Urgent Action: Former journalists charged with espionage
Two former journalists for US-based Radio Free Asia in Cambodia were detained on trumped-up charges of espionage
Urgent Action: Violent repression following elections
At least 13 people have reportedly been killed, scores of people detained and others injured
Urgent Action Update: Former POC feared to be in detention again
The whereabouts of Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains a mystery after he has been missing for over three months.
Urgent Action: Leader of peace community threatened
Paramilitary groups continue incursions and threats against the people of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó
Urgent Action Update: Confined communities in Riosucio, Chocó
Several Embera Indigenous communities and the Afro-descendent community of Taparal find themselves confined and terrified
Urgent Action Update: New convictions for “inciting debauchery”
16 individuals sentenced to three years in prison and three years’ probation for “debauchery”, raising the total to 49
Urgent Action update: Detained rights lawyer further ill-treated in China
Sixty-year-old human rights lawyer Li Yuhan reported to her lawyer that she was left unconscious and unattended for hours
Urgent Action: Papuan worker in Indonesia disappeared since 7 November
Martinus Beanal, a Papuan worker has disappeared since 7 November in the midst of alleged escalated armed clashes.
Urgent Action update: Kachin pastor sentenced to four years in prison in Myanmar
Kachin pastors Dumdaw Lat and Langjaw Seng have been sentenced under charges which AI believes are politically motivated.