
Urgent Action: Detained media workers charged with defamation in Myanmar
Two media workers have been detained and charged with “online defamation’’ in connection with a satirical article mocking the Myanmar Army. They each face up to three years’ imprisonment if found guilty and convicted.

Urgent Action: Syrian Kurdish activists arbitrarily detained
Syrian Kurdish opposition activists Mohsen Taher, Amin Hussam and Bashar Amin have been arrested by the Asayish, the police force of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)-led Autonomous Administration, in the north-eastern region of Syria.

Urgent Action: Indigenous defenders attacked and at risk in Guatemala
Aura Lolita Chávez, a renowned Guatemalan human rights defender and Indigenous leader, and members of her organization the K’iche People’s Council (CPK) were threatened and attacked by unidentified armed men.

Urgent Action update: Natalya Sharina victim of travesty of justice in Russian Federation
On 5 June, Natalya Sharina, ex-Director of the Ukrainian Library in Moscow, was found guilty of “incitement of hatred and enmity” and “embezzlement” and given four years suspended sentence.

Urgent Action good news: Torture survivor released in Chechnya
Murad Amriev was handed over to Russian law enforcement officers at 3am on 9 June after having been returned from Belarus where he unsuccessfully attempted to claim asylum. He has been released on bail on condition that he does not leave Chechnya.

Urgent Action update: Release Chechen man returned to Russia
Chechen torture survivor Murad Amriev was handed over to the Russian authorities by Belarusian police at 3am on 9 June in what amounts to a rendition.

Urgent Action update: NGO leader charged under 'foreign agents’ law in Russian Federation
On 2 June, prominent Russian human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko was officially charged with “malicious evasion from performance of duties” under the “foreign agents” law.

Urgent Action: Activists detained for shoe factory research in China
Three labour activists who were conducting undercover research investigations into the labour conditions at Huajian shoe factories, which supply to Ivanka Trump’s brand among others, were taken away by the authorities in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province in late May.

Urgent Action: Hundreds stranded at Mexico–Guatemala border
Approximately 400 people from rural Guatemala are stranded at the Mexico-Guatemala border in temporary shelters and tents, without adequate access to water, food, or medical supplies, after a Guatemalan court order was executed to evict them.

Update Belarus: Chechen man at risk if extradited from Belarus
Chechen torture survivor Murad Amriev was detained on the night of 7 June as he attempted to enter Belarus. The Chechen authorities have asked for his extradition to Russia to face charges in Grozny, the Chechen capital.