Urgent Action: Activist on trial for planning protest in Chad
Dr. Albissaty Salhe Alazam faces trial on 18 April 2016 for organising a peaceful protest in N’Djamena, Chad.
Urgent Action Iran: Teenager faces imminent execution
A 19-year old Iranian man has been scheduled for execution on 16 April for an offence committed when he was under 18 years of age. He has been put in solitary confinement in Rasht’s Lakan Prison in advance of the execution.
Alireza Pour Olfat
Urgent Action update: Two labour activists still detained in China
Labour activists Zeng Feiyang and Meng Han are in detention for defending workers’ rights in Guangdong province.
Urgent Action update: Man forcibly returned to United Arab Emirates facing trial
Emirati national Abdulrahman Bin Sobeih who was forcibly returned to United Arab Emirates faces trial on unknown charges.
Urgent Action good news: Two Libyan men released in United Arab Emirates
Mo’ad Mohammad al-Hashmi al-Harari and Adel Rajeb Nasef, were acquitted of all charges and released in March 2016.
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience starts hunger strike in Iran
Prisoner of conscience Saeed Shirzad started a hunger strike on 31 March 2016 in protest at prison conditions.
Urgent Action: Chechen man forcibly disappeared in Russia
Khusein Betelgeriev, has been missing since being taken by uniformed men from his home in Grozny on 31 March 2015.
Urgent Action: NGOs in Egypt face unprecedented crackdown
The Egyptian government has closed a torture-rehabilitation centre and human rights defenders have faced harassment.
Urgent Action: Authorities intimidating relatives of disappeared in Mexico
Public officials in Chihuahua, North Mexico have intimidated relatives of disappeared people.
Urgent Action: Tibetan education advocate detained in China
Tashi Wangchuk, who advocates for Tibetan language education has been detained and charged with inciting separatism.