Urgent Action update: Sentenced activist remains at risk of torture in China
Activist Wu Gan (better known by his pen name Tufu, ‘The Butcher’) was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
Urgent Action good news: Missing Bangladeshi academic returned home
Mubashar Hasan, a well-known Bangladeshi academic who went missing was returned home on 22 December, after 44 days.
Urgent Action: Environmental activists arbitrarily jailed in Cambodia
Two environmental activists were arrested in Cambodia for filming two vessels they suspected of illegally exporting sand.
Urgent Action: Mother loses custody of kids for son's long hair in Russia
Russian authorities have removed seven children from their adoptive mother after she allowed their hair to grow long.
End Action: Poland's President approves judicial overhaul bills
On 8 December, Poland’s Parliament passed two bills which increase the government’s control of the judiciary.
Urgent Action: Head of dissolved main opposition party jailed
On 3 September, Kem Sokha, president of the dissolved main opposition party, was arrested at his house in Tuol Kork
Urgent Action: Egypt continues to arrest government critics
On 16 November, security agents in plain clothes arrested Egyptian social media figure Islam al-Refaei
Urgent Action: Venezuela to run out of antiretrovirals in 2018
The government has reportedly not yet signed an urgently needed order for the purchase of vital antiretroviral medication
Urgent Action Update: Violence against protestors escalates
At least 20 people have reportedly been killed, hundreds detained and others injured following the repression of protests
Urgent Action: 14 dead as a result of the Syrian government siege
14 individuals have died since July in Eastern Ghouta, as the Syrian government blocks their medical evacuation