Urgent Action good news: Student leaders released in Burma
Phyoe Phyoe Aung and Lin Htet Naing were released on 8 April 2016 after charges against scores of students were dropped.
Urgent Action: Trade unionists receive death threats in Colombia
Human rights defenders and trade unionists in south-west Colombia are in danger after receiving death threats.
Urgent Action update: Kenneth Fults executed in Georgia USA
Kenneth Fults was executed by lethal injection on 12 April 2016 in the US state of Georgia.
Urgent Action update: Federal court stays execution of Ivan Teleguz in USA
Ivan Teleguz, a Ukrainian national, received a temporary stay of execution from the US Court of Appeals on 29 March 2016.
Urgent Action: Issa Al-Hamid at risk of lengthy prison sentence in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabian human rights defender Issa al-Hamid faces a lengthy prison sentence for his peaceful human rights activism.
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.