Urgent action outcome: Opposition members released
Political activists Brigitte Kafui Adjamagbo and Gérard Yaovi Djossou were released from detention on 17 December 2020.
1st update on UA 171/20
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Urgent Action outcome: Indigenous land defender receives protection
Paraguayan authorities opened an investigation and provided protection to Bernarda Pesoa leader of indigenous community.
1st update on UA 160/20
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.
1st update on UA 166/20
Urgent Action Outcome: Crimean Tatar rights defender sentenced
Server Mustafayev, a Crimean Tatar human rights defender, was sentenced by a Russian military court on 16 September.
4th update on UA 150/19
Urgent Action Outcome: Activist returned to Pakistan and released
Geelaman Pashteen, human rights activist and supporter of Pakistan’s Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) was released.
1st update on UA 11/20
Urgent Action outcome: Bill restricting safe access to abortion rejected
On 20 October, the Slovak Parliament rejected a bill that would have further obstructed access to safe abortion care.
1st update on UA 128/20
Urgent Action outcome: PIKPA refugee shelter closed down
The eviction of the PIKPA refugee shelter in Lesvos was carried out in the morning of 30 October.
1st update on UA 152/20
Urgent Action outcome: Legal abortion closer than ever
Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez publicly committed to present a bill to Congress to legalise abortion.
1st update on UA 163/20
Urgent Action outcome: Yana Antonova sentenced to community service
Yana Antonova, a pediatrician and a human rights defender from Krasnodar, southern Russia, was convicted on 2 October.
2nd update on UA 154/19
Urgent Action outcome: Azimjan Azkarov died in prison
Azimjan Askarov died on 25 July in prison in Kyrgyzstan after showing symptoms of Covid-19.
1st update on UA 61/20