Urgent action outcome: Opposition members released
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
Paraguayan authorities opened an investigation and provided protection to Bernarda Pesoa leader of indigenous community.
On 3 December 2020, Gasser Abdel Razek, Karim Ennarah and Mohamed Basheer were released and are now safely home.
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentenced by a Russian military court on 16 September.
Geelaman Pashteen, human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was released.
On 20 October, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill that would have further obstructed access to safe abortion care.
The eviction of the PIKPA refugee shelter in Lesvos was carried out in the morning of 30 October.
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez publicly committed to present a bill to Congress to legalise abortion.
Yana Antonova, a pediatrician and a human rights defender from Krasnodar, southern Russia, was convicted on 2 October.
Azimjan Askarov died on 25 July in prison in Kyrgyzstan after showing symptoms of Covid-19.