Urgent Action: Peaceful protester in pre-trial detention in Russia
On 7 May, Dzerzhinsky District Court in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, remanded Mikhail Tsakunov in pre-trial detention.
Urgent Action: Up to 20 years in Maldives prison on trumped-up charges
Ahmed Mahloof faces charges including “terrorism” and “obstruction of police duty” for taking part in peaceful protests.
Urgent Action update: Civil activist released from psychiatric facility in Kazakhstan
Ardak Ashym has been released from the psychiatric facility. The criminal investigation against her is still ongoing.
Urgent Action: Human rights activist unable to leave Equatorial Guinea
Ramón Esono Ebalé remains unable to leave Equatorial Guinea due to authorities failing to provide him with a passport.
Urgent Action good news: Activist's not guilty verdict upheld on appeal in South Korea
Lee Jin-young, operator of the online library ‘Labour Books’, was found not guilty.
Urgent Action good news: Israeli government stops forced deportations
The Israeli government has declared that it will not pursue forcible deportations of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers
Urgent Action update: Poet under illegal house arrest in China ‘prepared to die’
Liu Xia, widow of late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, said that she is prepared to die in recent conversation
Urgent Action Update: Yet another environmental defender killed in Colombia
In less than a week, two members of the Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers) Movement have been killed in Antioquia, Colombia
Urgent Action: Environmental defender killed in Colombia, others at risk
A member of the Ríos Vivos (Living Rivers) Movement was killed on the same day the group carried out an all-day march
Urgent Action: Two Afro-descendant defenders criminalized in Colombia
Community leaders and human rights defenders have been unjustly detained and accused of charges they did not commit.