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Urgent Action good news: Activist released on bail after months in detention

Shahidul Alam, photographer and outspoken social activist, has been freed on permanent bail after 100 days behind bars.

2nd update on UA 146/18 issued 29/11/2018

Yemen Conflict: UK must stop arming Saudi Arabia petition

Petition calling on Secretary of State for International Trade Liam Fox to stop the UK supplying deadly weapons to Saudi

Yemen Conflict: UK must stop arming Saudi Arabia petition

Urgent Action: Opposition youth leader still detained one year on

Opposition youth leader Christian Lumu Lukusa has been in arbitrary detention since 22 November 2017.

UA 197/18 issued 23/11/2018

Urgent Action: Workers arrested for trying to set up trade union

Three factory workers and an NGO worker have been arrested for attempting to set up a trade union in China.

UA 200/18 issued 23/11/2018

Urgent Action update: NGO worker prison visit denied for months

Lee Ming-che, first foreign NGO worker detained after China’s new Foreign NGO Management Law came into effect.

4th update on UA 71/17 issued 21/11/2018

Local Group Financial Return Form 2018

A financial return form for 2018. To be filled out by all local group treasurers by February 28th.

Local Group Financial Return Form 2018

Urgent Action: Activists’ whereabouts unknown after arrest

Activists are being held incommunicado at an unknown location in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

UA 196/18 issued 20/11/2018

Urgent Action update: Acquitted former child soldier remains jailed

Former child solider Aung Ko Htwe was acquitted but remains in prison serving two years and six months on other charges.

1st update on UA 132/18 issued 15/11/2018

Urgent Action: Health of prisoner of conscience critical

Nguyễn Văn Túc health is quickly deteriorating to the point where he is fainting on a daily basis.

UA 195/18 issued 15/11/2018

Urgent Action: Nine umbrella movement leaders to stand trial

Nine leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests are being charged with three vague and ambiguous offences.

UA 191/18 issued 07/11/2018