The whereabouts of two missing activists, Tang Zhishun and Xing Qingxian, are finally known after their family members revealed arrest notices dated 4 May.

Omani writer, journalist and human rights activist Sulaiman al-Ma’mari was released without charge on 19 May, following 22 days detained in solitary confinement.

Lebanese national and permanent US resident Nizar Zakka has been held in solitary confinement in Tehran’s Evin Prison since his arrest on 18 September 2015.

A Papuan political activist arrested on 5 April as a result of his peaceful political activities has been suffering from chest pain and frequent headaches due to poor detention conditions.

Dr Nasser bin Ghaith appeared before the State Security Chamber of the Federal Supreme Court in Abu Dhabi on 2 May. His case has been adjourned until 23 May.

Eighty-one-year-old Bangladeshi journalist and editor Shafik Rehman is in poor health in Kashimpur Central Jail outside of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

Prominent human rights defender Valentina Cherevatenko has been repeatedly summoned by an investigator and may become the first to be criminally prosecuted under the “foreign agents law”.

British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe has been detained in an undisclosed detention centre in Kerman, southern Iran, since 3 April

Yang Maodong started a hunger strike on 9 May to protest his humiliating and threatening treatment by the authorities

At least 24 people have been arrested since 17 May in different parts of Kazakhstan and have been sentenced to administrative detention