A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body parts are being sold for use in ritual purposes.

A teenage boy with albinism from Malawi who went missing on 24 April has been found dead in Mozambique with his hands and feet chopped off. Thousands of people with albinism live in constant fear of being abducted or killed in Malawi, where their body parts are being sold for use in ritual purposes.

Rayhana al-Mousawi, one of two women protesters at the 2013 Bahrain Grand Prix, has been released as part of a royal pardon on 20 April.

This month we are focussing on Khadija Esmayilova, an award-winning investigative journalist and outspoken government critic in Azerbaijan who has been locked up by the authorities for exposing corruption. She is a prisoner of conscience and must be released immediately.

The Supreme Court of Belarus upheld the death sentence of Gennadii Yakovitskii on 4 April. He is now at imminent risk of execution.

Twenty-seven-year-old Belén has been held in pre-trial detention for over two years in northern Argentina, after suffering a miscarriage in a public hospital.

Azerbaijani human rights defenders and former prisoners of conscience Leyla Yunus and Arif Yunus were allowed to travel to the Netherlands

Prominent human rights defender, Dr Ahmed Abdullah, was arrested at his home and
beaten on 25 April

A 15 year old boy with albinism went missing on 24 April.

Mahdi ‘Issa Mahdi Abu Dheeb, has been released after completing a five-year prison sentence.