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Detention and Imprisonment (187)
Aug 2 2019 3:22pm
Urgent Action: Newspaper editor detained without charge
On 15 July 2019, Michael Rial Christopher, a 40-year-old South Sudanes...
Aug 1 2019 12:28pm
Urgent Action update: Uyghur activist’s 30 relatives still detained
Up to 30 relatives of Uyghur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, who ...
Aug 1 2019 11:29am
Urgent Action update: Arbitrarily detained couple remains held
On 3 July 2019, a judge ordered the release of Ola al-Qaradawi after o...
Jul 29 2019 4:29pm
Urgent Action update: Jailed Crimean Tatar’s health still at risk
On 3 July a court in Russian - occupied Crimea rejected Edem Bekirov’s...
Jul 29 2019 12:15pm
Urgent Action: Security agent ill-treated in detention
Ding Ding Mou, a South Sudanese security agent, is detained at the Riv...
May 15 2019 5:18pm
Urgent Action sad news: Prisoner dies of cancer in detention
On 4 May 2019, Alia Abdelnoor Mohamed Abdelnoor, who was in the termin...
Dec 21 2018 4:01pm
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking academic in critical condition
Dr Nasser bin Ghaith’s health has severely deteriorated. The prominent...
Nov 26 2018 10:58am
Urgent Action update: NGO worker prison visit denied for months
Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che, the first foreign NGO worker detained...
Nov 22 2018 4:25pm
Urgent Action update: Acquitted former child soldier remains jailed
Former child solider Aung Ko Htwe has been acquitted of the latest in ...
Nov 22 2018 11:45am
Urgent Action update: Life sentence for Bahraini opposition leader
On 4 November 2018, the Bahraini Appeal Court sentenced opposition lea...