On 17 July, Cairo Criminal Court is due to review a judicial order to freeze the assets of five leading human rights defenders (HRDs), members of their family, an NGO and their staff.

Two prisoners of conscience remain in arbitrary detention in Dapaong, Northern Togo. The Appeal Court of Kara on 6 June rejected their request to be released on bail.

The court martial of 23 members of the Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) for mutiny charges has been postponed to 6 September. Sixteen of the accused remain in custody. The authorities continue to subject the detainees to ill-treatment.

Hasnat Karim and his family survived a hostage attack in a restaurant. They were taken into custody for questioning. His family were released, but he has not been seen since 2 July.

John Conner, a 60-year-old man who has been on death row in Georgia for 34 years, is scheduled to be executed on 14 July.

John Conner, a 60-year-old man who has been on death row in Georgia for 34 years, is scheduled to be executed on 14 July.

Two bloggers who compiled and released data on protests in China were criminally detained on 15 June 2016 on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.

16 of the 17 Angolan youth activists were conditionally released following the Supreme Court’s decision on the habeas corpus. Nito Alves was later conditionally released following a Constitutional Court decision.

The right to justice of thousands of women - mainly peasant, Indigenous and Quechua-speaking women – who were sterilized against their will is at risk, after authorities failed to file charges against those responsible before the legal deadline passed.

On the day of the banned Istanbul Pride march on 26 June, police used tear gas and plastic bullets against small groups of LGBTI activists.