The Dominican Republic Senate was due to vote on 25 July on a reform to the Criminal Code which maintains the criminalization of abortion except where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.

Bahraini lawyer, Taimoor Karimi, was deported from Bahrain to Iraq on 26 June after his expulsion sentence was upheld by the Appeal Court on 23 May.

Two death row prisoners were moved on 24 and 25 July to Nusakambangan prison island, where 13 executions were carried out in 2015.

A spontaneous demonstration by ethnic and religious minority Ede in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam on 14 July was violently suppressed, resulting in injuries to around 20 demonstrators.

Five political activists; four from the Muttahida Quami Movement political party, one from the Pak Sarzameen Party, are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment while awaiting trial.

There is fear for the safety of Evan Mawarire, a pastor and leader of the #ThisFlag social media movement in Zimbabwe, who called for a national stay-away.

Four more activists from the anti-slavery organization Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement in Mauritania (IRA) were arrested on 8 and 9 July, just days after the arrest of nine others.

Loreom Joseph Longie who had been arbitrarily detained at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters in Jebel neighbourhood since September 2014, passed away on 17 July.

Yousef Abdallah Abker, a religious scholar, was arrested on 14 July by security agents after a sermon he gave in early July. He has been detained since then without any charge.

The Dominican Republic Congress voted on a new reform of the Criminal Code on 19 July. This new code regresses the rights of women and girls as it now only allows abortion where the pregnancy poses a risk to the life of a pregnant woman or girl.