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Urgent Action: Activist's bail revoked for commenting on Facebook in Thailand
Activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa may face up to 15 years’ imprisonment for posting a news article online.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action: Detained 70-year old professor's health at risk in Pakistan
70-year-old retired professor Dr Zafar Arif was arrested on 22 October and remains without access to a lawyer or medical care. He is a heart patient and there are grave concerns for his health.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Urgent Action update: Activist arrested for 'leaking state secrets' in China
Huang Qi, founder of Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), who has not been heard from since he was taken away on 28 November, has been formally arrested for “leaking state secrets”. He still does not have access to a lawyer.
Urgent action outcomes 04 Jan 2017 -
Mosul, Iraq: injured and traumatised children caught up in a gathering 'humanitarian crisis'Press release 22 Dec 2016
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33 Reasons to be positive about 2016Blog post 22 Dec 2016
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Iran: British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe pressured to 'jail or give up' daughterPress release 22 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action: NGO founder on hunger strike after conviction in Tunisia
Former prison officer and NGO founder Walid Zarrouk is on hunger strike in protest against his 24 November prison sentences for "insulting public officials".
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's assets frozen in Egypt
An Egyptian court has summarily frozen the assets of human rights defender Azza Soliman and may freeze the assets of three others.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Cluster munitions in Yemen: UK should halt all arms sales to Saudi ArabiaPress release 19 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action: Torture fears for missing website founder in China
Huang Qi, founder of Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), was taken from his home in Chengdu, Sichuan Province by 15 public security officers on 28 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Aleppo: UN Security Council resolution long overduePress release 19 Dec 2016
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UA update: Still no access to aid for 130,000 in North Rakhine, Myanmar
At least 130,000 people are still being denied access to life-saving humanitarian services, more than two months after the Myanmar authorities began major security operations in northern Rakhine State.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Demand relase of Cuban graffiti artist in Cuba
Cuban graffiti artist Danilo Maldonado Machado (‘El Sexto’) has been transferred to another new detention centre where he continues to be detained without charge since his arrest on 26 November.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Defender's administrative detention extended in Israel/OPT
On 7 December the Israeli authorities renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian human rights defender Hasan Ghassan Ghaleb Safadi for an additional six months.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Disclose whereabouts of UK-Bangladeshi man
The fate and whereabouts of UK-Bangladeshi national Yasin Talukder remain unknown five months after his enforced disappearance.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Detained journalists need urgent medical care in Yemen
Journalist Abdelkhaleq Amran is in urgent need of medical attention after being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to his family. Nine other journalists arbitrarily detained with him also require medical attention.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Youth arrested at 15 re-sentenced to death in Iran
Salar Shadizadi was sentenced to death again in November after a retrial in Iran. He has been on death row since 2007 for a crime committed when he was 15.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
UA update: Urge the president to decriminalize abortion in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Congress adopted a comprehensive reform of the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Journalist at risk of further jail time in Uzbekistan
Journalist Muhammad Bekzhanov, aged 62, who is scheduled to be released in January after spending more than 17 years in prison on politically motivated charges, has been put in a punishment cell.
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016