Urgent Action update: Eight Lebanese men await verdict
On 3 April 2019, eight Lebanese men appeared before the state security Chamber of the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi.
Urgent Action: Jerusalemite journalist at risk of deportation
Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa al-Kharouf has been arbitrarily detained at Givon prison in Ramle, in central Israel.
Urgent Action good news: Arbitrarily detained Egyptian activist released
Egyptian activist Islam Khalil was released on probation after more than a year in arbitrary detention.
Urgent Action: Activist rearrested on fabricated charges
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was detained on 30 March and sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention.
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist yet to be charged
On 5 April, Journalist Amade Abubacar will have spent 90 days in detention. He has yet to be formally charged.
Urgent Action update: Thirteen protesters freed, fifty held arbitrarily
Judge ordered the provisional release of 13 protesters ruling that their arrest without a warrant was illegal.
Urgent Action bad news: Executions not resumed after prisoner found dead
State of Nevada did not resume executions after individual on death row found dead in his cell of an "apparent suicide".
Urgent Action update: Journalist arrested twice in 6 weeks
Maria Ressa, human rights defender and executive editor of online news outlet Rappler, was arrested again on 29 March.