10 people, seven of whom are Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), were arrested by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) in Darfur on 31 July.

The first two Syrian refugees that became at risk of being forcibly returned to Turkey under the illegal EU-Turkey deal have now been released from detention. A court has also ordered the suspension of their deportation.

Lawyer Ren Quanniu, who was criminally detained on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”, has been released on bail. Please stop sending appeals at this time.

Twenty-three Sahrawi defendants, including 21 prisoners sentenced to jail after a grossly unfair trial by a military court in 2013, are to face re-trial before a civilian court.

Alfred Taban, prominent journalist and chief editor of the daily English newspaper, Juba Monitor, was released on bail on 29 July. No court date has been set for his trial.

The prosecutor at the head of the investigation into the charges against those responsible for the forced sterilization of over 2,000 peasant and Indigenous women living in poverty has ruled to close the majority of the cases

Hundreds of criminal suspects allegedly linked to the drug trade have been killed since June 30, the day President Duterte took office in the Philippines. Some of these cases may amount to extrajudicial executions.

Islam Khalil, who was subjected to enforced disappearance for 122 days, has been tortured in detention and placed in solitary confinement after he spoke out against putting more detainees in his already overcrowded cell.

Bidun human rights defender ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli was released from Kuwait Central prison on 2 August after serving the remainder of a three month prison sentence for “misusing his phone”.

Jailed Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) has been on hunger strike since 9 May in protest of his ill-treatment by the authorities.