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Urgent Action: Danish Jehovah’s witness jailed for his faith
Danish Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen found guilty of “organizing activities of an extremist organisation".
Urgent action outcomes 18 Feb 2019 -
Egypt: 'Cruel' denial of family visits to detainees must endPress release 15 Feb 2019
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Saudi Arabia: European countries must step up defence of women's rights activistsHuman rights defenders detained and tortured since May last year.
Press release 14 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Over two thousand people risk forced eviction
The Deep Sea Community in Nairobi, Kenya is once again at imminent risk of forced evictions.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action : Poet held over poem calling for government reform
Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet in Somaliland, has been in detention since 12 January.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Feb 2019 -
Australia: Reopening of detention camp a 'cruel and unnecessary political stunt'Refugees are not ‘pawns to be used to score political points’ - Dr Graham Thom
Press release 13 Feb 2019 -
Egypt: 'Alarming escalation' in executions as six people killed in just two weeksAuthorities have hanged three prisoners convicted of killing a police officer during clashes that erupted in the weeks following the deadly Rabaa massacre
Press release 13 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Detained online activist alleges torture in prison
Soro Tangboho alias Carton noir, an outspoken online activist, was arbitrarily arrested on 8 November 2018.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2019 -
Philippines: Rappler CEO arrested 'on a trumped-up libel charge'Maria Ressa, chief executive of news website, was arrested earlier today.
Press release 13 Feb 2019 -
Indonesia: Instagram has 'failed to be an ally' to LGBTI people by closing account“This account did not publish pornography, as the government claims."
Press release 13 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist denied family visits
Journalist Amade Abubacar was transferred from the Macomia district prison to Mieze prison in Pemba district.
Urgent action outcomes 13 Feb 2019 -
Nigeria: Shell in court to face complicity charges in execution of Ogoni Nine protestersWidows of the killed protesters are demanding compensation and a public apology
Press release 12 Feb 2019 -
Thailand: 'Victory for people power' as refugee footballer will not be extraditedPress release 11 Feb 2019
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Myanmar: Fresh evidence of new violations during military operations in Rakhine StatePress release 11 Feb 2019
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Urgent Action: Forty-seven students held incommunicado, one killed
Forty-seven students of Darfur origin remain in incommunicado detention after security agents arrested them in raids.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: TV producer held in North Korea for 50 years
Former TV producer from South Korea not allowed to return to his home country after arriving involuntarily to North Korea
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action outcome: Sentenced to one year in prison for posting Facebook video
Agustinus Yolemal, a Papuan pro-independence activist was sentenced to 1 year’s imprisonment.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Urgent Action: Labour rights activists at risk of further torture
Iranian labour rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian are at grave risk of further torture.
Urgent action outcomes 11 Feb 2019 -
Zimbabwe: ‘most brutal tactics imaginable’ used by authorities to crush fuel-hike protests - new reportPress release 09 Feb 2019 -
Iran: guards use firearms and tear gas in raid against protest in women’s prisonReports that prisoners needed hospital treatment as a result of tear gas
Press release 08 Feb 2019
