Urgent Action update: Texas conducts its eight execution of 2018
Christopher Young was executed in Texas on the evening of 17 July.
Urgent Action update: First Ohio execution in 10 months goes ahead
Robert Van Hook was executed in Ohio on the morning of 18 July. He had been on death row for 33 years for a murder.
Urgent Action update: Risk of torture for man extradited to Russia
Aslan Yandiev was extradited to Russia. He is is in poor health and is at grave risk of torture and an unfair trial.
Urgent Action: Chilean lawyer intimdated during trial of policemen
Karina Riquelme was followed and surveilled by intelligence agents because of her work as a defender of Mapuche people.
Urgent Action update: Gravely ill detainee sentenced to 7 years in Moldova jail
A court sentenced Serghei Cosovan to 7 years in jail, disregarding his inability to access essential medical care.
Urgent Action: Former child soldier jailed in Myanmar after media interview
Former child solider Aung Ko Htwe is serving two years and six months in prison in connection with a media interview.
Urgent Action update: Seven men executed, six others at imminent risk in Japan
Seven members of Aum Shinrikyo cult were executed without prior notice. Six other men are at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent Action: Fate and whereabouts of policeman unknown in Belarus
Former Chechen policeman Artur Aydamirov, 34, disappeared on 8 June in Brest, Belarus.
Urgent Action good news: Court blocks Nevada execution after company sues
A judge blocked the State of Nevada from carrying out its first execution in 12 years.
Urgent Action: Students in Turkey detained for insulting the president
Four students in Turkey have been detained over a banner containing caricatures of President Erdoğan.