Urgent Action update: Independent journalist in Uzbekistan must be immediately released
The family of independent journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was allowed to see him for the first time in three months.
Urgent Action update: Execution imminent after death sentence upheld in Belarus
The death sentences of Ihar Hershankou and Siamion Berazhnoy were upheld by the Supreme Court of Belarus.
Urgent Action: Indigenous community in Kenya forcibly evicted
Kenyan authorities are forcibly evicting the Sengwer Indigenous community from their ancestral home, the Embobut forest.
Urgent Action: Attack against indigenous defender in Ecuador
Patricia Gualinga, Indigenous human rights defender, reported that on 5 January an unknown man attacked her home.
Urgent Action update: Egyptian activists sentenced for peacefully protesting
Human rights activist Mahienour el-Masry sentenced along with labour activist Moatasem Medhat to two years in prison.
Urgent Action: More activists detained for Liu Xiaobo memorial
Activists have been detained due to their participation in the July 2017 memorial for late Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Urgent Action: Human rights defender detained in Chechnya
On 9 January, police arbitrarily arrested Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev. He remains in detention.
Urgent Action: Two journalists face up to 14 years in Myanmar prison
Two journalists are facing up to 14 years in prison in connection with their peaceful journalistic activities
Urgent Action: Medical practitioner held incommunicado in China
Shafkat Abasi, a member of the Tatar ethnic minority, was detained on 13 March of 2017 and has not been heard from since