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Nov 26 2018 12:02pm
Urgent Action: Opposition youth leader still detained one year on
Opposition youth leader Christian Lumu Lukusa has been in arbitrary de...
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 2:37pm
Urgent Action: Lawyer detained in undisclosed location
Human rights lawyer, Hoda Abdelmoniem, was arrested on 1 November 2018...
Nov 20 2018 5:10pm
Saudi Arabia: 'Horrendous' reports of torture and sexual harassment of detained activists
Several Saudi Arabian activists detained in the country’s Dhahban Pris...
Nov 20 2018 4:57pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender brutally attacked
Alfredo Okenve, an Equatorial Guinea human rights defender was brutall...
Nov 20 2018 11:05am
Urgent Action: NGOs in India at risk of shut down
Amnesty India and Greenpeace India have been targeted by the Governmen...
Nov 12 2018 3:15pm
Urgent Action Update: Lawmaker’s administrative detention renewed
Israel renews, for the third time and without charge or trial, the adm...
Nov 6 2018 11:55am
Urgent Action update: Ongoing punishment for prisoner of conscience in Vietnam
Human rights defender Trần Thị Nga is being punished by prison authori...
Nov 5 2018 2:49pm
Urgent Action: Journalists and activists threatened in Mozambique
Local journalists and civil society activists have received anonymous ...
Nov 1 2018 6:14pm
Egypt: at least 19 human rights activists arrested in 'chilling' new crackdown
‘Anyone who dares to speak out about human rights violations in Egypt ...