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May 29 2019 5:24pm
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience ends hunger strike
Human rights defender Ahmed Mansoor ended a month-long hunger strike i...
May 29 2019 2:36pm
Urgent Action update: Bedouin leader rejects conditional release
Prominent Bedouin leader Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi’s early re...
May 24 2019 3:02pm
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience tortured to confess
Journalist and human rights defender Nguyen Van Hoa was convicted and ...
May 23 2019 12:22pm
Russia: Jehovah's Witness' appeal against six-year jail sentence rejected
Danish national Dennis Christensen is a prisoner of conscience jailed ...
May 10 2019 1:48pm
Urgent Action good news: Prisoner of conscience released
On 7 March 2019, Algerian blogger and prisoner of conscience Merzoug T...
May 9 2019 4:23pm
Urgent Action outcome: Activist released after being rearrested
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was released on 29 April after ha...
May 3 2019 4:24pm
Urgent Action correction: Prisoner denied full medical check-up
We are extending the appeal deadline for Bahraini prisoner of conscien...
May 1 2019 9:54am
Urgent Action outcome: Mikhail Tsakunov released, trial ongoing
Prisoner of conscience Mikhail Tsakunov was released under travel rest...
Apr 24 2019 11:29am
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist formally charged
Journalist Amade Abubacar has formally been charged with the crimes of...
Apr 17 2019 1:33pm
Urgent Action update: Disappeared activist at risk of torture
Gao Zhisheng, a former prisoner of conscience and human rights lawyer,...