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
Urgent Action: Five years imprisonment and fine in Indonesia for facebook post
Five years imprisonment for Facebook posts deemed to be insulting of Islam and for allegedly spreading ‘hate speech'
Urgent Action: Clampdown on free expression in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico authorities responded violently to demonstrations on 1 May by repressing protesters
Urgent Action Update: Man in Slovakia at risk of imminent extradition to Russia
Aslan Yandiev is once again at risk of imminent extradition following the decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court
Urgent Action update: Administrative detention term extended for activist in India
Human rights defender Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ has been held in administrative detention for over six months.
Urgent Action: Urge US Governor not to veto abolition bill
A bill abolishing the death penalty in the US state of New Hampshire, is due go to the Governor.
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.