On 17 June the Governorship of Istanbul announced that the Trans Pride and the Istanbul Pride marches, planned for 19 and 26 June respectively, were banned for security reasons.

Around 300 Roma people living in the Masseria del Pozzo camp in Naples, in southern Italy, are at imminent risk of being moved to poor and inadequate housing.

Three human rights activists face up to five years’ imprisonment and fines of up to 300,000 baht (US $8,400) for documenting torture in Thailand.

Zainab al-Khawaja and her son were released from prison in Bahrain on humanitarian grounds on 31 May. She left Bahrain for Denmark on 7 June after receiving information that she could face new charges if she remained in Bahrain.

Prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was returned to Tehran’s Evin Prison on 7 June after he went on prison leave following his mother’s death.

A Cairo court has confirmed a request to freeze the assets of Al-Andalus Institute for Tolerance and anti-Violence Studies and its director Ahmed Samih.

Human rights defender Abdulaziz al-Shubaily has been convicted and sentenced on 29 May to eight years in prison by the Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh for his peaceful human rights activism.

Qin Wei, a Falun Gong practitioner, was taken into police custody after he distributed commentary criticizing the Chinese Communist Party. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

Syrian refugee Fadi Mansour finally reunited with his family in Melbourne, Australia, on 11 June.

A federal judge in Mexico has ruled in favour of Indigenous rights defender Ildefonso Zamora who has been in prison since November 2015. The Attorney General should now accept that the case is baseless and refrain from appealing the ruling. This will be a key step towards securing Zamora’s release.