's detention order renewed in Egypt
Prisoner of conscience and human rights defender, Dr Ahmed Abdullah, had his detention renewed for a further 15 days on 7 May. He has been detained since 25 April solely for peacefully exercising his right to freedom of expression.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Appeal Date Set for a nine-month jail sentence in Malaysia
Veteran activist, film maker and former political prisoner, Hishamuddin Rais, faces up to nine months in prison under the Sedition Act in Malaysia for his peaceful calls for electoral reform. The final appeal date has been set for 16 May.
Urgent action outcomes 17 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Human rights defender threatened in Venezuela
Venezuelan human rights defender Humberto Prado Sifontes has been threatened for his work examining prisons. Humberto, his family and his colleagues from the NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones) are at risk.
Urgent action outcomes 11 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Environmental defender must be released in Mexico
Ildefonso Zamora, an environment and territory defender from an Indigenous community in central Mexico, has been detained since November 2015 in an apparent attempt to stop him from speaking out against logging in the Great Water Forest in his ancestral…
Urgent action outcomes 11 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Activist in Iran sentenced to two decades in jail
Iranian activist Amir Amirgholi was sentenced in early 2016 to 19 years and six months in prison following an hour-long trial on charges that stem from his peaceful activism.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Urgent Action good news: Bahraini photographer released
Photographer and prisoner of conscience Ahmad Fardan has been released after completing his three-month prison sentence on 18 April.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Stop Bangladeshi political leader's imminent execution
The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal against its ruling, upholding the death sentence against Motiur Rahman Nizami, the leader of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016 -
Urgent Action: Omani writer arrested and still detained
Omani writer, journalist and human rights activist Sulaiman al-Ma’mari has been detained since 28 April. He has been denied any access to his family or lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 10 May 2016