Urgent Action: Journalist risks death penalty for tweets in Saudi Arabia
Journalist and prisoner of conscience, Alaa Brinji is on trial charged with apostasy and risks being sentenced to death.
Urgent Action: Journalist Jia Jia feared detained in China
Prominent journalist Jia Jia, who called for President Xi Jinping to resign, went missing while he was at the Beijing airport.
Urgent Action: Stop amendment banning same-sex marriage in Georgia
Proposed change to Georgia's constitution will define marriage explicitly as between a man and a woman.
Urgent Action: Ten civil society activists harassed in Sudan
Activists at the centre for Training and Human Development in Khartoum had to report daily to the security services.
Urgent Action good news: 9 peaceful protestors released in DRC
Two LUCHA activists were released from prison and seven others were acquitted of charges of organising an illegal demonstration.
Urgent Action update: Elderly Professor's six-year jail term upheld in Iran
Prisoner of conscience Hossein Rafiee, a retired university professor, has had his six-year prison sentence upheld on appeal.
Urgent Action: 13 detainees detail abuse and torture in Malaysia
At least 13 detainees have reported torture or other ill-treatment by the authorities and sexual harassment of their families.
Urgent Action update: Juvenile offender threatened in Iran
Saman Naseem has been put under pressure to do a video interview and threatened with execution, if he fails to comply.
Urgent Action: Human rights defender killed and others harassed in Honduras
Human right defender Nelson García was killed on 15 March 2016 following the murder of Berta Cáceres on 3 March 2016.
Urgent Action update: Whereabouts of four miners still unknown in Venezuela
The bodies of 17 informal gold miners reported as missing were found by the authorities, but four others are still missing.