Urgent Action update: Detained religious leader denied family visits in Sudan
Matar Hussein, a visually impaired religious teacher, has been transferred from Kober Prison to a detention centre.
Urgent Action: Indigenous people threatened and displaced in Colombia
Over 200 indigenous Nasa Embera Chamí are currently displaced following an armed attack to a member of their community.
Urgent Action: Environmental activist imprisoned in Cuba
Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, an environmental activist, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt.
Urgent Action: Grave health concerns for detainee with cirrhosis in Moldova
Moldovan businessman Serghei Cosovan is unable to access essential health care in pre-trial detention for his cirrhosis.
Urgent Action: Free trans asylum seeker from detention in USA
Alejandra fled attacks and extortion based on her transgender identity in El Salvador and requested asylum in the US.
Urgent Action update: Turkish university students released but allege torture
14 Boğaziçi University students were released. Their allegations of torture and other ill-treatment must be investigated.
Urgent Action good news: Palestinian prisoner of conscience released
On 6 June, Palestinian activist and human rights defender, Munther Amira was released from Hadarim Prison in Israel.
Urgent Action update: Nabeel Rajab's prison sentence upheld on appeal in Bahrain
Prominent human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab had his five-year prison sentence upheld.
Urgent Action update: Family of prisoner of conscience in Cuba denied visits
Cuban authorities have suspended family visiting rights of human rights defender, Dr Eduardo Cardet, for six months.
Urgent Action update: Two more land defenders killed in Guatemala
Human rights defenders Florencio Pérez Nájera and Alejandro Hernández García from CODECA were violently murdered.