Urgent Action: Activist faces 14 years in jail for media interview in Bangladesh
Shahidul Alam, photographer and social activist, has been charged after giving an interview to Al-Jazeera.
Urgent Action: Journalist accused of ‘justification of terrorism’ in Russia
Victor Korb, a human rights defender and journalist, is being unjustly prosecuted for “public justification of terrorism”
Urgent Action: Detained activist detained access to lawyer in South Sudan
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, was arrested by the National Security Service (NSS).
Urgent Action good news: Indigenous leader ends 2 month hunger strike in Chile
After nearly two months on a hunger strike, Indigenous leader Machi Córdova is granted access to his ceremonial altar.
Urgent Action update: 42 months in China prison for forcibly returned activist
According to a Chinese media report, Dong Guangping was sentenced to 42 months in prison almost one year after his trial
Urgent Action good news: Indonesian activist released, appeal against conviction ongoing
Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, known as Budi Pego, was released from prison on 1 July 2018.
Urgent Action update: Youth activists risk three years imprisonment in DRC
After more than 160 days in incommunicado detention, four pro-democracy youth activists were charged.
Urgent Action: Road to be built over individual and mass graves in Iran
The authorities are destroying the individual and mass graves of of political dissidents who were killed in Ahvaz.