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.
Urgent Action good news: Russian court whistleblower released
Former court secretary and whistleblower Aleksandr Eivazov was released on 21 July.
Urgent Action update: Six more hanged in unprecedented execution spree in Japan
Following the executions of 7 members of Aum Shinrikyo (Aum), the remaining 6 men sentenced to death were hanged.
Urgent Action: Thousands of residents’ risk forced eviction in Kenya
Approximately 3,000 residents of the Deep Sea informal settlement in Nairobi are at imminent risk of forced eviction.