Alfredo Okenve, an Equatorial Guinea human rights defender was brutally attacked on 27 October by unknown armed men.

Julián Carrillo was shot death on 24 October after death threats for defending the territory of his indigenous community.

On 25 October 2018, Amnesty India endured a ten-hour-long raid as a group of officers locked them in.

Egypt's Court of Cassation upheld death sentence of Sheikh Abdel Rehim Abdel Halim Gabreel – an 80-year-old Quran tutor.

On 31 October the two men were confirmed to being held at pre-trial detention centres in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ofer Military Court in OPT approved the renewal of Khalida Jarrar’s administrative detention for another four months.

On 23 October, Krasnodar Regional Court ordered the release of lawyer Mikhail Benyash on bail, set at about USD 10,000.

Valquiria and her son Abel* fled Brazil and requested asylum in the US but were separated by US border authorities.

The families of 12 Saudi men sentenced to death after an unfair mass trial fear that their relatives could be executed.