Urgent Action good news: Women’s rights activists no longer at imminent risk in Ukraine
Vitaliana Koval and other defenders in Ukraine are no longer considered to be facing an imminent threat of violence.
Urgent Action good news: Prisoner of conscience released in Bahrain
On 26 March, political activist and prisoner of conscience, Fadhel Abbas Mahdi Mohamed was released from Jaw prison.
Urgent Action update: Fears for detained human rights defender's life in China
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang” is seriously ill.
Urgent Action update: Iranian Kurd at imminent risk of execution
Iranian Kurdish prisoner Ramin Hossein Panahi is scheduled to be executed on 3 May.
Urgent Action good news: Supreme Court orders journalist's release in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of Aziz Orujov, an independent journalist and CEO of channel Canal 13.
Urgent Action: Ankara Pride march must be allowed to go ahead
A student-organised Pride march, is due to take place on 12 May is at risk of being blocked by the authorities.
Urgent Action update: Human rights defenders sentenced to 10 years in Burundi
Three human rights defenders from Burundi were sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Urgent Action update: Burundi human rights defender held in pre-trial detention
Burundian human rights defender Nestor Nibitanga has spent more than five months in pre-trial detention.
Urgent Action: Civil activist detained in Kazakhstan psychiatric facility
Ardak Ashym, a blogger and civil activist from Shymkent, south Kazakhstan, has been detained in a psychiatric facility.
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience's release blocked in Venezuela
Two have been arbitrarily detained in custody of the Bolivarian National Intelligence Service.