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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: 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 -
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 -
Urgent Action update: Allow jailed mother visits from her daughter in Iran
Iranian Revolutionary Guard officials have pressured British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, a prisoner of conscience, to choose between moving her two-year-old daughter into prison with her for up to three days a week or sign a…
Urgent action outcomes 19 Dec 2016 -
Crimea: 'ruthless' Russian authorities have crushed opposition to annexation - new reportPress release 15 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action update: Jail sentence against opposition leader upheld in Bahrain
On 12 December the Appeal Court in Bahrain issued its verdict against opposition leader Sheikh Ali Salman and sentenced him again to nine years in prison after a retrial.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender's trial postponed in Israel/OPT
A hearing on 6 December should have been the last opportunity for the Israeli military prosecution to produce the witnesses in the case against Palestinian lawyer – and former prisoner of conscience – Anas Barghouti.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action: Fate of two detained UNMISS staff unknown in South Sudan
Anthony Nyero and James Lual, staff members of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), may have been subjected to enforced disappearance by South Sudan’s National Security Service (NSS).
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
UA update: End Administrative detention of circus performer in Israel/OPT
On 11 December the Israeli military renewed the administrative detention of Palestinian circus performer Mohammad Faisal Abu Sakha for another six months.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Aleppo: United Nations monitors must be allowed inPress release 14 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action update: Anti-death penalty activist violently arrested in Iran
Iranian human rights defender and anti-death penalty campaigner Atena Daemi was violently arrested on 26 November and taken to Evin Prison to begin serving a seven-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Philippines: Duterte giving police a 'licence to kill' with 5,000 executed since JulyPress release 14 Dec 2016
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UA update: Human rights defender faces 11 years in prison in Saudi Arabia
On 1 December, human rights defender Issa al-Hamid’s prison sentence was increased by two years on appeal, bringing his total prison sentence to 11 years. If detained he will be a prisoner of conscience.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Urgent Action update: Teacher union activist must be released in Iran
Iranian teacher union activist Esmail Abdi, the Secretary General of the Iranian Teachers’ Trade Association (ITTA), was arrested on 9 November and taken to Tehran’s Evin Prison to begin serving a six-year prison sentence.
Urgent action outcomes 14 Dec 2016 -
Ethiopia: Social media and news websites blocked by government to prevent protestsPress release 13 Dec 2016
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Aleppo: reports of execution-style killings point to war crimesPress release 13 Dec 2016
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Living in colour: life as a humanitarian nurse and campaigner for refugeesBlog post 13 Dec 2016
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Urgent Action: Independent journalist tortured, facing jail in Turkmenistan
Journalist Khudayberdy Allashov was detained on 3 December, together with his wife and mother, in Turkmenistan. He is accused of possessing chewing tobacco, which is a criminal offence, and faces up to seven years in prison if convicted. His mother also…
Urgent action outcomes 12 Dec 2016 -
Peng Ming, Life and Death of a Political Prisoner in ChinaBlog post 12 Dec 2016