Hearts and Lives Broken: The Nightmare of Uyghur Families Separated by Repression
Some Uyghur parents were separated from their children as a result of the unprecedented crackdown on ethnic populations.
Urgent Action Outcome: Four of five families freed from detention
Four of five families freed from detention.
Urgent Action Outcome: Deportation of Chechen man suspended
A.S., a Chechen man who was held in immigration detention in France was released on 20 February.
Urgent Action Outcome: Peaceful protester released after 16 months
Prisoner of conscience Konstantin Kotov, convicted for “violations of regulations of public assemblies” was released.
Urgent Action Outcome: Pastor Steven Tendo released from detention
Steven Tendo, 35-year-old pastor and asylum-seeker, released from detention.
Urgent Action outcome: Thirteen federal executions in six months
Three people, including one woman, were executed in the last week of the Trump administration.
Urgent Action outcome: Guinean pro-democracy activist is free
Saïkou Yaya Diallo, the legal coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution freed from prison.
Urgent action outcome: Opposition members released
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
Urgent Action outcome: Indigenous land defender receives protection
Paraguayan authorities opened an investigation and provided protection to Bernarda Pesoa leader of indigenous community.
Urgent Action Outcome: Human Rights Defenders Released
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released and are now safely home.