Urgent Action: Rights lawyer detained without official charge in China
Sixty year old human rights lawyer criminally detained for nearly a month without any official information on the charges
Urgent Action: Ohio to execute 69-year-old ‘state-raised’ man
Alva Campbell, aged 69, is due to be executed in Ohio on 15 November. The governor can commute the death sentence.
Urgent Action: Man seized in Libya held incommunicado
A Libyan man facing capital charges in the USA was seized by US forces in Libya on 29 October and taken to a ship
Urgent Action Update: Environmental rights defender to appeal suspended sentence in Madagascar
Raleva has been released after being handed a two-year suspended sentence. He is appealing the sentence.
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defender in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was released, but remains at risk of detention.
Write for Rights 2017: Tadjadine Mahamat Babouri case sheet
Case sheet for Tadjadine Mahamat Babouri.
Urgent Action: Execution set after 26 years on death row in USA
Patrick Hannon is scheduled to be executed in Florida at 6pm on 8 November. He was convicted in July 1991.